07 January 1913 27 mins
Sylvia and Janet lose their mother and are left destitute orphans. Jenny Smart (a leading moving picture actress) takes an interest in the girls and brings them to a studio. Sylvia is employed as a moving picture actress and is cast as the lead in a retelling of "Cinderella". A rare glimpse of filmmaking in Turin’s Ambrosio studio.
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Italy 07 January 1913
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Released on December 28 1914: While gathering wood a poor old woman in rags is abused by the sisters but Cinderella is kind to her and discovers that she ...
Actress Florence LaBadie.
Cinderella (1911
I added music by Chopin (performed by Moriz Rosenthal) for a musical score to this 1911 Thanhouser short starring Florence LaBadie.
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (French: Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse) is a 1913 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès based on the fairy tale ...
Filmed in 1911 by George Nichols and released through the Thanhouer Company this film attempts to tell the classic story in a single reel.
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