See All the Portrayals of Cinderella On-Screen Through the Years

The first actress to be identified broadly as “America’s Sweetheart” starred in 1914’s silent Cinderella reverse her real-life husband, Owen Moore, as Prince Charming. They divorced in 1920 after a rocky 9 years in combination and Pickford (whose genuine identity used to be Gladys Smith) married Douglas Fairbanks only some weeks later.

Stanley used to be the dwelling style and supplied the titular talking voice for the titular heroine and Woods did the making a song within the 1950 Disney animated vintage, Cinderella.

Stanley used to be additionally the dwelling style for Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and Anita in 101 Dalmatians, and then she retired from the display industry. (In a wholly unrelated word, she used to be in brief married to Johnny Stampanato, a bodyguard and enforcer for L.A. gangster Mickey Cohen. Stampanato then dated Lana Turner and used to be stabbed to loss of life in 1958 via Turner’s teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane. Cheryl claimed self-defense, announcing Stampanato were attacking her mom when she intervened, and it used to be dominated a justifiable murder.)

Woods used to be pals with Cinderella songwriters Mack David and Jerry Livingston, they usually requested if she would document a number of the songs that they had composed for the movie. Walt Disney heard the demos and presented her with the process. She used to be named a Disney Legend in 2003.

“I loved doing the character,” Woods informed the Houston Chronicle in 2005. “When my dad saw the movie, he said he saw me in the facial expressions, hand movements, and mannerisms. Marc Davis, who animated [my character], would watch me record and picked up on things.”

Coming off an Oscar nomination for Lili, the French-American triple risk danced, sang, and balanced a huge ballgown as Ella—nicknamed “Cinderella” via some merciless townies—within the 1955 movie The Glass Slipper. She would possibly not get a lot to recognize within the duchy, but if her adolescence playmate Prince Charles (performed via Elizabeth Taylor’s husband on the time, Michael Wilding) returns to the city from finding out of the country and spots this interesting unknown lady at his welcome-home ball… let’s simply say, Cinderella will get the closing giggle.

Before Mary Poppins, Andrews’ first Disney dance used to be within the 1957 TV film Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, that includes the duo’s most effective e-book and lyrics written for TV (minus “Loneliness of Evening,” at the beginning written for however by no means incorporated in South Pacific) sooner than the manufacturing changed into a long-running level musical (regardless that there wasn’t a Broadway adaptation till 2013).

More than 100 million folks watched the unique dwell broadcast on CBS.

Asked whom she felt had particularly aided her mythical occupation alongside the best way, Andrews informed Backstage.com in 2011, “Lerner and Loewe, and Moss Hart. Also, Rodgers and Hammerstein had been extraordinarily beneficial and type and wrote the televised Cinderella musical for me.

The 1965 TV film—set to the Rodgers and Hammerstein ranking—used to be rebroadcast 8 instances and the 18-year-old Warren changed into the go-to Cinderella for a brand new era.

“I actually never get tired of talking about it, because it was such a magnificent part of my life and…such a huge blessed sort of launching pad, you know, to my career,” the Clue and Victor Victoria actress informed Parade in 2017.

“It was an unbelievable experience for me,” Warren persisted. “I mean, just to be working that intimately with people like Richard Rodgers, and Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Jo Van Fleet…it was really a dream, you know. It was hard work and in those days they didn’t have the union rules, so sometimes we worked 23 hours out of 24— literally.”

Richard and Robert Sherman—the sibling duo who, by the way, wrote the Academy Award-winning song for Mary Poppins—had been additionally nominated for the ranking from the 1976 British movie The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella. The movie ends extra suspensefully than some with Prince Edward (Richard Chamberlain) virtually marrying any person else till Cinderella presentations up, very easily already in a marriage get dressed.

Talking in hindsight about her heartthrob co-star Chamberlain being homosexual, one thing he used to be no longer public about till he printed his 2003 memoir, Shattered Love, Craven informed Ireland’s Independent in 2006 that they by no means mentioned his private existence. “All I know is that Richard and I got on like a house on fire and he is a wonderful actor to work with and we had lots of laughs,” she stated. “Though I did think when we met ‘God, this is Dr. Kildare!’ and he was gorgeous!”

Whitney Houston used to be a government manufacturer and performed Fairy Godmother on this 1997 Wonderful World of Disney remake, the primary main tackle any of the Disney classics with a black actress within the main princess position. An estimated 23 million families tuned in for the ABC tournament.

“I grew up looking at the Lesley Ann model of Cinderella,” government manufacturer Debra Martin Chase informed Shondaland for the Emmy-winning TV film’s 20th anniversary in 2017. “That used to be an annual main tournament in my space. So I used to be enthralled with the theory of doing a brand new Cinderella, and having her be of color. I knew how a lot it will have supposed to me as just a little woman.”

Brandy remembered pondering it used to be “surreal” that Houston even knew who she used to be, let on my own that she was known as her at her oldsters’ space to look if she sought after to play Cinderella. The manufacturers “broke it down for me. ‘This is gonna be a multicultural cast. Trust us,'” she stated. “I thought, Wow, that’s different. I didn’t know what to think at first because I hadn’t seen it done. I was just happy to be Cinderella. I never felt like we were ‘breaking the rules,’ but I knew that we were doing something different.”

1998’s Ever After A Cinderella Story places Drew Barrymore’s Danielle smack in the course of the Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci paints her portrait!—and dress fashion designer Jenny Beavan delivered the sumptuous appears to be like to check. And this Cinderella determines additionally sports activities wings, representing how Danielle—and Drew—sweeps herself off of her personal toes. (Though a good-looking prince is concerned.)

“[I wanted to] re-start my career and start a company with [producing partner Nancy Juvonen], and be a young woman,” Barrymore recalled to Elle in 2016. “I had been a kid and an awkward teenager as we all are, and I was at that place in my life where I was truly asking, What have I learned? What do I think? Who am I going to be? And then I came across this story that said, ‘The Grimm brothers had it all wrong, that Cinderella rescued herself.’ And I thought, ‘Rescue yourself? That’s who I want to be, that’s who I need to be in this life.'”

The sleeper hit A Cinderella Story from 2004 transplants the vintage story into the modern-day San Fernando Valley and Duff’s Sam Montgomery toils away on the circle of relatives diner that her depraved stepmother has been operating since her father died. Disobeying orders to skip the college dance, Sam attends dressed in a ballgown and masks—and catches the attention of in style hunk Austin Ames, performed via Chad Michael Murray.

Duff admired Prince Charming in genuine existence, too, telling Cosmopolitan.com in 2016, “I definitely had a crush on him. We had a few kissing scenes in the movie and I remember feeling pretty nervous about that, but then we became friends and I wasn’t so nervous anymore.”

Based at the 1997 e-book Ella Enchanted, this 2004 take at the Cinderella tale provides some extra creatures and begins with little Ella cursed with the lack to disobey (or, her fairy godmother provides her the “gift of obedience”)—which, in flip, makes her top fodder to be taken benefit of via a nasty stepmother, performed with snide perfection via Absolutely Fabulous famous person Joanna Lumley.

Hathaway labored with mime to learn to make her frame glance as though Ella used to be responding to folks’ instructions without giving them a 2d idea.

The ceaselessly fascinating Enchanted, from 2007, used to be a Disney-produced send-up of Disney tropes, by which Adams’ princess-to-be Giselle—a Cinderella-Aurora-Ariel hybrid—is driven down a smartly via her royal fiancé’s evil stepmother (Susan Sarandon) and pops up in modern-day New York. She finally ends up who prefers divorce lawyer Robert (Patrick Dempsey) to the great sufficient however narcissistic Prince Edward (James Marsden), who then sweeps Robert’s fiancée, Nancy (Idina Menzel), off her toes. In retaining with the most productive of Disney custom, 3 of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz‘s authentic songs had been nominated for Oscars.

2008’s Another Cinderella Story, the straight-to-DVD sequel to A Cinderella Story, starred up-and-coming Disney princess Selena Gomez, who used to be on the time making a reputation for herself on Wizards of Waverly Place. High college senior Mary Santiago’s goals of being a dancer, however, status in her approach is her criminal mother or father, washed-up singer Dominique Blatt (Jane Lynch), and Dominique’s depraved daughters, Brie and Brit Blatt. Bleh!

She used to be a pitch-perfect fractured fairy story model of Cinderella within the 2014 big-screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods, which isn’t such a lot about thankfully ever after as it’s about seizing on bits of happiness amid the grimmer moments of existence.

“To be honest, I never thought that much about Cinderella,” Kendrick informed the Denver Post on the time. “The Disney character kind of scared me as a kid. There was real darkness to it that kind of freaked me out. But Sondheim’s Cinderella, which is taken largely from the Brothers Grimm, is really complicated.”

In this model, “it’s really fascinating to explore what drives a woman to be torn between abuse and neglect and a prince and a palace,” she defined. “Because she’s still not sure if the prince and the palace are going to make her happy. There’s a real question of why she’s so hesitant and wants to run away. It’s not because the dress disappears at midnight. It’s because she doesn’t know what she wants.”

Kenneth Branagh directed 2015’s lavish Cinderella, one of the vital live-action Disney remakes that is the entire rage at the moment, starring James because of the titular heroine, Richard Madden as Kit the prince and Cate Blanchett as depraved stepmother Lady Tremaine. The movie made $542 million international, Branagh’s largest field place of business haul thus far as a director.

“I auditioned some 7,000 instances for Cinderella,” James jokingly recalled to The Hindu in 2020. But she did take into account being undecided of herself, such a lot in order that she used to be the only soliciting for retakes. “I didn’t believe in myself. I couldn’t see what [Branagh] could see… I still struggle with it… I think it’s to do with control and, as an actor, you have to let go of that control… Being self-critical is almost like vanity.”