Daddy Long Legs (1955 film)

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Daddy Long Legs
Directed by	Jean Negulesco
Screenplay by	Henry Ephron Phoebe Ephron
Based on	Daddy-Long-Legs 1912 novel 1914 play by Jean Webster
Produced by	Samuel G. Engel
Starring	Fred Astaire Leslie Caron Terry Moore Thelma Ritter Fred Clark
Cinematography	Leon Shamroy
Edited by	William H. Reynolds
Music by	Alex North (ballet music) Alfred Newman Cyril J. Mockridge (score) Ken Darby (vocal supervision) Edward B. Powell Billy May Earle Hagen Skip Martin Bernard Mayers (orchestrations)
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	May 4, 1955 (1955-05-04)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.6 million[1]
Box office	$2.5 million (US rentals)[2]

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.

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 fashion for French-themed musicals established by ardent Francophile Gene Kelly with An American in Paris (1951), which also featured Kelly's protégée Caron. Like The Band Wagon, Daddy Long Legs did only moderately well at the box office.