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	Daddy Long Legs - Celebrity Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pickford, although in her late '20s when the film was shot, is absolutely believable as a pigtailed 12-year-old; she's the epitome of a child-woman, the essence of gamine.
		Daddy Long Legs is a wonderful example of Mary Pickford's talent for portraying adolescent girls even when she herself was much older.
		She was 26 when the film was made in 1919, but she is convincing even when she plays a 12-year-old orphan and is quite captivating when she grows up to go to college.
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	Green Daddy Long legs Fly fishing flies
		Cast the daddy long leg fly to an area where trout activity is obvious on the surface.
		Drag a daddy long legs through a heavy ripple, or waves and the trout will often respond with a positive take.
		Daddies fished dry or dapped on the water will take trout, but you can use them for sea trout and salmon.
	freespace.virgin.net /fly.fishing/longlegs-detachedbody.html (1190 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film is a fascinating story of a child so protected by her wealthy parents that she has no idea of what is going on in the world.
		Films like Tess of the Storm Country (1922), Sparrows (1926), and My Best Girl (1927) maintained her popularity, but by the end of the decade Mary’s screen persona was starting to look dated in the wake of the flapper culture (Whitfield 63).
		She made one unsuccessful film with Fairbanks—their adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929—and then she attempted only three more sound films before realizing that she could not readily bridge the gap between her earlier characters and the sophistication of the film roles and audience expectations of 1930’s (Encarta).
	student.elon.edu /cdelfer/professional/academic_work/intro_research_paper.doc (2157 words)

	Daddy Long Legs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Daddy Long Legs" is one of the purest delights of silent cinema, and yet another testament to the genius of Mary Pickford -- obscured for so long by the general unavailability of her films, but in process of revelation in detail through the ongoing releases of the Pickford Foundation.
		I watched the film with some wistfulness, since it was the last of the current Pickford releases I hadn't seen, and also with some trepidation, since it would be my first encounter with the music of Maria Newman, whose silent film scores are the subject of much controversy among silent film fans.
		The music she wrote for this film consequently took me by surprise, because it was one of the loveliest silent film scores I've ever heard.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /featurefolder3/daddlylonglegscommentary.html (1057 words)

	Daddy Long Legs (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Happy ending There are two basic problems with this plot, in all (except one) of its various film versions: the girl is attracted to a man who's old enough to be her father, and he IS her father in a surrogate sense.
		Even worse, Daddy Long-Legs first becomes attracted to the girl when she's a minor: perhaps his interest in her is genuinely paternal, but it definitely acquires a sexual tone by the time she reaches the brink of adulthood.
		This film is faithful to the original novel, but it deflects the Lolita issue by splitting the stepdaughter into two characters: the little-girl orphan played by Shirley Temple, and her (adult) older sister played by Rochelle Hudson.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0021775 (549 words)

	Leslie Caron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		July 1, 1931) is a French film actress and dancer.
		She went on to star in Daddy Long Legs (1955) with Fred Astaire, Gigi with Maurice Chevalier and, Lili, plus other classic films set in France.
		She is one of the few leading ladies (or actors of any type for that matter) from the classic era of MGM musicals who is still active in film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leslie_Caron (169 words)

	Varese Sarabande Product Details
		Daddy Longs Legs was, unlike The Racers, a very successful film for Twentieth Century Fox.
		The film was Fred Astaire’s one and only picture for the studio and also starred a very young Leslie Caron.
		For Daddy Long Legs, Alex North composed a ballet in three movements (Paris, Hong Kong and Rio), and an extraordinary work it is. Choreographed by Roland Petit, it is a spectacular and extravagant production.
	www.varesesarabande.com /details.asp?pid=srs-2015-2 (446 words)

	IMDb user comments for Daddy Long Legs (1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Filmed in 1919 as a vehicle for Mary Pickford and again in 1931 with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter, the story seemed more old and picturesque for the mid-fifties...
		"Daddy Long Legs" is a sweet film with an utterly charming performance, in words and dance, by Leslie Caron, and Astaire's usual high-class, debonair, energetic work.
		Julie eventually graduates, is lonely because she has never met "Daddy Long Legs", and has no place to go to after graduation.
	indie.imdb.com /title/tt0047969/usercomments (1802 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Features, Laleh Khalili, Iranian women
		The film version of "Daddy Long Legs" with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron was not at all as I had remembered it - nor did it bear any resemblance to the book by Jean Webster.
		The film awoke in me memories of all the films characters we had seen in my Iranian childhood and all the books and news we had read in which women figured prominently.
		We were shocked by the honesty of her desires and -secretly, very secretly- longed to one day experience them: the flight of the clocks, the melting of the moon, the darkness in which two sated shadows light two cigarettes.
	www.iranian.com /LalehKhalili/July98/Want (1715 words)

	Charity's Place.com > Daddy Long Legs
		Jervis never writes her back, since he made the agreement not to be in contact with the girl.
		Miss Andre comes up with the name “Daddy Long-Legs” for her unknown benefactor, stemming from a few remarks of some children who had seen a shadow of the man at one time.
		Jervis happens to be the uncle of Miss Andre’s roommate at school, and so one day, on the pretense of coming to visit his niece, Jervis comes to the school’s big dance, and meets Miss Andre.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/daddylonglegs.htm (420 words)

	Female First Forum @ Womens Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The daddy long legs is relatively harmless but the mummy long legs is a viscious killer.
		Mummy long legs is a lot worse than any mouse, A ones, B ones or anyones.
		The Crane Fly is commonly known as the Daddy Long Legs, I think you were refering to the Harvestman (mistakenly called Daddy Long Legs, but also not a spider).
	www.femalefirst.co.uk /board/post-55560.html (1752 words)

	www.shuqi.org - Asian Cinema - Daddy Long Legs
		When a film is called a "tearjerker" it usually doesn't mean that the film will pin you down, take a pair of pliers, and forcefully jerk the tears from your eye sockets.
		Then the film could tempt her with something else, and suddenly she'd be in a dilemma.
		And while a film like this may not exactly be a stretch for her, she's perfect for the part.
	www.shuqi.org /asiancinema/reviews/daddylonglegs.shtml (1068 words)

	Mary Pickford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She said that the public remembered her as a little girl and that she was content to leave it that way.
		The film, a star vehicle if there ever was one, shows Pickford at the top of her considerable form as the gamin who grows into a glamour puss and is convincing in both roles.
		Daddy-Long-Legs is very much a product of its time in its portrayal of a young woman who found a sugar daddy to take care of her, but the women who saw the film knew that Little Mary had it all: the most dashing husband in the world and a fabulously successful career of her own.
	www.selu.edu /kslu/pickford.html (391 words)

	Daddy-longlegs: Friend or Foe
		They carry their small but elongated bodies low to the ground and use their legs to explore the enviroment and find food.
		Mostly nocturnal, the adults are sometimes found in groups with their legs interlaced.
		They clean the legs by running them through their mouths and will disconnect a leg if it's been grasped by a predator.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_pests/11802 (488 words)

	Daddy Long Legs Box 1 & 2 [10-Disc Set] DVD \| dir.: \| cast:
		Griggs rushed to tell Judy that Daddy Long Legs was on the brisk of illness.
		Daddy Long Legs was Uncle Jervis who show his concerns for Judy all the time.
		Judy was more certain when she saw the letters she wrote to Daddy Long Legs in the house.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.532944/qx/details.asp (635 words)

	Elaina B. Archer on Mary Pickford--The Lybarger Links Interview
		Known as “America’s Sweetheart” (she was actually a native of Toronto), she dominated the film industry in an era (from 1914 to 1929) when women were not expected to be breadwinners, much less tycoons.
		In that film, she leads a group of children across a branch over a river.
		Mary and her collaborators were also daring with the content of some of her films.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/marypickford.htm (1147 words)

	Alex North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The writing in "3 A.M. Blackjack" is equally piquant, with halting winds, a serpentine flute solo which is taken up by the sax, then returned to the flute, and an effective use of hand held percussion instruments.
		And speaking of percussion, North's Daddy Long Legs fantasy ballet for the 1955 Fred Astaire—Leslie Caron vehicle of the same name—it was scored by Johnny Mercer—gets lots of its color and drive from it.
		He uses all manner of drums, what sound like cowbells, as well as tambourines, cymbals, gongs, and he even treats the mandolins as if they were percussion.
	alexnorthmusic.com /theracers.html (500 words)

	W2 Edgar Rice Burroughs Library
		Besides the 1923 film adaptation, an earlier silent version was done in 1915 and probably does not survive, and a fine talkie version was done in 1936 directed by Victor Sjostrom and starring Conrad Veidt as Gil de Berault and Raymond Massie as Cardinal Richelieu.
		Handsomely mounted, with a strong cast, the film is set in France during the reign of Louis XIII.
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	www.erbzine.com /dan/w2.html (2921 words)

	Amazon.com: Daddy Long-Legs (1919) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Unlike the movie itself, unfortunately, the quality of the DVD transfer is poor--the background in many scenes often appears to be a jumble of little gray squares.
		The foreground is indistinct and fuzzy, lacking the smoothness and sharp details of a good film to video (disc) transfer.
		The films of 1918: WWI ends and Wilson introduces his "points": A list by 25-year old wallflower, In a world of lasting peace
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305444536?v=glance (2091 words)

	Una Merkel quiz
		She played the same character in both films.
		Una Merkel appeared in "Daddy Long Legs", "Evelyn Prentice" and "Red-Headed Woman".
		Una Merkel appeared in one film with Hayley Mills.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=155340&origin= (150 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Injecting some social commentary into his comic melodrama, director Marshall "Mickey" Neilan (who also appears in the drama) shows life's cruel circumstances by contrasting Judy's motherless plight with that of the spoiled, snobbish Angelina Wyckoff (Fay Lemport) whose mother is one of the members of the board of trustees which visits the orphanage every Wednesday.
		Pickford shows a remarkable range in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919), opening the film as a believable 12-year-old (though the actress was 26 at the time) and finishing it as a successful adult novelist, who is just as believable.
		Judy's orphan is just one in a long line of Pickford heroines renowned for their spunky, perpetually chin-up optimism despite all odds.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,97223\|97224\|\|,00.html (692 words)

	MSN Encarta - Fred Astaire
		Astaire's other films include Easter Parade (1948), with Judy Garland; Daddy Long Legs (1955), with Leslie Caron; Funny Face (1957), with Audrey Hepburn; and Silk Stockings (1957), with Cyd Charisse.
		Perhaps the greatest popular dancer of his time, Astaire combined a technical mastery with a sense of ease and good humor.
		In 1949 his film work was recognized with a special Academy Award.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558529/Fred_Astaire.html (226 words)

	Alex Fung's Page > Film Lists > American Film Institute: 100 Years ... 100 Passions
		To celebrate a century of film, on November 14th, 2001 the American Film Institute launched an initiative to cite America's 100 greatest love stories.
		Ballots listing 400 candidate films were sent to a jury of 1 800 leaders in the film community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers, etc.), critics and historians.
		(Films whose "passions" have enriched America’s film and cultural heritage and continue to inspire contemporary artists and audiences)
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6696/Lists/02afi100.htm (215 words)

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	Daddy Long Legs comments, notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pickford and Neilan (the film's director) in typical style, rediscovered the material through slapstick.
		the film is remarkable for its fluidity, the way its seemingly disconnected incidents transmit a deeply experienced childhood.
		"The craftsmanship of the film shines through even the limitations of a VHS casssette, and as a human document it is, quite simply, adorable.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /featurefolder3/ddlcommentsnotes.html (474 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Daddy Long Legs : Review
		Daddy Long Legs is a delightful little fairy tale of a movie.
		More importantly, unlike some other versions of the film (such as the Fred Astaire-Leslie Caron musical remake of the 1950s), this one manages to avoid instilling discomfort in viewers over the difference in age between the Mary Pickford character and the title character.
		All in all, this Daddy is a sweet and amiable little film.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/55577/review.jhtml (277 words)

	Facts about topic: (Comedy film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Comedy films can be further divided into several other sub-genres.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/comedy_film.htm (4252 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Daddy Long Legs : Plot
		Pickford is provided with funds for her education and well-being by a mysterious benefactor, whom she knows only as "Daddy Long Legs" because of the spider-like shadow he casts on the orphanage steps.
		Upon reaching a marriageable age, Pickford falls in love with handsome Mahlon Hamilton, never dreaming that he and Daddy Long Legs are one in the same.
		Like several of Mary Pickford's best silent films, Daddy Long Legs was remade in the talkie era by Shirley Temple (as 1935's Curly Top).
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/55577/plot.jhtml (190 words)

	Three Musicals
		This helps desex the film, as do certain small changes in lyrics (no longing for "the trousers that cling to him" in this film).
		He signs them "Daddy Long Legs," with a little drawing of long legs as part of the signature.
		The plot is embarrassing now, and surely was embarrassing at least subliminally in 1955; an audience of any sophistication would have had to ignore the obvious smutty subtextual implications.
	www.cinescene.com /Les/3musicals.html (820 words)

	Mary and Jack Pickford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Not content with being one of the screen's highest paid performers, Mary dabbled in the writing, casting, and the directing of her films, so much so that she decided to go it on her own as an indep;endent film producer.
		The Mary Pickford Company's first effort was Daddy Long Legs, in which Mary plays a twelve-year-old orphan who grows up and falls in love with her guardian.
		Variety remarked that the film was "a farily pleasing picture," but also noted that Jack's production contract with First National was probably, and only, because of his sister's powerful influence on the industry.
	www.hollywoodheritage.org /silents/pickford.html (271 words)

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