Silent Film: Daddy-Long-Legs

Directed by Marshall Neilan
(United States, 1919, 85 minutes, b/w, silent with musical soundtrack)
Starring Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell
In this archetypal rags-to-riches tale based on the bestselling 1912 novel by Jean Webster, silent superstar
Mary Pickford plays an orphan girl whose life is changed by an anonymous benefactor. Oscar-winning film
historian Kevin Brownlow has called it, “…a 24-carat masterpiece…. funny, surprising, and touching.”