Daddy Long Legs

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Cast

Miss Percy Aswell
as Miss Pritchard

Mary Pickford
as Judy Abbott

Mahlon Hamilton
as Jarvis Pendleton

Milla Davenport
as Mrs. Lippett

Percy Haswell
as Miss Pritchard

Audry Chapman
as Sally McBride

Fay Lemport
as Angelina Wykoff

Lillian Langdon
as Mrs. Pendleton

Estelle Evans

Betty Bouton
as Julia Pendleton

Fred Huntley

Audrey Chapman
as Sallie McBride

Marshall Neilan
as Jimmie McBride

Carrie Clark Ward
as Mrs. Semple

Wesley Barry
as Orphan Boy

Carrie Clarke Warde
as Mrs. Semple

Frankie Lee

Joan Marsh

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Critic Reviews for Daddy Long Legs

Audience Reviews for Daddy Long Legs

• Aug 10, 2013

  I'm familiar with this story from working on a new stage musical version with only two actors. Jarvis is Jerusha's secret sponsor. She describes in songs and letters her life at the orphanage, the people she encounters at college, and her budding career as a writer. In this beautiful telling of Jean Webster's novel, Mary Pickford is Jerusha Abbott, nicknamed Judy. There is an extended metaphor of children being like flowers. Some are pampered and spoiled like Angelina Wycoff (Lemport). Some are born in trash heaps and must fight just to survive like Jerusha and the other children at the John Grier Home. The orphans are kept working and their treatment is compared to prisoners on a chain gang. Mrs. Lippett (Davenport), the matron of the orphanage, is compared to a cactus. Early in the story Pickford as Judy rallies the other orphans to go on a prune strike and ends up getting drunk with the younger Wesley Barry and a dog. A year or two pass and the kindly Miss Pritchard convinces another donor to pay Judy's way to college. Judy only sees his silhouette and dubs him Daddy-Long-Legs. She is told to write letters monthly to "John Smith" keeping him appraised of how her life is going. At college Judy rooms with Sallie McBride and Julia Pendleton, who both have aristocratic family histories. In a fantasy segment, the manager of an office of baby cupids decides it is time for Jerusha/Judy to fall in love. It is humorous when the one cupid describes that the love arrow went right through the intended target and stuck in a second man, thus starting a tricky love triangle. Jimmie McBride (Neilan, the director) is Sallie's brother. And Jarvis Pendleton (Hamilton) is Julia's uncle. Something always seems to get in the way of Jimmie spending quality time with Judy, so it is the mature Jarvis, who is perhaps 15 or 20 years older, who attracts Judy's attention. The ending doesn't feel resolved though as Jerusha discovers the shocker that Jarvis IS Daddy-Long-Legs. The title cards are well written and decorated with art. The performances from the entire cast are believable.
  Byron B Super Reviewer

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