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Daddy Long Legs

6.4 126 mins Music   Romance   1955
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Jean Negulesco

Release Date: 05 Thu, May 1955

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

Casts of Daddy Long Legs

Fred Astaire

as Jervis Pendleton III

Leslie Caron

as Julie Andre

Terry Moore

as Linda Pendleton

Thelma Ritter

as Alicia Pritchard

Fred Clark

as Griggs

Charlotte Austin

as Sally McBride

Larry Keating

as Alexander Williamson

Kathryn Givney

as Gertrude Pendleton

Kelly Brown

as Jimmy McBride

Ray Anthony

as Ray Anthony

Gertrude Astor

as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Barrie Chase

as Blonde Dancer (uncredited)

Lisa Montell

as College Girl (uncredited)

Leslie Parrish

as College Girl (uncredited)

Pat Sheehan

as College Girl (uncredited)

Sara Shane

as Pat (uncredited)

Evelyn Rudie

as Codene (uncredited)

Liliane Montevecchi

as College Girl (uncredited)

Diane Jergens

as College Girl (uncredited)

Ann Codee

as Madame Sevanne (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

as Airport Passenger (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

as Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

as Graduation Attendee (uncredited)

Suzanne Alexander

as College Girl (uncredited)

Helen Van Tuyl

as College Dean (uncredited)

Jean Moorhead

as College Girl (uncredited)

Numa Lapeyre

as Jean (uncredited)

Marco LĂłpez

as Extra (uncredited)

Joi Lansing

as Blonde (uncredited)

Thurl Ravenscroft

as Jervis Pendleton III (Singing) (Uncredited)

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