Cinderella

Ages 4–108 minClassics

A kind girl, two cruel stepsisters, and a fairy godmother's midnight magic — Perrault's beloved fairy tale of a glass slipper and a ball.

A kind young girl in a sparkling gold-and-silver gown pausing on a grand palace staircase at night, one little glass slipper left behind on the step, warm candlelight glowing from the ballroom doorway behind her. — Adapted from Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale (Cendrillon), in Charles Welsh's 1901 English translation.

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