Cinderella (1950)

Academy Awards, USA 1951

Nominated Oscar	Best Music, Original Song Mack David Al Hoffman Jerry Livingston For the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
	Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Oliver Wallace Paul J. Smith
	Best Sound, Recording C.O. Slyfield

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Disney)

Orphaned Cinderella lives with her stepmother and stepsisters where she is relegated to the role of housemaid. Her only friends are the mice and birds that live around the estate. One day the King sends sends out an invitation to all eligible maids in the kingdom to a royal ball where he hopes his son will find a bride. Cinderella's stepsisters receive an invitation, but her stepmother will only allow her to go if she can finish all of the cleaning and find a suitable dress. When she accomplishes both, the stepsisters ruin her dress in a jealous fury, leaving Cinderella alone in the garden crying. Her "Fairy Godmother" appears out of nowhere, casting a spell which allows her to go the ball after all. She dances with the prince, who falls in love with her, only to leave abruptly at midnight when the spell ends. She leaves behind a glass slipper which, after much ado, reunites the couple. Disney's iconic story almost loses itself in the antics of the mice who have to contend with house cat Lucifer in Tom and Jerry fashion, but eventually finds itself when it returns to the main characters.