My spidey sense is tingling

A movie that's been on the FXM schedule for a while now is the 1955 Fred Astaire version of Daddy Long Legs, which is going to be on again tomorrow at 12:50 PM and Thursday at 7:55 AM. I had DVRed it on the old DVR to watch and do a full-length post on here, but the old DVR died. I did get a chance last month to watch the last ten minutes or so just before Désirée, and noticed that the print was both letterboxed and pillarboxed, boo his.

Anyhow, the brief subject of the movie is that Astaire goes over to France and at an orphange, meets one orphan (Leslie Caron) he's taken with, so he anonymously sponsors her to study at college in the US. She falls in love with her unseen benefactor, and then meets Astaire not realizing he's the benefactor. Dance-filled complications ensue.

Anyhow, in doing a bit of research on the movie, I noticed that it's based on a novel from the beginning of the century, and that the Astaire version is at least the third movie version. Janet Gaynor starred in a 1931 version, and there's a 1919 silent with Mary Pickford, who did a whole bunch of these much younger than her actual age roles. That version being from 1919, it's in the public domain, so you can find it on Youtube. I didn't check if any of the versions on Youtube have scores: