Daddy Long Legs Script

Directed by:Jean Negulesco
Year:1955

Plot:Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, 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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Johnny Belinda Script

Script by:Irma von Cube (Writer), Allen Vincent (Writer), Elmer Harris (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Jean Negulesco
Year:1948

Plot:A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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City For Conquest Script

Script by:John Wexley (Screenplay), Aben Kandel (Novel)
Directed by:Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
Year:1940

Plot:The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Lydia Bailey Script

Script by:Kenneth Roberts (Novel), Michael Blankfort (Writer), Philip Dunne (Writer)
Directed by:Jean Negulesco
Year:1952

Plot:A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
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