Cinderella (1950)
- The original script for Cinderella was written over a decade before production finally began in 1950.
- Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- Before Ilene Woods was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy produced by Walt Disney Productions, one of the studio's most important and influential films. Based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, the film follows the gentle, kind-hearted Cinderella, who is forced into servitude by her cruel stepmother Lady Tremaine and stepsisters after her father's death. When an invitation to the royal ball arrives, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother magically transforms her rags into a beautiful gown, a pumpkin into a carriage, and mice into horses, with the caveat that the spell will break at midnight.
Cinderella was the film that saved Walt Disney's studio โ following a decade of financial losses during World War II that nearly bankrupted the company, the film's massive commercial success restored Disney's fortunes and financed the construction of Disneyland. The songs "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" became Disney standards, and the glass slipper became one of the most recognized symbols in fairy tale iconography. Cinderella was nominated for three Academy Awards.
