Dad long legs

Papa long legs is a American Musical film of Jean Negulesco turned in 1955. It is also a book.

Synopsis

Jervis Pendleton (Fred Astaire), rich business man, goes to Paris to take part in work of a financial commission. It meets by chance, in an orphanage, Julie (Leslie Charon), which it decides to adopt. But the young girl being minor, the adoption is impossible for reasons of suitability. He then becomes his anonymous patron until the day when, at the time of a ball in New York, he declares his flame to him.

Comments

Papa long legs takes as a starting point a novel of Jean Webster of 1912, adapted several times to the scene of which a cinematographic version in 1919 with Mary Pickford. In 1950, Darryl F. Zanuck, owner of Fox, dreamed to make of it a musical comedy and it benefitted from the end of the contract of Fred Astaire with MGM to engage it with Leslie Charon.
The scenario writers brought changes to the novel of Webster while transposing part of the French history and while confronting, once again, the old one and the new one thanks to the choreographic mixture between the style guindé of Roland Petit and that very air of Fred Astaire.
Usually, it was Hermes Pan which regulated choreographies of Fred Astaire, but for this film the actor agreed to work with Roland Petit which strongly wished to create a choreography for this myth of the American musical comedy.

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