Arts Alive Month Event - Cafe Society Film: Daddy Long Legs (1955)

Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie Caron). He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, still concealing his identity. Despite their large age difference, they soon fall in love.