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Released
1955 · FILM

Daddy Long Legs

Directed by
Runtime
126 min
MusicalRomance

Synopsis

A wealthy American named Jervis Pendleton meets a cheerful 18‑year‑old resident of a French orphanage by chance and anonymously funds her education at a college in New England. She regularly writes letters to the unknown benefactor, but he never replies. Several years later he visits her at school while still keeping his identity concealed, and despite their considerable age difference they soon fall in love.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William ReynoldsShot by Leon Shamroy

Also known as

  • Daddy Langbeinde
  • Papá piernas largases
  • Papa longues jambesfr
  • Papà gambalungait

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