Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and 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, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
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Classical in form, warm, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Fred AstaireJervis Pendleton III
- Leslie CaronJulie Andre
- Terry MooreLinda Pendleton
- Thelma RitterAlicia Pritchard
- Fred ClarkGriggs
- Charlotte AustinSally McBride
- Larry KeatingAlexander Williamson
- Kathryn GivneyGertrude Pendleton
- Kelly BrownJimmy McBride
- Ray AnthonyRay Anthony
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- Jean NegulescoDirector
- Henry EphronScreenplay
- Phoebe EphronScreenplay
- Jean WebsterNovel
- Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
- Cyril J. MockridgeOriginal Music Composer
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- William ReynoldsEditor
- Samuel G. EngelProducer
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