![]() ![]() Cleveland took over the guardianship and raised young Frances Folsom and when he was president in his first term he married young Ms. The future President of the United States was practicing law in Buffalo, New York when his law partner, one Oscar Folsom, was killed in a carriage accident leaving a widow and small daughter. I've got a feeling that Jean Webster took as her inspiration for the Daddy Long Legs Story the marriage of Grover Cleveland. ![]() It lost in 1955 to Love Is A Many Splendored Thing. Mercer did music and lyrics for the rest of the score as well which included the Oscar nominated Something's Gotta Give for Best Song. Another one he did both music and lyrics for is Dream which was interpolated into this otherwise original score and sung by the Pied Pipers. Johnny Mercer who can well lay claim to being the greatest lyricist America ever produced occasionally wrote the music as well for some songs, an example being I'm An Old Cowhand. Still the best known one is the one with the singing and dancing of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. There was even a Dutch language version in the Thirties and a couple of years back South Korea filmed a version of the story. First a play the following year that starred a young Ruth Chatterton, than film versions with Mary Pickford as a silent and an early sound film starring Janet Gaynor. Jean Webster's novel Daddy Long Legs has certainly been popular enough ever since it was written in 1912. ![]()
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