--- title: 'Daddy Long Legs (1955)' type: 'film' director: 'Jean Negulesco' released: '1955-01-01' runtime_minutes: 124 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/daddy-long-legs-1955' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047969/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Daddy Long Legs (1955) 1955 · 124 min · Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Daddy Long Legs (1955) is a musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of Walston, Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, 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 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jean Negulesco](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-negulesco) - **Screenplay:** [Nora Ephron](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-ephron), [Phoebe Ephron](https://cinepixo.com/people/phoebe-ephron), [Henry Ephron](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-ephron) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alex North](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-north) - **Producer:** [Samuel G. Engel](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-g-engel) - **Director of Photography:** [Leon Shamroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-shamroy) - **Editor:** [William H. Reynolds](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-h-reynolds) ## Cast - [Terry Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-moore) - [Fred Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-clark) - [Larry Keating](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-keating) - [Ann Codee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-codee) - [Kathryn Givney](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathryn-givney) - [Leslie Caron](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-caron) - [Fred Astaire](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-astaire) - [Thelma Ritter](https://cinepixo.com/people/thelma-ritter) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/daddy-long-legs-1955 Film facts: Wikidata (Q973616); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.