A Kiss for Cinderella
About A Kiss for Cinderella
During the war in London, Jane cleans an artist's studio and is nicknamed Cinderella because she talks of wonderful things to come. A policeman who first suspects her finds that she runs a Penny Friend shop for four war orphans, and he stays to help. She falls asleep in the snow and dreams of a pumpkin coach and a fairy godmother. Illness follows the exposure. He proposes, and she accepts.
Cast & crew
More about A Kiss for Cinderella
Herbert Brenon directed it at Paramount's Astoria Studios from J. M. Barrie's 1916 play. Willis Goldbeck and Townsend Martin wrote the scenario. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky produced it for Paramount. Julian Boone Fleming was art director. New York opened it on December 25, 1925; Los Angeles and Chicago opened it the next day. Famous Players-Lasky copyrighted it on January 11, 1926.
Themes
Background
Barrie's play is set in London in the First World War. The film keeps the air-raid scare, the orphans, and the slavey's dream of a ball.
Look
J. Roy Hunt photographed the Astoria production, including the snow scene and the dream ball.
Preservation
A circulating copy runs 1 hour, 42 minutes, and 55 seconds.
Notes
- Betty Bronson plays Jane, called Cinderella. Tom Moore plays the policeman. Esther Ralston plays the fairy godmother.
- Brenon had directed Bronson in the 1924 Peter Pan, also from Barrie.
- The play opened in London on March 16, 1916, with Hilda Trevelyan, and later on Broadway with Maude Adams.
- The AFI Catalog, citing a 2008 Los Angeles Times obituary, lists Anita Page in an uncredited role.
- The negative is listed at 10 reels, 9,686 feet. A circulating copy runs 1 hour 42 minutes.
Scenes
- Jane sleeps in the snow and dreams of the pumpkin coach.
- The policeman proposes after she recovers from the exposure.
Influenced by
- J. M. Barrie's play A Kiss for Cinderella (1916)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
