A Modern Cinderella

A Modern Cinderella — Plot

This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements — a selfish step-sister, a put-upon beauty, a Prince Charming, and, of course, a lost slipper — but shifts the action to a contemporary boarding house. Cinderella, played by Mary Fuller, befriends an elderly resident, who buys a party outfit for her favorite when Cinderella’s elder sister preens for a dance. The new clothes transform the unassuming maiden into the toast of the ball. Finding Cinderella’s missing shoe, a dashing young man follows the clue to his grandmother, Cinderella’s friend at the boarding house, who works her magic to reunite the couple.

• Release date
• November 7, 1911
• Runtime
• 14 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• J. Searle Dawley

A Modern Cinderella — Cast

Mary Fuller A Modern Cinderella Darwin Karr A Modern Prince Charming Mabel Trunnelle

S

Sydney Booth

H

Harold M. Shaw

W

Walter Edwin