Daddy Long Legs(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.
Movie: Daddy Long Legs
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Jervis Pendleton III
Julie Andre
Linda Pendleton
Alicia Pritchard
Griggs
Sally McBride
Ambassador Alexander Williamson
Gertrude Pendleton
Jimmy McBride
Himself
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