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---- John Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> *Daddy Long-legs *was the basis of several films beginning in the silent
> era, one with Mary Pickford, including a Fred Astaire musical in the
> fifties. I didb't know the Mark Twain connection.
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> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Wesley Britton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Editing a biography of actor Ruth Chatterton, I ran across a dmention of
> > Mark Twain's niece,  Jean Webster.  Apparently, actor/producer Henry Miller
> > had picked up a copy of Webster's popular book Daddy Long-Legs at a
> > newsstand and contacted the authorh about adapting it for the stage in
> > 1914.
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> > The book has some comments on Webster, stressing Jean Webster combined
> > writing with social activism.  "The story was inspired by her work on
> > behalf
> > of orphans.  She drew her material from monthly visits to orphanages in New
> > England."
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> > Variety praised, "Daddy Long-Legs is a full-grown comedy in which the
> > author
> > has blended a laugh and a tear in almost every line."[i]
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> > Apparently, the play was quite a success for several years and perhaps
> > helped pave the way for the sufferage movement. Never heard of it
> > before-anyone know more?
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> > Dr. Wesley Britton
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> > Co-host, Dave White Presents
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> > www.audioentertainment.org/dwp
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> > Spywise website
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> > www.spywise.net
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> > [i] Review of Daddy Long-Legs, Variety, February 27, 1914
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> -- 
> John H. Davis, Ph.D.
> Professor of English
> Department of Language and Literature
> Chowan University
> Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855