Cinderella
3 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
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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!
What critics thought
Disney's 1950 Cinderella was greeted as a triumphant return to form — the studio's most accomplished animated film since Snow White — with critics singling out the luminous backgrounds, witty incidental characters, and warm musical numbers. The one persistent fault, raised both on original release and in later reviews, is that Cinderella and the Prince are the weakest presences in their own film: charming to look at, but too bland to anchor the story the way the comic animal supporting cast does.
“shows Disney at the tail end of his best period, when his backgrounds were still luminous with depth and detail and his incidental characters still had range and bite.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum·Chicago Reader
“more success in projecting the lower animals than in its central character, Cinderella, who is on the colorless, doll-faced side, as is the Prince Charming.”
Variety
“Yes, it's beautiful, and yes, it's classic. But it's also got rather a bland pair of lead characters. That said, it's still enjoyable family entertainment, and shall remain forever so.”
Empire Magazine
Genres
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
DirectorClyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
StarringIlene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams
ComposerPaul J. Smith, Oliver Wallace
Cinderella
3 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
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!
What critics thought
Disney's 1950 Cinderella was greeted as a triumphant return to form — the studio's most accomplished animated film since Snow White — with critics singling out the luminous backgrounds, witty incidental characters, and warm musical numbers. The one persistent fault, raised both on original release and in later reviews, is that Cinderella and the Prince are the weakest presences in their own film: charming to look at, but too bland to anchor the story the way the comic animal supporting cast does.
“shows Disney at the tail end of his best period, when his backgrounds were still luminous with depth and detail and his incidental characters still had range and bite.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum·Chicago Reader
“more success in projecting the lower animals than in its central character, Cinderella, who is on the colorless, doll-faced side, as is the Prince Charming.”
Variety
“Yes, it's beautiful, and yes, it's classic. But it's also got rather a bland pair of lead characters. That said, it's still enjoyable family entertainment, and shall remain forever so.”
Empire Magazine
Genres
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
DirectorClyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
StarringIlene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams
ComposerPaul J. Smith, Oliver Wallace
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