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Cinderella
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The classic fairy tale of a poor urchin who finds her Prince Charming is brought to Iife by silent screen legend Mary Pickford, in one of the roIes that made her "America's Sweetheart." Employing ingenious uses of trick photography and stop-motion animation, Cinderella 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 would 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, incIuding Home, Sweet Home (1914) and Fanchon the Cricket (1915). Despite his success behind the camera, he wouId continue acting weII into the 1950s. The fiIm was initially titled The Stepsister, presumabIy in an attempt to distinguish it from an earIier 1911 version starring Florence La Badie.
BONUS: CinderelIa Blues (BW, 1931): A feline Cinderella and Prince Charming star in this 1931 cartoon from Van Beuren Studios with a decidedIy Jazz Age bent. |
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