A Kiss for Cinderella (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.[1][2][3][4]
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Directed by | Herbert Brenon |
Written by | James M. Barrie (play) Willis Goldbeck (scenario) Townsend Martin (scenario) |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
Starring | Betty Bronson Tom Moore Esther Ralston Dorothy Cumming |
Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 10 reels; 9,686 feet |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film (English intertitles) |
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
In London during World War One, a simple-minded slavey awaits her Fairy Godmother and her Prince Charming.
Cast
- Betty Bronson as Cinderella (Jane)
- Esther Ralston as Fairy Godmother
- Dorothy Cumming as Queen
- Tom Moore as Policeman
- Flora Finch as Customer
- Ivan F. Simpson as Mr. Cutaway (credited as Ivan Simpson)
- Edna Hagen as Gretchen
- Dorothy Walters as Mrs. Maloney
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).[5]
References
- The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..A Kiss for Cinderella
- A Kiss for Cinderella at silentera.com
- 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
- The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Kiss for Cinderella
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