The fourth screen version of Jean Webster's novel, this time with a perfectly cast Fred Astaire, who literally glides his way through the tissue-thin plot about an orphan falling for her playboy benefactor. This could be tasteless, bearing in mind the vast age gap, but since it's a musical and the delightful Leslie Caron is the girl - well, in the words of the movie's Oscar-nominated song by Johnny Mercer, Something's Gotta Give. Interestingly, this was released when rock 'n' roll was at its peak, and features the great Astaire doing the Sluefoot. (Watch Astaire's face: he's not joking.) A charming, old-fashioned musical with Fred Clark, Thelma Ritter and Terry Moore providing excellent support.

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, 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.