The Glass Slipper

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s r It has its moments, but not those that last. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review bill t a bit of an oddball Cinderella tale here. I did like the modern approach without a lot of magic, but there are elements in the story that were a little bizarre, almost surreal. the ballet stuff didn't really do much for me, and this film probably had the worst day for night shots ever. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Leslie Caron was a good choice to play the lead in MGM's uneven musical version of "Cinderella;" there's more talk than music, and Michael Wilding is an uncomfortable prince. One nice song, "Take My Love." Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Great Ballet Musical starring Leslie Caron in 1955 Cinderella with awesome short hair style! The Prince Charles and Princess Diana! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Leslie Caron is a charming Cinderella and there is some very magical production design, but there are some pretty dull stretches of dialogue and the dance numbers are pretty stagy (actually taking place on a stage even). I love Caron, but she can only carry this duo film so far. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Narrator (Walter Pidgeon): "The little spirit is still defiant and defensive, still unbroken. But give them time they'll break it. A few more years and she will stop fighting back and will no longer feel any pain, the others will then have the convenience of an un-pained spinster slavey in the house-- willing, docile, grateful for crumbs. A few more years then all will be peaceful." This film was actually cute and an interesting take on the old Cinderella fairytale; but in this film, they made Ella (Cinderella) so simple, she seemed more retarded rather than give the impression of Ella having a child-like naiveté and innocence. But I guess, they wanted to express how child-like she was, which was kind of creepy when someone who was mentally underdeveloped and who was basically the equivalent of a country-bumpkin was (for all intent and purpose) seduced by someone more worldly, like Prince Charles who by the film's descriptions has been well educated in all of the elite schools all over Europe. Or maybe it's just me and my cynical mind reading too much between the lines and imagined an eerie unspoken subplot. But I do like how Ella and the Prince fell for each other through their dancing, I thought that was very charming and truly unique. Also, I was hoping Cinderella had a more amazing transformation; I mean seriously, how can her stepmother and stepsister not recognize her? She hardly wore a disguise, at the very least a powdered wig of some sort. ****SPOILER ALERT*** But I guess the film got around it by not having the characters interact in close proximity once Ella was transformed. I also liked that her odd appearance, specifically her uncharacteristically short coif (and preoccupation with finding Charles the cook's son), led to the speculation that she was a foreigner because she wouldn't utter a word, which in turn propagated the rumor that the Prince was to marry an Egyptian Princess... a convenient twist and made the film's customarily straight-forward plot, a bit more interesting. Plus the dance sequence for Ella's day-dream of the Prince marrying the Egyptian Princess was truly heart-breaking even without a single spoken dialogue because the choreography and Caron's dancing spoke volumes and relayed her emotion so perfectly that it transcended the need for words. I have never appreciated dancing in this context before. I also liked that Ella fell in love with the "cook's son from the palace of the Duke".... isn't that how it should be? Women have always been taught to dream about marrying a Prince when in truth, as long as he loves you, it doesn't matter what his station is in life, he'll always be your knight in shinning armor and that was a good lesson. Overall, I really liked this movie and would even say that it's as good, if not better than the Disney animated version. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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