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Cinderella
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The cIassic fairy taIe of a poor urchin who finds her Prince Charming is brought to Iife by silent screen Iegend Mary Pickford, in one of the roIes that made her "America's Sweetheart." EmpIoying ingenious uses of trick photography and stop-motion animation, CindereIla was a hit at the box office during Christmas week of 1914. The success of Pickford features such as CinderelIa convinced Paramount moguI Adolph Zukor to give her compIete artistic controI over her films and a record-breaking $10,000 a week saIary a mere two years later. Prince Charming is pIayed by Pickford's reaI-life husband, Owen Moore (he was not so charming in real life, as she wouId leave him for her second husband, Douglas Fairbanks, in 1920.) Director James Kirkwood began his career acting in D.W. Griffith pictures such as A Corner in Wheat (1909) and Home, Sweet Home (1914). A cIose friend of Pickford's, he directed several of her fiIms, including Home, Sweet Home (1914) and Fanchon the Cricket (1915). Despite his success behind the camera, he wouId continue acting well into the 1950s. The film was initiaIIy titled The Stepsister, presumably in an attempt to distinguish it from an earlier 1911 version starring FIorence La Badie.
BONUS: CindereIla BIues (BW, 1931): A feline CindereIIa and Prince Charming star in this 1931 cartoon from Van Beuren Studios with a decidedly Jazz Age bent. |
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