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Daddy Long Legs (1955) is a musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of Walston, Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Fred Astaire dance-conducting the Artie Shaw Orchestra in Second Chorus. This is a comprehensive guide to over one hundred and fifty of Fred Astaire's solo and partnered dances compiled from his thirty-one Hollywood musical comedy films produced between 1933 and 1968, his four television specials and his television appearances on The Hollywood Palace and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ...
Daddy Long Legs is a stage musical with a book by John Caird, and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon.It is based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Jean Webster.Set in turn-of-the-century New England, the musical tells the story of orphan Jerusha Abbott of the John Grier Home and her mysterious benefactor who agrees to send her to college, who she dubs "Daddy Long Legs" after seeing his ...
The Sluefoot: 1955: Johnny Mercer: Johnny Mercer: Daddy Long Legs: 1955, RCA Victor 20-6140 The Way You Look Tonight: 1936: Jerome Kern: Dorothy Fields: Swing Time: Los Angeles, July 26, 1936, Brunswick 7717 The Whichness of the Whatness: 1922: Adele Astaire: William Daly: Arthur Francis aka Ira Gershwin: For Goodness Sake: London, October 18 ...
From 1953 to 1954, Anthony was musical director of the television series TV's Top Tunes, and he also appeared as himself with his orchestra in the 1955 musicale/dance film Daddy Long Legs starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. [3] In 1955 he married actress Mamie Van Doren. Their son Perry Ray was born on March 18, 1956.
"Something's Gotta Give" is a popular song with words and music by Johnny Mercer in 1954. [1] It was published in 1955.It was written for and first performed by Fred Astaire in the 1955 musical film Daddy Long Legs, and was nominated the same year for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, losing to "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" from the film of the same name.
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Daddy Long Legs. Nominated Best Original Song 1956 "I'm Past My Prime" Gene de Paul: 1956 "Jubilation T. Cornpone" Gene de Paul: 1956 "Bernardine" Johnny Mercer: For the film Bernardine: 1956 "Technique" Johnny Mercer: For the film Bernardine: 1959 "I Wanna Be Around" Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt: 1960 "The Facts of Life" Johnny Mercer: The ...