Ella Cinders

19261926
PassedPassed
1h 15m

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, w... Read allPoor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that... Read allPoor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she... Read all

6.8/10

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Director
- Alfred E. Green
Writers
- Mervyn LeRoy(story)
- Frank Griffin(story)
- George Marion Jr.(titles)
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Awards
- 1 win

Wendell Phillips Franklin and Colleen Moore in Ella Cinders (1926)

Wendell Phillips Franklin in Ella Cinders (1926)

John D. Bloss, Colleen Moore, and Audrey Howell in Ella Cinders (1926)

Billy Butts, Malcolm Sebastian, and Buddy Smith in Ella Cinders (1926)

Lloyd Hughes and Colleen Moore in Ella Cinders (1926)

Director
- Alfred E. Green
Writers
- Mervyn LeRoy(story) (scenario)
- Frank Griffin(story) (scenario)
- George Marion Jr.(titles)
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Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love. —John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>

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Taglines
- A COMEDY ON THE MOVIES WITH THE IRREPRESSIBLE COLEEN MOORE! (original print ad-all caps)
Genres
- Comedy
- Romance
Certificate
- Passed
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
The eye exercise scene was done by cutting a piece of black paper and taping one-half of the camera to it, so that one eye could be filmed making eye movements; the paper was then moved to the other half of the camera to film the other eye making its movements, so that the end result was both eyes going at different directions all at once.

Connections
Featured in Hollywood (1980)

Top review

9/10

Cinderella Goes to Hollywood

Ella Cinders is like a modern day (well, for the 1920s) Cinderella story. A poor girl (Colleen Moore) living in a house with her stepmother and stepsisters like a servant has only things going right for her. She has the love of a sweet man in town (Lloyd Hughes) and a film contest that she wins. A group of men hold a beauty contest in town and the prize is a trip to Hollywood to become an actress. The stepsisters and half of the town think they will win the prize, but a funny picture puts Ella in the spotlight, sending her on a train to Hollywood. Once there, she finds that the place isn't what she dreamed it would be, but she cannot go home so she does her best to succeed.

Harry Langdon makes a very funny but short appearance in the movie. Even without his appearance, this movie would be a jewel. It is quickly paced, very funny, and stars one of the major stars of the silent era. Unfortunately, this film, along with most of Colleen Moore's other movies, is not commercially available. Bad bootleg prints are all that we will see until someone wises up to the quality of this movie and releases it on a quality DVD.

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