Daddy Long Legs

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Mary Pickford
Jerusha "Judy" Abbott

Milla Davenport
Mrs. Lippett

Percy Haswell
Miss Pritchard

Fay Lemport
Angelina Gwendolin Rosalind "Angie" Wykoff

Mahlon Hamilton
Jarvis Pendleton

Lillian Langdon
Mrs. Pendleton

Betty Bouton
Julia "Julie" Pendleton

Audrey Chapman
Sallie "Sally" Mc Bride

Marshall Neilan
Jimmie Mc Bride

Carrie Clark Ward
Mrs. Semple

Marshall Neilan
Director

Mary Pickford
Producer

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• 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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