

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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Cast

Fred Astaire
Jervis Pendleton III

Leslie Caron
Julie Andre

Terry Moore
Linda Pendleton

Thelma Ritter
Alicia Pritchard

Fred Clark
Griggs

Charlotte Austin
Sally McBride

Larry Keating
Ambassador Alexander Williamson

Kathryn Givney
Gertrude Pendleton

Kelly Brown
Jimmy McBride

Ray Anthony
Himself

Gertrude Astor
Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Barrie Chase
Blonde dancer (in "International Playboy") (uncredited)
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