Silent film "Daddy-Long-Legs" to be screened March 30, 2012

Starring silent film superstar Mary Pickford

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Still from 1919 silent film "Daddy-Long-Legs"

ALBANY, NY (03/17/2012)(readMedia)-- "Daddy-Long-Legs" (United States, 1919, 85 minutes, b/w, silent with musical soundtrack, directed by Marshall Neilan) will be shown on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.

In this archetypal rags-to-riches tale based on the bestselling 1912 novel by Jean Webster, silent superstar Mary Pickford plays an orphan girl whose life is changed by an anonymous benefactor. Oscar-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow has called it, "...a 24-caret masterpiece...funny, surprising, and touching."

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.