Cinderella

1950 American animated musical fantasy film

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"Cinderella" is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film that tells the classic story of a young woman who, with magical help, escapes her difficult life to find love and happiness. The film is significant as one of Disney's most beloved and commercially successful animated features, helping to revive the animation studio's fortunes after World War II.

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Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

Released: 1950-02-2274 minDir: Clyde GeronimiFamily, Fantasy, Animation, RomanceBudget: $2.9MBox office: $264MPart of: Cinderella Collection

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Cast

Ilene Woods as Cinderella (voice)
Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine (voice)
Verna Felton as Fairy Godmother (voice)
Claire Du Brey as (credit only) (voice)
Rhoda Williams as Drizella (voice)
James MacDonald as Gus / Jaq (voice)

Themes

princess
based on novel or book
loss of loved one
mouse
ball
fairy
cartoon
prince
villain
musical

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Wikidata facts

Duration: 74
FilmAffinity ID: 807711
Official website: movies.disney.com/cinderella-1950
Image: 1950 is the Cinderella year.jpg

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publication date: 2015-03-19
Commons category: Cinderella (1950 film)
title: Cinderella
box office: 85000000
production code: 2063
review score: 95%
capital cost: 2200000

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Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Cinderella, the daughter of a widowed aristocrat, who is forced to become a servant of her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, until Cinderella's fairy godmother grants her the chance to attend the royal ball and meet the prince. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen, and was directed by Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi. It features the voices of Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, June Foray, James MacDonald, and Luis van Rooten.

During the early 1940s, Walt Disney Productions had suffered financially after losing connections to the European film markets due to the outbreak of World War II. Because of this, the studio endured commercial failures such as Pinocchio, Fantasia (both 1940) and Bambi (1942), all of which would later become more successful with several re-releases in theaters and on home video. By 1947, the studio was over $4 million in debt and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Walt Disney and his animators returned to feature film production in 1948 after producing a string of package films with the idea of adapting Charles Perrault's Cendrillon into an animated film.