"Daddy Long Legs was filmed earlier (1919) as a Mary Pickford silent, again in 1955 as a Fred Astaire musical, and quite unofficially and without credit to the source as Shirley Temple's Curly Top. While the gentle romantic novels of Jean Webster have outgrown their time and their audience and are never read any more, basically they do not date, and the story of Daddy Long Legs still has a great deal of charm. It is also very adroitly directed by Santell, who keeps it briskly on the move, neatly sidestepping clichés and vulgarized sentiment every time they threaten to appear! At the time there was some criticism of transferring Webster's tale to the contemporary thirties, but fifty-five years later, the thirties seem to us to be an era of innocence and the updating hardly matters. It is one of the most enjoyable of the Baxter-Gaynor liaisons, and as her new (if short-lived) successor to Charles Farrell, his world-weary maturity (though he looked older than he was) made a nice contrast with her still youthful vivacity. Tragically, this now seems to be a virtually lost film, and this print may well be the only surviving copy." -William K. Everson