When:Sunday November 7, 2010
Time:1:30PM
Where:Central Library
Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
t. 718-230-2100
Cost:Free
Help Brooklyn Central Library celebrate National Adoption Month with a Free screening of Daddy Long Legs. Sit back and relax the first film adaptation of Jean Webster’s classic coming-of-age writer-to-be novel and play. Mary Pickford plays Judy Abbott, who begins life abandoned as a baby, in an ashcan, and grows up in an orphanage. She is given the gift of a college education by a benefactor who wishes to remain anonymous, asks only for monthly letters of her progress, and whom she nicknames Daddy-Long-Legs, in this serio-comic Dickensian Cinderella tale that matures in tone as Judy grows up. Directed by Marshall Neilan. Live piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman. Curated and Hosted by Ken Gordon.