Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)

Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)
Daddy Long Legs
Directed by Alfred Santell
Written by Novel:
Jean Webster
Screenplay:
S.N. Behrman
Sonya Levien
Alfred Santell
Starring Janet Gaynor
Warner Baxter
Una Merkel
John Arledge
Music by Hugo Friedhofer
Cinematography Lucien N. Andriot
Editing by Ralph Dietrich
Studio Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s) June 5, 1931 (1931-06-05)
Running time 80 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Daddy Long Legs (1931) is a film about an orphan who is taken under the wing of a wealthy benefactor. The original story, written in 1912 by Jean Webster, took in the social aspects of the wealthy compared with the upbringing optained in an orphanage. Though suffering under a tough matron, Judy Abbott (Janet Gaynor) manages to adapt to her environment through intelligence and hard work. Wealthy Jervis Pendleton (Warner Baxter), who is the benefactor, finds that he can't help admiring his young charge, even though he can't let her know who he really is. A relationship develops between the two through Jervis' niece, who is Judy's room mate.

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Other versions of the Jean Webster novel:

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