A Kiss for Cinderella (film) explained

A Kiss for Cinderella
Director:Herbert Brenon
Producer:Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Starring:Betty Bronson
Tom Moore
Esther Ralston
Dorothy Cumming
Cinematography:J. Roy Hunt
Distributor:Paramount Pictures
Runtime:10 reels; 9,686 feet
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

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]

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

As described in a film magazine review, Jane, a house slavey who dreams of a Prince Charming, is named Cinderella by an artist whose studio she cleans because she always talks of wonderful things that will one day befall her. A policeman who at first suspects her of some mischief falls in love with her, and, after she recovers from an illness caused by exposure, he proposes and is accepted.

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  2. http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10095 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..A Kiss for Cinderella
  3. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KissForCinderella1925.html A Kiss for Cinderella at silentera.com
  4. Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol2. FLE-POT p.634 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 (3 book set) Retrieved June 27, 2018
  5. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.806/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Kiss for Cinderella