A Kiss for Cinderella (film)

A Kiss for Cinderella
1925 lobby poster
Directed byHerbert Brenon
Written byJames M. Barrie (play)
Willis Goldbeck (scenario)
Townsend Martin (scenario)
Based onCinderella by Charles Perrault
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
StarringBetty Bronson
Tom Moore
Esther Ralston
Dorothy Cumming
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 22, 1925 (1925-12-22)
Running time
10 reels; 9,686 feet
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
The full film.

A Kiss for Cinderella is a 1925 American silent fantasy film taken from the 1916 stage play by James M. Barrie. The film stars Betty Bronson and Tom Moore and was made at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens. The play had starred stage actress Maude Adams in the Bronson role. The film was seen by Walt Disney, and inspired him to create his company's 1950 animated adaptation. [1][2][3][4]

The film was directed by Herbert Brenon who had also directed the 1924 film version of Barrie's Peter Pan, which also starred Bronson. Tom Moore had previously costarred in The Cinderella Man for Goldwyn in 1917 alongside Mae Marsh.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[5] Jane, a house slavey who dreams of a Prince Charming, is named Cinderella by an artist whose studio she cleans because she always talks of wonderful things that will one day befall her. A policeman who at first suspects her of some mischief falls in love with her, and, after she recovers from an illness caused by exposure, he proposes and is accepted.

Cast

Preservation

Prints of A Kiss for Cinderella are preserved at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the foreign archive Cinematheque Royale de Belgique (Brussels).[6]

References

  1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..A Kiss for Cinderella
  3. ^ A Kiss for Cinderella at silentera.com
  4. ^ Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol2. FLE-POT p.634 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 ISBN 0-89356-241-6 (3 book set ISBN 0-89356-239-4) Retrieved June 27, 2018
  5. ^ "New Pictures: A Kiss for Cinderella", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (5), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 54, October 24, 1925, retrieved October 23, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Kiss for Cinderella
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