Comments on: Silent Reflections – Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:47:00 +0000

in the book his age is given as 14 years older

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:49:39 +0000

Can you please tell me how much older than Judy is Jarvis ?

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 16 May 2010 02:03:23 +0000

I don’t agree that this movie was entirely faithful to the book – after all, the book was 5% of the orphanage and the rest was her time at college while the film splits it 50/50. Understandably, as a movie watcher of today it’s difficult to appreciate silent films. I don’t understand how people could follow what was going on in the film. If I hadn’t pre-read the book I would have been lost. I guess it’s a setback that movies today feed us the storyline in a totally different way.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:39:02 +0000

I thought of Daddy-Long-Legs as a companion to Broken Blossoms for their dueling representations of women. Lillian Gish in Blossoms plays a tragic waif character, a type she played variations on throughout her career. She is abused by her father and lives in degraded circumstances, but her suffering cannot warp her essential goodness, sweetness and longing for a better, beautiful life. She has a passive strength; she endures. Pickford in Daddy-Long-Legs also plays a waif character (a type she also played variations on throughout her career) living in hard circumstances, but she doesn’t endure, she fights. She has a quintessentially American pluckiness and resilience that carries her past hardship.