Of course like the Clevelands the March/July romance commences. He becomes her unseen benefactor, putting her through college in America and she calls him, Daddy Long Legs. The car breaks down near an orphanage and while there spots and becomes enchanted with young Leslie Caron. In this updating of the story, Fred Astaire is a millionaire diplomat on a trade mission to France after World War II. Folsom when she came of age in the White House. Cleveland took over the guardianship and raised young Frances Folsom and when he was president in his first term he married young Ms. The future President of the United States was practicing law in Buffalo, New York when his law partner, one Oscar Folsom, was killed in a carriage accident leaving a widow and small daughter. I've got a feeling that Jean Webster took as her inspiration for the Daddy Long Legs Story the marriage of Grover Cleveland. It lost in 1955 to Love Is A Many Splendored Thing. Mercer did music and lyrics for the rest of the score as well which included the Oscar nominated Something's Gotta Give for Best Song. Another one he did both music and lyrics for is Dream which was interpolated into this otherwise original score and sung by the Pied Pipers. Johnny Mercer who can well lay claim to being the greatest lyricist America ever produced occasionally wrote the music as well for some songs, an example being I'm An Old Cowhand. Still the best known one is the one with the singing and dancing of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. There was even a Dutch language version in the Thirties and a couple of years back South Korea filmed a version of the story. First a play the following year that starred a young Ruth Chatterton, than film versions with Mary Pickford as a silent and an early sound film starring Janet Gaynor. (incl.Jean Webster's novel Daddy Long Legs has certainly been popular enough ever since it was written in 1912. Oct 26 The ANN Aftershow - Power VS The Bat Demon.Oct 27 This Week in Anime - Is Housing Complex C Scary?.10:00 Answerman - What Can We Do to Help English Voice Actors?.11:00 This Week in Games - It Do Be Halloween Tho.Oct 21 Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke GN 1.Oct 22 The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Novel 1.Oct 23 Voice of the Cards: Beasts of Burden.12:00 Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of a Dark Dusk.Oct 12 Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Subs.
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