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Daddy Long Legs

film by Negulesco [1955]

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  • Negulesco, Jean
    In Jean Negulesco: Millionaire and Three Coins

    …Fred Astaire in the musical Daddy Long Legs (1955), about a rich playboy who secretly puts a French orphan (Leslie Caron) through school. Negulesco’s other notable films from the decade include The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)—an adaptation of a novel by Louis Bromfield, starring Lana Turner, Richard Burton, and MacMurray—and…

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