Fresh
The musical numbers woven into the fantasy are generally solid, with at least two or three likely hit tunes standing out in the half-dozen songs.
Variety Staff, Variety
Cinderella
The greatest love story ever told.
1950 · 1h 14m · G
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Clyde Geronimi
,
Wilfred Jackson
,
Hamilton Luske
Overview
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!
Director and cast
- Clyde Geronimi Director
- Wilfred Jackson Director
- Hamilton Luske Director
- Ilene Woods as Cinderella (voice)
- Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine (voice)
- Verna Felton as Fairy Godmother (voice)
- Claire Du Brey as (credit only) (voice)
- Rhoda Williams as Drizella (voice)
- James MacDonald as Bruno / Gus / Jaques (voice)
- Helene Stanley as (credit only)
- Luis van Rooten as King / Grand Duke (voice)
- Don Barclay as Doorman (voice)
- Lucille Bliss Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This 1950 effort shows Disney at the tail end of his best period, when his backgrounds were still luminous with depth and detail and his incidental characters still had range and bite.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Considering the army of craftsmen who work on a Disney cartoon film, it is hard to give individual credits, for the memorable qualities.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
When those little mice bust a gut trying to drag that key up hundreds of stairs in order to free Cinderella, I don't care how many Kubrick pictures you've seen, it's still exciting.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Cinderella is beguiling proof that Walt Disney still knows his way around fairyland.
TIME Magazine
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