Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney. Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, it is the twelfth Disney animated feature film. The film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackson. Mack David, Jerry Livingston, and Al Hoffman wrote the songs, which include "Cinderella", "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "Oh, Sing Sweet Nightingale", "The Work Song", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", and "So This is Love". It features the voices of Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, James MacDonald, Luis van Rooten, Don Barclay, Mike Douglas, William Phipps, and Lucille Bliss.
During the early 1940s, Walt Disney Productions had suffered financially after losing connections to the European film markets due to the outbreak of World War II. Because of this, the studio endured box office bombs such as Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), and Bambi (1942), all of which would later become more successful with several re-releases in theaters and on home video. By 1947, the studio was over $4 million in debt and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Walt Disney and his animators returned to feature film production in 1948 after producing a string of package films with the idea of adapting Charles Perrault's Cendrillon into an animated film.
After two years in production, Cinderella was released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 15, 1950. It became the greatest critical and commercial hit for the Disney studio since the first full-length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and helped reverse the studio's fortunes. It received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Music, Original Song for "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo".
Decades later, it was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007), and a 2015 live-action adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh. The castle featured in the film has become an icon of The Walt Disney Company, serving as a basis for the production logo of Walt Disney Pictures. A real life construction of the castle was built at the Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World, as well at Tokyo Disneyland.
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
English[]
Release date:
- USA - 15 February 1950 (Boston, Massachusetts)
- USA - 22 February 1950 (Chicago, Illinois)
- USA - 22 February 1950 (New York City, New York)
- USA - 4 March 1950
- Canada - 7 April 1950 (Toronto)
- Australia - 8 December 1950
- UK - 22 December 1950
- New Zealand - 9 February 1951
- USA - 14 February 1957 (re-release)
- USA - 9 June 1965 (re-release)
- UK - 22 December 1968 (re-release)
- USA - 23 March 1973 (re-release)
- Ireland - 16 December 1977 (re-release)
- USA - 18 December 1981 (re-release)
- Australia - 26 August 1982 (re-release)
- UK - 20 October 1986 (re-release)
- Ireland - 31 July 1987 (re-release)
- USA - 20 November 1987 (re-release)
- Australia - 11 April 1991 (re-release)
- UK - 19 July 1991 (re-release)
- Ireland - 9 August 1991 (re-release)
- UK & Ireland - 4 April 2011 (Royal Edition DVD)
- USA - 4 May 2013 (Montclair Film Festival)
Name | Dubber |
---|---|
Cinderella | Ilene Woods |
Lady Tremaine | Eleanor Audley |
Fairy Godmother | Verna Felton |
Drizella Tremaine | Rhoda Williams |
Bruno | James MacDonald |
Gus | |
Jaq | |
Grand Duke | Luis Van Rooten |
The King |
Albanian[]
Title: Hirushja
Release date:
- 2002 (VHS, DVD, TV / 1st dub)
- 2015 (TV / 2nd dub)
Egyptian Arabic[]
Standard Arabic[]
Brazilian Portuguese[]
Title: Cinderela
Release date:
- 12 March 1951
- 24 June 1963 (re-release)
- 13 December 1991 (re-release)
Bulgarian[]
The Bulgarian dub of Cinderella, Пепеляшка, was released in 2005 by the dubbing studio Aleksandra Audio.
Canadian French[]
Title: Cinderella
Croatian[]
Title: Pepeljuga
Czech[]
Title: Popelka
Release date: 10 July 1970
Danish[]
Title: Askepot
Release date:
- 18 November 1950
- 26 December 1967 (re-release)
Dutch[]
Title: Assepoester
Release date:
- 7 December 1950
- 28 June 1991 (re-release)
European French[]
Title: Cendrillon
Release date:
- 22 December 1950 (Paris)
- 17 December 1958 (re-release)
- 13 December 1967 (re-release)
- 6 December 1978 (re-release)
- 2 July 1986 (re-release)
- 17 April 1991 (re-release)
- 20 July 2005 (re-release)
European Portuguese[]
Title: Cinderela - A Gata Borralheira
Release date: 21 December 1950
Finnish[]
Title: Tuhkimo (reissue title) / Satu Tuhkimosta
Release date:
- 15 December 1950
- 15 December 1967 (re-release)
- 17 December 1976 (re-release)
German[]
Title: Cinderella
Release date:
- West Germany - 23 June 1951 (Berlin International Film Festival)
- West Germany - 21 December 1951
- Austria - 5 December 1952
- West Germany - 15 June 1960 (Berlin International Film Festival)
- West Germany - 18 July 1980 (re-release)
- Germany - 27 October 2005 (DVD premiere)
Greek[]
Title: Σταχτοπούτα
Hebrew[]
Title: סינדרלה
Release date: 17 March 1951
Hindi[]
Title: सिंडरेला
Hungarian[]
Title: Hamupipőke
Icelandic[]
Title: Öskubuska
Italian[]
Title: Cenerentola
Release date:
- 19 August 1950 (Venice Film Festival)
- 15 September 1950
- 19 December 1958 (re-release)
- 22 December 1967 (re-release)
- 19 December 1975 (re-release)
- 17 December 1982 (re-release)
- 30 June 2012 (re-release)
Japanese[]
Title: シンデレラ
Release date:
- 13 March 1952
- 18 March 1961 (re-release)
- 23 March 1974 (re-release)
- 17 July 1982 (re-release)
- 18 July 1987 (re-release)
- 11 April 1992 (re-release)
- 7 August 2008 (Hiroshima International Animation Festival)
Kazakh[]
Title: Күлшеқыз / Külşeqyz (Cinderella)
Release date: March 8, 2015
Korean[]
Title: 신데렐라
Release date: 26 July 1962
Latin Spanish 1950[]
Title: La cenicienta
Release date:
- Argentina - 2 January 1951
- Uruguay - 9 January 1951
- Mexico - 17 January 1951
- Argentina - 9 January 1992 (re-release)
Latin Spanish 1997[]
Lithuanian[]
Title: Pelenė
Malay[]
Mandarin Chinese[]
Mandarin Chinese TV[]
Norwegian[]
Title: Askepott
Release date: 26 December 1950
Persian[]
Title: سیندرل
Polish[]
Title: Kopciuszek
Release date: 23 October 1961
Romanian[]
Title: Cenusareasa
Russian[]
Title: Золушка
Serbian[]
Title: Пепељуга
Slovak[]
Slovene[]
Title: Pepelka
Swedish[]
Title: Askungen
Release date:
- 18 December 1950
- 26 December 1958 (re-release)
- 18 September 1967 (re-release)
- 30 March 1985 (re-release)
- 9 August 1991 (re-release)
Tagalog (Fandub)[]
Title: Cinderella
Release date:
- 10 July 2019
Name | Dubber |
---|---|
Cinderella | Jessa Mae Dagami |
Fairygod mother & Drizella | Judith Adonis |
Prince Charming & Lady Tremaine | Charlina Tajos |
Drizella | Jessica Salazar |
Anastasia | Daisy Mae Gucela |
Granduke | Rosa Ina |
King | Ma. Lourdes Tiday |
Gus | Jason Sequeña |
Jaq | Renelea Montaño |
Thai[]
Title: ซินเดอเรลล่า
Turkish[]
Title: Kül Kedisi Sinderella
Ukranian[]
Title: Попелюшка
Vietnamese[]
Title: Cô Bé Lọ Lem