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Cinderella Up-to-Date
Also known as [Cinderella Up to Date]
(1909) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 950 feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Francis Ford
Méliès Star-Film [American] production; distributed by Gaston Méliès through Enterprise Optical Company. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / © 27 October 1909 by Georges Méliès [J133255]. Released 27 October 1909. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A young girl buys a nice pair of shoes. Delighted with her purchase, she takes the shoes home to show to her mother. What a disappointment! She finds only one shoe in the parcel! She returns to the store and tells the proprietor of her loss. He informs her that he has not found the other shoe. She looks in vain to recover her loss, but nowhere is it to be found. Not having any more money to buy a new pair, she is very much vexed. She reads in a newspaper an advertisement that a gentleman has found a very pretty little shoe and that he will be glad to return same to the owner any day. The young lady is convinced that the shoe belongs to her and decides to call on the gentleman. In the meantime, several other girls who have read the advertisement, see an opportunity of seeing the gentleman. When all these girls call on the man, he is very much provoked over the trouble that he has had with all the callers. There is not a pretty girl among all those who appeared. At last the young girl makes her appearance and the shoe fits her to perfection. The gentleman is fascinated with her and asks permission to call. The girl accepts. They fall in love and are shortly after married. The newspapers devote much space to the romance of the Cinderella up-to-date. Old maids and young girls are very much excited over the news and consider it a good method of securing a husband. The shoe store is besieged by ladies who purchase the best shoes. Each of the girls loses a shoe and hides herself until some gentleman picks it up. Then the girl leaves her place of concealment and at once lays claim to the shoe, incidentally complimenting the man very profusely. Some of the girls are successful in getting lovers, others are less fortunate. The last girl has an original idea. She attaches a string to a shoe and as soon as the man, who happens to be in this instance a poor invalid soldier, has picked it up, she runs quickly to him and thanks him very much. He likes her and they agree to marry.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 6 November 1909, page ?] A rather novel and interesting travesty on the old fairy story. In this instance the girl loses a shoe and an advertisement brings scores of girls whose feet could never go in the shoe by even the most powerful scheme of compression. And when at last the right girl proves her ownership, the inevitable wedding creates so much excitement that losing shoes becomes quite the fashion. Not ail the girls are successful in obtaining lovers, however, though many of them do. The conception and working out of this story is satisfactory. While it is professedly a travesty upon the old story, it is well done. The technical quality is maintained at a high standard of perfection, which adds materially to the attractiveness of the picture.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star p. 227 : ClasIm-226 p. 54 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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