Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders (1926)

A COMEDY ON THE MOVIES WITH THE IRREPRESSIBLE COLEEN MOORE!

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 discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Date of release
1926-06-06
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
Alfred E. Green

Casting

Interesting facts

Ella Cinders is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Colleen Moore, produced by her husband John McCormick, and featuring Moore's recurring co-star, Lloyd Hughes. The film is based on the syndicated comic strip of the same name by William M. Conselman and Charles Plumb, which in turn was based upon the millennia-old folk tale of Cinderella.

Production

Portions of the film take place on the sets of a movie studio, so many regulars at First National Studios appear in the film. The film's director, Alfred E. Green, appears in the film as the director of the film being shot as Ella Cinders (Colleen Moore) runs through the studio. Harry Langdon also makes a cameo in the film as a famous film comedian who is being directed by a young Frank Capra.

The character of George Waite/Waite Lifter (Lloyd Hughes) was a parody of real-life football star Red Grange, who likewise played at the University of Illinois and worked as an iceman during the offseason. This was the last time that Moore and Hughes starred together in a film, having previously played the leads in The Huntress (1923), Sally (1925), The Desert Flower (1925) and Irene (1926).

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