Daddy Long Legs
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Movie Reviews of Daddy Long Legs
Movie Review: Astaire tried to do the best he could with this script
Summary: 2 Stars
It's just that the script was really flimsy to begin with. A college-bound orphan, even one from Paris, would be a little more street-wise. Instead, we get an overgrown child who spends an inordinate time writing to her benefactor. She is angry that she has not heard from him during much of her college enrollment.
Frankly, I don't find that a plausible development at all.
Instead of getting involved on campus, or seriously attending to her studies to make attending college academically worthwhile--she's pouting. Really, she should be grateful that she's even getting to attend college and won't have to worry about how it's being paid for.
This film made me feel sorry for Fred Astaire--who obviously has awesome dance moves.
I can't believe an agent actually encouraged him to take this part. Sure it was a showcase for his dancing, but some of the lines which he had to utter besides were pure camp. The guy deserved better!
Movie Review: FOX HITS SOME RATHER WEAK NOTES
Summary: 2 Stars
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, each studio usually took a stab all various genres, but excelled in only one. Warner Brothers cornered gangster films, with forays into musicals (Busby Berkeley) and noir (Bogart). Universal dabbled in lots of B-films, but succeeded big-time with horror. MGM, of course, produced the best musicals. Fox did melodramas --- especially noir --- with an occasional romp on MGM's musical turf. And usually those romps hit some really bad notes. Witness the first three flicks in their Marquee Musicals series. Daddy Long Legs has Astaire and Caron, Pin-Up Girl has Betty Grable, Week-End in Havana has Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda, The memory of these films, for the most part, is a lot better than the films themselves. The pleasant but fairly pedestrian scores, thin plots and busy character actors scurrying around propping up the story make for rough going. And make one yearn for Mickey and Judy.Movie Review: I'm a big Fred Astaire fan, but...
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the first Fred Astaire movie that I've ever quit watching midway through. It's really more of a showcase for Leslie Caron, who was sort of a French Annette Funicello -- although she's likeable enough, her personality and talents seem singularly underwhelming, especially when you've got Astaire waiting in the wings, twiddling his thumbs. The film starts out great, with a scene of Fred banging away on the drums, keeping time to a jazz record and talking hep lingo... But it loses oompf midway through, and Astaire recedes into the background for far too long. It's an okay movie, but there are many, many better films to be seen.