Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)
| Daddy Long Legs | |
|---|---|
Fox Film Corporation | |
Release date | June 5, 1931 |
Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $987,000 (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1] |
Daddy Long Legs (1931) is an American pre-Code film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter. The story involves an orphan who is taken under the wing of a wealthy benefactor.[2]
The original story, written in 1912 by Jean Webster, compared the childhood of the wealthy to that of orphanage children. Although suffering under a tough matron, Judy Abbott (Janet Gaynor) manages to cope and help the other orphans through intelligence and hard work, and the wealthy Jervis Pendleton (Warner Baxter), who is the benefactor, can't help admiring his young charge. Yet, she doesn't know it's he who is sponsoring her schooling, even when they meet, through Jervis' niece, who is Judy's roommate, and the girl, who was once alone, has to choose between their growing affection and a younger suitor.[3]
Cast
- Janet Gaynor as Judy Abbott
- Warner Baxter as Jervis Pendleton
- Una Merkel as Sally McBride
- John Arledge as Jimmy McBride
- Claude Gillingwater as Riggs
- Effie Ellsler as Mrs. Semple
- Kendall McComas as Freddie Perkins
- Kathlyn Williams as Mrs. Pendleton
- Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Lippett, the matron
- Louise Closser Hale as Miss Pritchard
- Sheila Bromley as Gloria
- Billy Barty as Orphan
- Edith Fellows as Orphan
- Clarence Geldart as Minister at Commencement
- Edwin Maxwell as Wykoff
- Steve Pendleton as Sally's Beau
Production
Janet Gaynor had won the first
Fox made French and Italian dubbed versions of the film and successfully sued a Dutch company for making a film based on the same material.[4]
References
- ^ Fragias, Leonidas (2017). Annual US Top Film Rentals 1912 - 1979 (Kindle ed.). Leonidas Fragias.
- ^ Daddy Long Legs (1931), imdb.com; accessed July 23, 2015.
- ^ a b Daddy Long Legs (1931 film), tcm.com; accessed July 23, 2015.
- ^ Daddy-Long-Legs (1931 film), tcm.com; accessed July 23, 2015.
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