Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts. It stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco.
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Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts. It stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco.
It was one of Astaire's personal favorites, largely due to the script which, for once, directly addresses the complications inherent in a love affair between a young woman and a man thirty years her senior. However, the making of it was marred by his wife's death from lung cancer. Deeply traumatized, Astaire offered to pay the production expenses already incurred in order to quit the project, but then changed his mind.
This was the first of three consecutive Astaire films set in France or with a French theme (the others being Funny Face and Silk Stockings), following the...
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