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Ella Cinders

192675 minUnited States
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Ella works for an unkind stepmother and dreams of escape through a movie competition. A photograph that seems disastrous wins the judges' attention for its comic possibilities. Hollywood offers a new setting for her hopes, but entering the film business proves less simple than winning the trip.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
87:43
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Alfred E. Green · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsAlfred Edward Green

Inspirations

Colleen Moore's comedy adapts the comic strip by William M. Conselman and Charles Plumb, which reworks Cinderella. Scenes at the studio also bring familiar film personalities into Ella's imagined route out of domestic drudgery.

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