Ella Cinders
About Ella Cinders
Ella Cinders is worked as a servant by her stepmother and stepsisters. She enters a beauty contest, wins a trip to Hollywood and a promised contract, and finds the contest was a cheat. She gets into pictures anyway, and a romance with it.
Cast & crew
More about Ella Cinders
Alfred E. Green directed. John McCormick, Colleen Moore's husband, produced it. Frank Griffin wrote the screenplay from the comic strip by William M. Conselman and Charles Plumb, itself drawn from Cinderella. First National distributed it. Arthur Martinelli photographed it. Lloyd Hughes, Moore's co-star in several films of the period, plays opposite her.
Themes
Look
Arthur Martinelli photographed it.
Preservation
Selected for the National Film Registry in 2013. Public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Moore plays Ella.
- The strip and the film both lean on the Cinderella story.
- The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Ella arrives in Hollywood and learns the contract does not exist.
Influenced by
- Cinderella
- Ella Cinders (comic strip)
