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Apr 1, 2024 · Daddy-Long-Legs tells the story of a young girl, Jerusha Abbott, who has been raised in an orphanage. Being the oldest of the pupils, she has to work hard for her pension, helping to take care of the other kids.
Sep 29, 2015 · That mailbag is unusually full in “Daddy Long Legs,” a sweet, beautifully sung and only occasionally unsettling musical adaptation of Jean Webster’s 1912 novel, predicated on the lengthy ...
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- September 30, 2015
Jun 9, 2010 · The question at the heart of “Daddy Longlegs” is, why did his former wife ever think she could trust him with two weeks annually of child custody? Lenny shouldn't even have custody of himself. Movie Reviews
Feb 1, 2008 · Read 9,113 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that….
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Aug 10, 2017 · My friend mentioned that Daddy-Long-Legs is an epistolary novel, and well, I love a good epistolary novel. So even though I’d just finished a short, light, comic classic ( Three Men in a Boat) I decided to give another one a try rather than attempt a Big, Serious 19th century novel.
Apr 1, 2018 · “Daddy Long Legs” reminds me why I fell in love with stories – they carried the possibility that anything, however improbable, was possible. Five kids could solve mysteries and trap criminals. Cheese, when toasted on a stick on an open fire in the mountains, would turn golden.
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Reviews 65% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings In this musical, American millionaire Jervis Pendleton (Fred Astaire) becomes taken with an orphan named Julie (Leslie Caron) while vacationing in...
- Musical, Romance