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Rob Lowe
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Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor. He came to prominence in the 1980s, playing teen and young adult roles in such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, St. Elmos Fire. However, he continued acting in less prominent film roles, and went on to roles in television series such as The West Wing, Brothers & Sisters. Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, the son of Barbara Lynn, a schoolteacher and native of Ohio, and Charles Davis Lowe and his parents divorced when Lowe and his younger brother, actor Chad, were very young. As a result of a virus during infancy, he is deaf in his right ear, Lowe was baptized into the Episcopal church. He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish, on the show Who Do You Think You Are. Lowe found out one of his ancestors, Christopher East, was a Hessian soldier. His ancestor was fighting under the command of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall and was captured at the American Victory at Trenton, as an American POW, his ancestor was given a choice, and took the option to stay in the US. Lowe was raised in a traditional setting in Dayton, Ohio, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California. Lowe attended Santa Monica High School, as did fellow actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey, Jr. Sean Penn and his breakthrough role was his big screen debut in 1983, when he and Emilio Estevez were cast in Francis Ford Coppolas The Outsiders. Lowe played the role of Sodapop Curtis, the brother of the main character Ponyboy Curtis, Lowe and Estevez reunited in St. Elmos Fire, making them the two more prominent actors from the group known as the Brat Pack. He then received his second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the mentally disabled Rory in Square Dance, in August,1987 he performed on stage, playing Baron Tusenbach in Chekovs The Three Sisters at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Lowe is well known for playing Sam Seaborn in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2003 and his performance in the show garnered Lowe a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Lowe was drawn to the role because of his love of politics, and his longstanding personal relationship with Martin Sheen. When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, Lowe and series creator Aaron Sorkin soon found themselves at odds over the networks meddling with the show, most notably the network demanding changes in the Sam Seaborn character. Eventually, Lowe left the series, not long before Sorkin, during the final season of The West Wing, Lowe returned to his role of Sam Seaborn, appearing in two of the final four episodes. In 2011, Lowe appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and stated that he left the show because he did not feel he was being respected, after leaving the show, Lowe was the star and executive producer of a failed NBC drama, The Lyons Den. In 2004, he tried again in a series entitled Dr. Vegas, in 2005, he starred as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in a London West End production of Sorkins play A Few Good Men, the first time the two had worked together since The West Wing
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Jennifer Grey
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Jennifer Grey is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the 1980s films Ferris Buellers Day Off and Dirty Dancing and she is also known for her 2010 victory in season eleven of the American version of Strictly Come Dancing. Grey is the daughter of Academy Award–winning actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder, Grey currently stars in the Amazon Studios comedy series Red Oaks. Grey was born on March 26,1960 in Manhattan, the daughter of stage and Academy Award-winning screen actor Joel Grey and her paternal grandfather was comedian and musician Mickey Katz. Greys parents both came from Jewish families, Grey is an alumna of the Dalton School, a private school in Manhattan where she studied dance and acting, and where she met her best friend, actress Tracy Pollan. After graduating in 1978, Grey enrolled at Manhattans Neighborhood Playhouse for two years of training as an actress, while waiting for roles, she supported herself waitressing. Greys commercial debut was at the age of 19, in an ad for Dr Pepper before making her debut in Reckless. She appeared in a role in Francis Ford Coppolas The Cotton Club. That year she starred in the war film Red Dawn and she then appeared in the 1985 John Badham project American Flyers. In 1986 she played the role of jealous sister Jeanie Bueller in the John Hughes comedy film Ferris Buellers Day Off, the film was considered commercially successful and received a positive critical reception. The following year, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, whom she had played opposite in Red Dawn, the story is a coming of age drama that documents a teenage girls rebellion against her father by starting a relationship with a dance instructor during the familys summer vacation. The low-budget film was a hit, the first film to sell one million copies on video. The film also defined Greys career, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the role, Greys sole Broadway theatre credit is her 1993 appearance in The Twilight of the Golds. Of the experience she said, I went in the room a celebrity—and came out anonymous. It was like being in a protection program or being invisible. She briefly considered changing her name in order to start her career anew, from March 1999 until January 2000, Grey starred as herself in the short-lived ABC sitcom Its Like, You Know. which satirized her much-publicized nose job as a running gag. Grey appeared with Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, and Kathy Bates in the CBS television movie The West Side Waltz and she appeared in one episode of Friends as Mindy, a high school friend of Jennifer Anistons character Rachel. She had a role in the 2000 film Bounce with Gwyneth Paltrow
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Canal+
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Canal+ is a French premium cable television channel launched in 1984. It is 100% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA, the channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted. Unencrypted programming can be viewed free of charge on Canal+ and on satellite on Canal+ Clair, after the announcement about the launch of the fourth French television channel, Canal+ started broadcasting on 4 November 1984. In 1986, the channel had one million subscribers and it has produced numerous films of auteurs, including David Lynchs The Straight Story, Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire. With the launch of the satellite channel CanalSatellite on 27 April 1996. A fourth channel, called Canal+ Vert came along on 31 August 1998, the channels changed their names to Canal+ Confort, Canal+ Cinéma and Canal+ Sport in 1 November 2003. In September 2005, Canal+, Canal+ Cinéma and Canal+ Sport started broadcasting in the French digital terrestrial television network, the free-to-air parts of Canal+ had already been broadcasting for a few months by then. In August 2008, Canal+ started broadcasting the encrypted parts of its channel in high-definition in the terrestrial network. Canal+ announced plans to turn off the analogue signals by 2010. In February 2013, for €29 million per year, Canal+ bought the TV rights for the FIA Formula One World Championship, the same year, the group bought the rights of the English Premier League, the most watched football league in the world. In July 2014, the launch of a new pan-African TV channel - A+ - was announced, based in Abidjan, it aims to become the leading television company in French-speaking Africa. American animated TV Shows, American Dad, drawn Together, Family Guy, South Park and The Tom and Jerry Show. American reality TV Shows, The Simple Life, japanese animated TV Shows, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monster, Noir and Samurai Champloo. British TV Shows, Skins, Merlin, Wire in the Blood, The Office, canadian TV shows, Flashpoint, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Life with Derek, Naturally Sadie, Total Drama, Revenge of the Island. Canadian/French TV Shows, Donkey Kong Country French erotic TV series, X Femmes South Korean TV Series, prior to 2008 it was called Canal+ Le Bouquet. As Canal+ was launched in new markets the brand has used in several countries. When launching additional channels the channels were usually given colour-coded names, such as Canal+ Blue, Canal+ Green, many of these subsidiaries have been sold and as of 2007, only the Spanish and Polish Canal+ were partially owned by French Canal+. Canal+ Spain, launched in 1990 in Spain by Sogecable as a pay channel
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is the home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio. It was established in 1977 as Magnetic Video and was known as 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video and FoxVideo. CBS/Fox became FoxVideo in 1991, alternating with the CBS/Fox name until 1998 and it was renamed as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1995, alternating with the FoxVideo name until 1998. They serve as a UK distributor for Pathé movies and their library for home media releases. Fox also distributed Yari Film Group DVD titles in North America, TCFHE also distributes MGM and United Artists titles since MGM ended their home video agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. They also distribute titles from Relativity Media, EuropaCorp U. S. Foxs best selling DVD titles are currently the various box sets of The Simpsons. They also once served as the U. S and they also distributed HIT Entertainment releases in 2006 until 2008 when video distribution moved to Lionsgate Home Entertainment, then Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. In late 2006, the company began releasing its titles on Blu-ray
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Cinderella
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Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world, the title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances, that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The oldest documented version comes from China, and the oldest European version from Italy, the most popular version was first published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697, and later by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms Fairy Tales. Although the storys title and main characters change in different languages. The word Cinderella has, by analogy, come to one whose attributes were unrecognized, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity. The still-popular story of Cinderella continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, the Aarne–Thompson system classifies Cinderella as the persecuted heroine. The story of Rhodopis, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is considered the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story, a version of the story, Ye Xian, appeared in Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang by Duan Chengshi around 860. Here, the hardworking and lovely girl befriends a fish, the rebirth of her mother, the fish is later killed by her stepmother and sister. Ye Xian saves the bones, which are magic, and they help her dress appropriately for the New Year Festival, when she loses her slipper after being recognized by her stepfamily, the king finds her slipper and falls in love with her. The Indonesian and Malaysian story Bawang Merah Bawang Putih, are two girls named Bawang Putih and Bawang Merah. While the two countrys respective versions differ in the relationship of the girls and the identity of the protagonist. Both have a fish as the fairy godmother to her daughter. The heroine then finds the bones and buries them, and over the grave a magical swing appears, the protagonist sits on the swing and sings to make it sway, her song reaching the ears of a passing Prince. The swing is akin to the slipper test, which distinguishes the heroine from her sister. In Indonesia, Bawang Putih is the girl, who suffers at the hands of her evil stepmother and stepsister, Bawang Merah. When the Prince enquires after the singer on the swing, Bawang Merah lies, the angry prince forces Bawang Merah and her mother to tell the truth. They then admit that there is another daughter in the house, Bawang Putih comes out and moves the magical swing by her singing. In the end, she and her prince marry and live happily ever after, in the Malaysian version, it is Bawang Merah and her mother Mak Labu who are good, while her half sister Bawang Putih and her mother Mak Kundur are evil
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Charles Perrault
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Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new genre, the fairy tale. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, Cendrillon, Le Chat Botté, La Belle au bois Dormant, some of Perraults versions of old stories have influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later. The stories continue to be printed and have adapted to opera, ballet, theatre. Perrault was a figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients. Perrault was born in Paris to a bourgeois family, the seventh child of Pierre Perrault. He attended very good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service and he took part in the creation of the Academy of Sciences as well as the restoration of the Academy of Painting. In 1654, he moved in with his brother Pierre, who had purchased a post as the tax collector of the city of Paris. When the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres was founded in 1663, Perrault was appointed its secretary and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne were also appointed. His design was chosen over designs by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and François Mansart, in 1668, Perrault wrote La Peinture to honor the kings first painter, Charles Le Brun. He also wrote Courses de tetes et de bague, written to commemorate the 1662 celebrations staged by Louis for his mistress, Louise-Françoise de La Baume le Blanc, Perrault was elected to the Académie française in 1671. He married Marie Guichon, age 19, in 1672, she died in 1678, in 1669 Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains each representing one of the fables of Aesop in the labyrinth of Versailles in the gardens of Versailles. The work was carried out between 1672 and 1677, water jets spurting from the animals mouths were conceived to give the impression of speech between the creatures. There was a plaque with a caption and a written by the poet Isaac de Benserade next to each fountain. Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, Labyrinte de Versailles, printed at the press, Paris, in 1677. Philippe Quinault, a family friend of the Perraults, quickly gained a reputation as the librettist for the new musical genre known as opera. He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de Louis le Grand, Le Siècle de Louis le Grand was written in celebration of Louis XIVs recovery from a life-threatening operation. Perrault argued that because of Louiss enlightened rule, the present age was superior in respect to ancient times
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Brothers Grimm
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Their first collection of folk tales, Childrens and Household Tales, was published in 1812. The brothers spent their formative years in the German town of Hanau and their fathers death in 1796 caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years after. They both attended the University of Marburg where they developed a curiosity about German folklore, which grew into a dedication to collecting German folk tales. The rise of romanticism during the 19th century revived interest in folk stories. With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, between 1812 and 1857, their first collection was revised and republished many times, growing from 86 stories to more than 200. The popularity of the Grimms best folk tales has endured well, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was born on 4 January 1785 and his brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm on 24 February 1786. They were the second- and third-eldest surviving siblings in a family of nine children, in 1791, the family moved to the countryside town of Steinau, when Philipp was employed there as district magistrate. The family became prominent members of the community, residing in a home surrounded by fields. Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy in Steinau, the children were educated at home by private tutors, receiving strict instruction as Lutherans that instilled in both a lifelong religious faith. In 1796, Philipp Grimm died of pneumonia, plunging his family into poverty, Dorothea depended on financial support from her father and sister, first lady-in-waiting at the court of William I, Elector of Hesse. Jacob was the eldest living son, and he was forced at age 11 to assume adult responsibilities for the two years. The two boys adhered to the advice of their grandfather, who continually exhorted them to be industrious, the brothers left Steinau and their family in 1798 to attend the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel, which had been arranged and paid for by their aunt. By then, they were without a provider, forcing them to rely entirely on each other. The two brothers differed in temperament, Jacob was introspective and Wilhelm was outgoing, sharing a strong work ethic, they excelled in their studies. In Kassel, they became aware of their inferior social status relative to high-born students who received more attention. Still, each brother graduated at the head of his class, Jacob in 1803, after graduation from the Friedrichsgymnasium, the brothers attended the University of Marburg. The university was small with about 200 students and there they became aware that students of lower social status were not treated equally. They were disqualified from admission because of their standing and had to request dispensation to study law
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Fairy godmother
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In fairy tales, a fairy godmother is a fairy with magical powers who acts as a mentor or parent to someone, in the role that an actual godparent was expected to play in many societies. In Perraults Cinderella, he concludes the tale with the moral that no personal advantages will suffice without proper connections. The fairy godmother is a case of the donor. Actual fairy godmothers are rare in fairy tales, but became familiar figures because of the popularity of the fairy tales of Madame dAulnoy and other précieuses. Many other supernatural patrons feature in fairy tales, these various kinds of animals. The fairy godmother has her roots in the figures of the Fates, this is clear in Sleeping Beauty, where they decree her fate. Typically, the fairy godmothers protégé is a prince or princess and the hero of the story, the most well-known example is probably the fairy godmother in Charles Perraults Cinderella. Eight fairy godmothers appear in The Sleeping Beauty, of Charles Perraults, the popularity of these versions of these tales led to this being widely regarded as a common fairy-tale motif, although they are less common in other tales. Indeed, the fairy godmothers were added to The Sleeping Beauty by Perrault, no such figures appeared in his source, Sole, Luna, in the Grimm Brothers variant of Cinderella, Aschenputtel is aided not by her fairy godmother but by her dead mother. A great variety of figures may also take this place. She is portrayed as kind, gentle and sweet, likewise, in her The White Doe, the fairy godmother helps the evil princess get revenge on the heroine. In Henriette-Julie de Murats Bearskin, the heroine has a fairy godmother, but she is offended that the marriage was arranged without consulting her. Fairy godmothers appear frequently in fantasy, especially comic versions and retellings of Cinderella. Whenever events are right for a tale to recur, the relevant Fairy Godmother steps in to make sure that the tale in question runs its course with as few fatalities as possible. In the television animated Halloween special Witchs Night Out, the witch is mistaken for a fairy godmother by the two children, Small and Tender and their sitter, Bazooey corrects them by addressing the fairy godmother as a wicked witch. The Fairly OddParents is a humorous animated TV Series where the fairies Cosmo, in Shrek 2, the fairy godmother who appears is an evil twin sister of Cinderellas fairy godmother. She is a conniving, crooked businesswoman, who is willing to resort to blackmail and/or murder to further her own interests. The Discworld novel Witches Abroad also features a fairy godmother, Lady Lilith de Tempscire
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Stepmother
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A stepmother or stepmom is the wife of ones biological father, who is not ones biological mother. Step parents may also face some societal challenges due to the surrounding the evil stepmother character. Morello notes that the introduction of the evil character in the past is problematic to stepparents today. The presence of this stigma has had a powerful, negative impact on stepmothers self-esteems, in fiction, stepmothers are often portrayed as being wicked and evil. The character of the wicked stepmother features heavily in fairy tales, the most famous examples are Cinderella, Snow White, in some fairy tales, the stepdaughters escape by marrying does not free her from her stepmother. After the birth of the stepdaughters first child, the stepmother may attempt to murder the new mother and replace her with her own daughter—thus making her the stepmother to the next generation. Such a replacement occurs in The Wonderful Birch, Brother and Sister, in the Korean Folktale Janghwa Hongryeon jeon, the stepmother kills her own stepdaughters. In many stories with evil stepmothers, the hostility between the stepmother and the stepchild is underscored by having the child succeed through aid from the dead mother. The notion of the word stepmother being descriptive of an intrinsically unkind parent is suggested by peculiar wording in John Gambles An Irish Wake and he writes of a woman soon to die, who instructs her successor to be kind to my children. Gamble writes that the injunction was forgotten and that she proved a very step-mother, the Icelandic fairy tale The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnfoder features a good stepmother, who indeed aids the prince like a fairy godmother, but this figure is very rare in fairy tales. The stepmother may be identified with other evils the characters meet and this hostility from the stepmother and tenderness from the true mother has been interpreted in varying ways. A psychological interpretation, by Bruno Bettelheim, describes it as splitting the actual mother in an ideal mother, in some fairy tales, such as The Juniper Tree, the stepmothers hostility is overtly the desire to secure the inheritance of her children. Stepmothers also make appearances in Chinese tales of family. In Classic of Filial Piety, Guo Jujing told the story of Min Ziqian and his stepmother had two more sons and saw to it that they were warmly dressed in winter but neglected her stepson. When her husband discovered this, he decided to divorce her and his son interceded, on the ground that she neglected only him, but when they had no mother, all three sons would be neglected. His father relented, and the stepmother henceforth took care of all three children, for this, he was held up as a model of filial piety. Conversely, the exemplary stepmother prefers the stepson to her own child, the ubiquity of the wicked stepmother has made it a frequent theme of revisionist fairy tale fantasy. More subtly, Piers Anthony depicted the Princess Threnody as being cursed by her stepmother in Crewel Lye, A Caustic Yarn, if she ever entered Castle Roogna, it would fall down
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Prince Charming
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Prince Charming is a fairy tale character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress, and stereotypically, must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. The prominence of the character makes him an obvious target for revisionist fairy tales. Prince Charming is also used as a term to refer to the man some people dream of as a future spouse. Charles Perraults version of Sleeping Beauty, published in 1697, includes the text at the point where the princess wakes up, Est-ce vous. Lui dit-elle, vous vous êtes bien fait attendre, Le Prince charmé de ces paroles. Ne savait comment lui témoigner sa joie and it has sometimes been suggested that this passage later inspired the term, Prince Charming, even though it is the prince who is charmed here, not who is being charming. In the 17th century, Madame dAulnoy wrote two fairy tales, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, where the hero was named Avenant, and The Blue Bird, where the hero was Le roi Charmant. When Andrew Lang retold the first for The Blue Fairy Book, he rendered the name as Charming. Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, then, Oscar Wildes 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray refers ironically to Prince Charming, perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actresss Prince Charming, but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide. In the early Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when Snow White tells the dwarfs about her prince, she says, Anyone could see that the prince was charming, however, he is never referred to specifically as Prince Charming. In other languages, like Spanish and Italian, he is called the Blue Prince, in Portuguese, a translation mistake occurred and he is called Charmed Prince, coincidentally closer to the sense in Perraults story mentioned atop this section. The Broadway musical Into the Woods explores the character as polygamous, and where there are not one, here, they are shown as brothers pursuing Cinderella and Rapunzel, then later, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, after they have married their first loves. Cinderellas Prince has an affair with the wife as well. As implied by the title, the 1991 fantasy novel Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming by Roger Zelazny, Prince Charming is a prominent character in the Fables comic book. Polygamy is explored again, in version, he successively married Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. He himself comments, I always truly love a woman when I first pursue her. Im just no good at the happily-ever-after part. He parlays his charm into election as the mayor of Fabletown, the underground Fable community and he Died in the Battle for the Homelands by activating a Bomb to End the War
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Cinderella (1899 film)
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Cinderella is an 1899 French film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. It was released by Mélièss Star Film Company and is numbered 219–224 in its catalogues, the casts of Mélièss films are in many cases unidentified. Most of the listing is based on cast identifications made by the film scholars Georges Sadoul, Jacques Malthête. Barral had also acted in Mélièss bedroom farce The Bridegrooms Dilemma earlier that year, bleuette Bernon as the Fairy Godmother. Méliès discovered Bernon in the 1890s, when she was performing as a singer at the cabaret LEnfer and her appearance in Cinderella is contemporaneous with her performances at the Eldorado cabaret. She also appeared as Phoebe, the woman on the crescent moon, carmelli was an actor at Mélièss theater of stage illusions, the Théâtre de Robert-Houdin in Paris. Jehanne dAlcy as the Princes mother, the Queen, dAlcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage to devote herself to film, becoming one of the first performers to do so. She appeared in many of Mélièss films and later became his second wife, Georges Méliès as the genie of the midnight clock, and as a halberdier. All told, Méliès took a role in at least 300 of his 520 films. Méliès modeled the films visual style on the engravings of Gustave Doré, Cinderella was Mélièss first film with multiple scenes, using six distinct sets and five changes of scene within the film. So many extras were used in Cinderella that Méliès designated a Chief Extra to lead them, Cinderella was Mélièss first major cinematic success. It did well both in French fairground cinemas and at European and American music-halls, and inspired Méliès to create other lavishly designed storytelling films with multiple scenes. His next film with scenes, Joan of Arc, was his first to surpass 200 meters of film in length. According to the film historian Lewis Jacobs, Cinderellas use of spectacle on screen also influenced the films of Cecil B, Méliès made another adaptation of the story, Cinderella or the Glass Slipper, in 1912 under the supervision of Pathé Frères. Cinderella at the Internet Movie Database Cinderella is available for download at the Internet Archive
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Cinderella (1914 film)
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Cinderella is a 1914 silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by James Kirkwood, Sr. produced by Daniel Frohman, and released by Famous Players Film Company. The film is based upon the fairy tale Cinderella, the film was released on Blu-ray & DVD as a bonus feature from the DVD of Through the Back Door. Cinderella is a young woman who lives with her wicked stepmother. They abuse her and use her as the house maid, Cinderella thinks shes all alone in the world, but doesnt know a fairy godmother is constantly helping her. One day, she is collecting wood from the forest and meets Prince Charming and they immediately fall in love with each other, but lose contact. Soon, a ball is arranged by the prince to look for his future wife, the stepsisters think they make a great chance in being chosen by the prince. Cinderella wants to go as well, but isnt allowed to by her cruel family, the sisters go to a fortune teller, who announces a member of the family will be chosen by the prince. The sisters are delighted and think it will be one of the two of them, when they leave for the ball, Cinderella is left behind. The fairy godmother appears and asks if she wants to go to the ball as well, when Cinderella responds positively, the fairy godmother orders her to bring her the biggest pumpkin she can find. Cinderella does so and the fairy godmother changes it into a stage coach. She next asks for the smallest mice she can find, Cinderella brings her some mice from the house and the fairy godmother changes them into horses. The fairy godmother orders her to bring her the biggest rats there are. After Cinderella collected them, the fairy godmother changes them into servants and she finally changes Cinderellas poor maiden costume into a dress fit for a princess, and glass slippers, of course. She reminds Cinderella she will have to be back at home before the clock strikes midnight, otherwise, her fine dress will turn into rags and the coach and servants will become what they were before. As Cinderella arrives at the party, Prince Charming is already looking for his future wife. It is soon announced an unknown lady has arrived in a coach, Prince Charming immediately chooses her and they go to a private place where they learn to know each other. As they flirt, Cinderella notices it is almost twelve oclock and she loses her glass slipper, before she turns into her old poor self again. The next day, the heralds announce the Princes wish to marry the woman whose foot fits the lost glass slipper
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A Kiss for Cinderella (film)
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A Kiss for Cinderella is a silent fantasy taken from the stage play by James M. Barrie. The film stars Betty Bronson and Tom Moore and was made at Paramounts Astoria Studios in Astoria, the film is based on the 1916 play which starred stage actress Maude Adams in the Bronson role. Herbert Brenon directed as he had directed the 1924 film version of Barries Peter Pan which also starred Bronson, Tom Moore had previously costarred in The Cinderella Man for Goldwyn in 1917 alongside Mae Marsh. Surviving print of film is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, George Eastman House and UCLA Film. Betty Bronson - Cinderella Esther Ralston - Fairy Godmother Dorothy Cumming - Queen Tom Moore - Policeman Flora Finch - Customer Ivan Simpson - Mr. Cutaway Edna Hagen - Gretchen Dorothy Walters - Mrs
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First Love (1939 film)
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First Love is a 1939 American musical film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. Based on the fairy tale Cinderella, the film is about an orphan who is sent to live with her wealthy aunt and her life is made difficult by her snobby cousin who arranges that she stay home while the rest of the family attends a major social ball. With the help of her uncle, she makes it to the ball, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Music. Constance Harding is an orphan who will soon graduate from Miss Wiggins school for girls. Her only real relatives are members from the James Clinton family and she is brought to New York by one of their butlers, where she moves in with a bunch of snobs. The upperclass people are not impressed with her, but Connie is able to befriend the servants, one afternoon, her cousin Barbara Clinton orders Connie to stop Ted Drake from going riding without her. Connie tries the best she can, which results in embarrassing herself and she has secretly fallen in love with him and is full with joy when she learns the Drake family is organizing a ball. The servants raise money to buy her a fashionable dress, however, Barbara spreads a lie and Connie is eventually prohibited from attending the ball. Connie is heartbroken, until the servants arrange a limousine she can use until midnight, at the ball, everyone is impressed with her singing talents. Ted notices her and tries to charm her and they eventually kiss, when Connie realizes it is midnight. She runs off, but accidentally leaves one of her slippers behind, Ted finds the slipper and tries to locate the owner. Meanwhile, Barbara has found out Connie was at the ball, infuriated, she tries to break Connies confidence and fires all the servants. The next day, Connie is missing as well and she returns to Miss Wiggins school in the hope of becoming a music teacher. Ted follows her and they reunite in the end, the story is slight, fragile and appropriately dewy, as befits the Dresden-in-modern-dress spectacle of Miss Durbin standing with exceedingly unreluctant feet where the brook and river meet. That much advertised First Kiss is consummated with such restraint that not even the queasiest stockholder could fear that Miss Durbin will burn herself out emotionally before she is 20. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists,2002, AFIs 100 Years.100 Passions – Nominated First Love at the Internet Movie Database First Love at the Toronto Film Society
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The Glass Slipper
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The Glass Slipper is a musical film adaptation of Cinderella, made by MGM, directed by Charles Walters and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch. The music score is by Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Arthur E. Arling, the film received its network television premiere divided into two episodes on the 1967 ABC-TV anthology series Off To See The Wizard. Ella, who is teased as Cinderella, is a lonely. Prince Charles is the son of the Duke who rules the principality, now that Charles is back, he starts to recall old memories he had of growing up there, including a small girl with unbearably sad eyes whom he saw crying when he was just a boy. After getting into a spat with her stepfamily over the Princes appearance, Ella runs away to her favorite place, there she meets an eccentric old woman named Mrs. Toquet who becomes her first friend. The next day she returns to the spot, hoping to meet Mrs. Toquet, Ella asks them where they are from and they tell her that they come from the Palace, with Kovin saying that Charles is the son of the Chief Cook in the Palace. Charles then recognises Ellas eyes as those belonging to the girl he saw years ago, Ella thinks that he is making fun of her and pushes him into the pool. Charles is intrigued by Ella and has Kovin talk to the people of the principality to find out everything he can about her and that same day, Cousin Loulou visits the Sonder home. Ella is supposed to be all cleaned up to receive their guest, Ella remembers that she left her shoes at the pond, so she runs off to collect them, only to find Charles waiting for her with the shoes. Ella apologizes for pushing him into the water and he apologizes for hurting her feelings and they talk, and Charles gives her an invitation to the Ball, to which Ella replies that she cannot dance. Charles says that she should learn to dance since shes going to live in the Palace some day, after a waltz Charles steals a kiss, and Ella runs away. After the Widow Sonder, Birdina and Serafina leave for the ball, Mrs. Toquet arrives, bringing with her a ball gown and she has also somehow arranged for a coach to take Ella to the palace. Mrs. Toquet tells Ella she has to leave the Palace by midnight. At the Palace Ball, Ella is besieged by young men wanting to dance with her, when Charles learns of her presence, he waltzes with her and persuades her to look up at him. Ella is stunned to find that her friend is the Prince, the other guests, not knowing who the newcomer is, note her exotic colouring and surmise that she is a foreign lady of noble birth, perhaps Egyptian because of her short hair. When the clock strikes midnight, Ella runs away, leaving one of her glass slippers behind, while fleeing the palace, Ellas coach overturns, in the confused aftermath, the dazed Ella sees not a wrecked coach, but a pumpkin crawling with several mice. She loses consciousness and wakes the morning in her stepmothers house. Prince Charles informs his father that he has met the woman he wants to marry, Kovin, picking up on what hes overheard at the party, hurriedly explains that Ella is a princess of Egypt
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Cinderfella
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Cinderfella is a comedy film adaptation of the classic Cinderella story, with most characters changed in gender from female to male and starring Jerry Lewis as Fella. It was released December 16,1960 by Paramount Pictures, when Fellas father dies, he continues to live with his wicked stepmother, Emily, and her two sons, Maximilian and Rupert. His stepfamily takes over the mansion, while Fella is reduced to living in an unfinished room at the end of a long hallway. He has in essence become their butler, catering to their every whim, Fella dreams nightly that his father is trying to relay a message to him about where he has hidden his fortune, but he always awakens before he learns the hiding place. His stepfamily knows of this fortune and some go to great lengths to discover its whereabouts. Princess Charming of the Grand Duchy of Morovia is in town, Fella is not allowed to go to the ball, but his fairy godfather says he will not remain a people much longer, but will blossom into a person. Before the ball, Fella is turned into a handsome prince, count Basies orchestra is playing at the ball when Fella makes his grand entrance. The young man quickly gains the attention of the Princess and they dance, the night is cut short when midnight strikes and Fella flees, losing his shoe along the way. Back home, one of Fellas stepbrothers realizes that Fella is the supposed prince and they wind up in a struggle under a tree, in the process discovering that this is where Fellas fathers fortune is hidden. Fella gives the money to his stepfamily, saying he never needed money to be happy, shamed, his stepmother orders her sons to return the money to Fella. The Princess arrives with Fellas lost shoe, but Fella explains that they could never be together because she is a person and she tells him that, underneath the fancy clothes, she is a people too. Cinderfella was filmed from October 19 through December 15,1959, while rehearsing for the scene in which he makes his entrance to the ball, Lewis realized that the movement of his pants was distracting. On the day of filming, he asked the staff to attach elastic bands to the hems of his pant legs that would go under his shoes. In the DVD commentary to the film, Lewis called this an old dancers trick, the scene was shot with one take of Jerry Lewis going down the stairs and one take going up. He ran up the stairs in less than nine seconds and collapsed at the top and he was taken to the hospital and spent four days in an oxygen tent with his second cardiac event. This delayed filming for two weeks, Paramount wanted to release the film during the summer, but Lewis considered it a holiday film and wanted to hold it back for a Christmas release. The only way the studio would delay its release was for Lewis to provide them with another movie they could release in its place in the summer. Lewis agreed and wrote, produced, and directed The Bellboy in four weeks in February 1960 while he was performing at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and that movie was released on July 20,1960
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Stop! Look! and Laugh
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Look. and Laugh. is a 1960 feature-length Three Stooges compilation featuring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard. Eleven of the Stooges shorts were shown and bridged together with segments featuring Paul Winchell and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Near the end of the film, the Marquis Chimps perform a version of Cinderella narrated in rhyme by Winchell with June Foray providing female voices as part of Knuckleheads bedtime story, new York Stooges TV host Officer Joe Bolton has a cameo as a customer in a cafe. Paul Winchell plays a father to Jerry Mahoney who is avoiding going to school at all costs where he is failing his subjects, Winchell relates stories that segue into scenes from Three Stooges short subjects with the film concluding with a loud party that is footage from Half-Wits Holiday. As Winchell enters the home to complain of the noise, he is hit one of the pies in that sequences pie fight. Columbia Pictures, which would distribute the film, apologized and admitted that it had made an error by putting together a compilation of Three Stooges shorts without the teams consent. Both parties agreed to have the film released on July 4,1960, the following eleven Stooge shorts were featured in Stop. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise How High Is Up, violent is the Word for Curly Sock-a-Bye Baby Higher Than a Kite Whats the Matador. Calling All Curs Goofs and Saddles Micro-Phonies A Plumbing We Will Go Half-Wits Holiday List of American films of 1960 Stop, look. and Laugh. at the Internet Movie Database Stop. Look. and Laugh. at the TCM Movie Database Stop, look. and Laugh. at AllMovie Stop
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More Than a Miracle
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More Than a Miracle is a 1967 film also titled Cinderella Italian Style and Happily Ever After. It stars Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif and Dolores del Río, the movie has a fairy tale narrative. Filmed in the countryside outside of Naples, Francesco Rosi directed, the theme music was a hit for Roger Williams, reaching #2 on Billboards survey. Sergio Franchi recorded the song on his 1968 RCA Victor album. The film recounts the misadventures of a beautiful and temperamental Neapolitan village girl Isabella, the prince was a risk taker, avoiding his parents wishes for him to marry. One day while riding a horse in the countryside, he becomes distracted by a noise and this person predicts his future and gives him a donkey to take him in the right direction if he pats its back and feeds him flour. On the way back, he meets Isabella and he is very much attracted to her, but she rejects him. The King of Spain orders Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses within seven days and she joins the cooking team for the seven-day function, while the Prince searches for her in the countryside. With the help of witches and saints, Isabella finally conquers the heart of her Prince and marries him
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The Slipper and the Rose
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The Slipper and the Rose is a 1976 British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. This film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976, Prince Edward of Euphrania returns home after being sent to meet the princess Selena, whom his parents have arranged for him to marry. However, The Prince reveals he did not propose to the princess he was visiting, Edward decides to tell his parents that he wants to marry for love. They, however, are interested in the political side. They fail to sway the prince, however, Cinderella finds some comfort in remembering happier times. Whilst putting flowers by her parents grave, she stumbles upon the prince, and his friend and bodyguard John. The Prince sardonically talks about his ancestors, with whom he will one day be buried. Back at the castle, the King of Euphrania is advised that a marriage between Edward and a Princess from one of Euphranias neighboring countries would help prevent war, a ball is seen as the perfect way to help Edward choose his bride. The Prince hates the idea, though his cousin Montague is delighted, when news arrives that the home country of the princess Edward refused to marry intends to make war on Euphrania, Edward has no choice but to accept. However, fewer than half the princesses accept the invitation, so the local nobility, including Cinderellas stepmother, the stepmother and stepsisters demand that Cinderella sew all three of them elegant gowns for the ball from the fabric of their old dresses. Cinderella has no idea what to do, as luck would have it a fairy godmother, who has a talent for sensing the wishes of those who are pure in heart, arrives and creates three beautiful gowns while Cinderella rests. That night, the stepmother and stepsisters depart for the ball leaving Cinderella alone, Cinderellas fairy godmother returns and informs Cinderella that she too can go to the ball. She transforms Cinderellas shabby dress into a gown, arranges her hair in the period fashion. Cinderella is sent off to the ball with a warning that the magic can only last until midnight and it is love at first sight when Cinderella and Edward meet at the ball. As the clock strikes midnight, Cinderella races away, leaving only behind her glass slipper, Edward sends his servants out far and wide in search of the woman who fits the glass slipper. Edward builds a monument for the slipper and hopes one day his lost love will turn up. John is also suffering as a result of love, he is in love with a noblewoman and he Knights John, so John can pursue his romance with Lady Caroline. Cinderella and Edward are reunited and greeted by her stepmother and stepsisters, Edward asks the permission of the stepmother to marry Cinderella and she gives full permission, if only to get Cinderella off her hands
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Maid to Order
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Maid to Order is a 1987 American comedy/fantasy film starring Ally Sheedy, Beverly DAngelo, Michael Ontkean, Valerie Perrine, Dick Shawn, Tom Skerritt, and Merry Clayton. This film is a variation on the Cinderella formula, the fairy godmother is not the means to a better life for the heroine. Stella is Jessies primary obstacle to achieving her wish of regaining her old spoiled Beverly Hills lifestyle, when Jessie is arrested for drunk driving and drug possession, she finally pushes Charles beyond his limits. While in the company of family retainer Woodrow, he says the one thing he thought hed never say. he wishes hed never had a daughter, in pops Stella Winston, a fairy godmother who has been assigned to the Montgomery family. To keep Jessie from ruining her life, Stella casts a spell erasing Jessies life as it is, then she bails Jessie out of jail. When Jessie tries to go home, her father doesnt recognize her, Stella appears and tells her that shes getting what she deserves. She tells Jessie that if she wants to eat and have a place to sleep, shell have to find employment. Jessie, who has never worked a day in her life, is forced to work as a live-in maid for an eccentric couple named Starkey who got rich by winning the lottery some years back. Jessie has to interact with the mansion staff, consisting of former singer-turned-cook Audrey, Hispanic servant Maria, and chauffeur Nick. Jessie learns the meaning of love, friendship, hard work. When she chooses the happiness of her new friends over her own, she is rewarded with having her old life returned to her, albeit vastly improved. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times found it too easy to anticipate most of the big moments, janet Maslin in The New York Times praised Sheedy, saying her petulant manner and her air of faint distaste for her surroundings are just right for this role. And she shows herself to be an able physical comedienne, Jessies fathers mansion is located at 365 S Hudson Street, Los Angeles, California. In 2002, Artisan Entertainment released the film on DVD without bonus features and was presented only in full screen, the DVD has now been discontinued for no given reason. As of December 21,2009, Lions Gate have yet to announce any plans for a new DVD, in September 2010 the movie became available to view on Netflixs Watch Instantly, but has since been removed. Spirit In The Sky Performed by Dr
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Ever After
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Ever After is a 1998 American romantic drama film inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella. It is directed by Andy Tennant and stars Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, the screenplay is written by Tennant, Susannah Grant, and Rick Parks. The original music score is composed by George Fenton, the films closing theme song Put Your Arms Around Me is performed by the rock band Texas. The usual pantomime and comic/supernatural elements are removed and the story is treated as historical fiction. It is often seen as a modern, post-feminism interpretation of the Cinderella story, in the 19th century, a Grande Dame summons The Brothers Grimm to her palace, where the brothers discuss their interpretation of the Cinderella story and notice a painting displayed in the room. The Grande Dame shows the brothers a glass slipper and tells them the story of Danielle de Barbarac, in 16th-century France, Auguste de Barbarac is a widower and the father of eight-year-old Danielle. Auguste marries Rodmilla de Ghent, a wealthy baroness with two daughters, Marguerite and Jacqueline, later that evening, Auguste gives Danielle a copy of Thomas Mores Utopia. Before dying of an attack just as Auguste leaves for business, his last words are directed to Danielle. By the time Danielle is eighteen, the estate has fallen into decline, the Baroness is not interested in farming and wishes to get back to the Royal Court. Meanwhile, Danielle serves her stepmother, Marguerite, and Jacqueline in her home, Danielle sees a man stealing her fathers horse and unseats him with an apple until she recognizes he is Prince Henry. Henry buys her silence with gold because King Francis and Queen Marie tell Henry that he must choose a bride before the ball or wed the Spanish princess. However, Henrys escape is foiled when he encounters gypsies robbing Leonardo da Vinci, Henry chases the thief and returns the Mona Lisa to da Vinci. Meanwhile, Danielle dresses as a noblewoman and leaves to buy back Maurice, Henry overhears Danielle argue with the Cargomaster and orders Maurices release. Henry begs for Danielle’s name but she lies and gives Henry the name of her mother, Danielle and Henry are ambushed by gypsies after stumbling upon each other by a river. Danielle resolves the issue and they share their first kiss, the next morning, Danielle catches Rodmilla and Marguerite stealing her mothers dress and slippers for Marguerite to wear to the ball. Marguerite insults Danielle about her mothers death, punches Marguerite in the face, Danielle returns her mothers slippers to Rodmilla in exchange for the book, but Marguerite burns it in the fire anyway. After Danielle is whipped, Jacqueline tends to her wounds and condemns Marguerite for insulting Danielles mother, during a lunch with Queen Marie, Rodmilla discovers that Danielle is the Countess that Henry has been spending time with and tells the Queen that Danielle is engaged. Rodmilla confronts Danielle and locks her in the pantry until Danielles friend, Gustave, Leonardo da Vinci helps free Danielle and makes her a pair of wings with her mothers dress and slippers for the ball
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Ella Enchanted (film)
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Ella Enchanted is a 2004 fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Tommy OHaver and written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith loosely based on Gail Carson Levines 1997 novel of the same name. Starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy, the plays with the usual fairy tale genre. The film is a co-production between companies in the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, within the kingdom of Emir, in the town of Frell, a baby girl named Ella is born to Sir Peter and his wife Lady Eleanor. She is given the gift of obedience by a misguided and obnoxious fairy called Lucinda and this turns out to be more of a curse, as it forces Ella to do anything she is told to do, even if the command is against her wishes. Ellas mother, on her deathbed, warns her not to tell anyone about the curse she is under for fear that someone might use it to exploit Ella. After her mothers death, only Mandy, the household fairy, several years later, Ellas father remarries to a wealthy socialite, Dame Olga, who dislikes Ella. Her spoiled daughters Hattie and Olive notice Ellas obedience and start to humiliate her, Ella stumbles upon Prince Charmont, the handsome heir who will soon take the throne, as hes being pursued by his fan club of besotted young women. He invites Ella to the Coronation Ball, but Olga intercepts the invitation, Hattie and Olive, fan club members themselves, are overcome with jealousy. They force Ella to insult and cut ties with her best friend Areida, Ella cannot bear her situation a moment longer, and resolves to find Lucinda, as she is the only one who can reverse the spell. Mandy helps by lending Ella her boyfriend Benny, whom she transformed into a talking magical book that can show people in their current surroundings. During her journey, Ella encounters an elf named Slannen, who wants to be a lawyer instead of an entertainer as the laws now require and they are both captured by a group of ogres, who want to eat them. Prince Charmont rescues them and accompanies them to a wedding in the land of giants, en route, Ella opens Chars eyes to the cruelty of the laws oppressing elves and giants established by the acting ruler, Chars uncle Sir Edgar. Char invites Ella to visit the palaces Hall of Records and find Lucinda faster, but Edgars talking snake, Heston, is spying on them. At the palace, Heston tells Edgar about Ellas obedience, which Hattie confirms when Edgar offers her Chars hand in marriage, knowing that Char intends to marry Ella, Edgar orders her to kill him when he proposes, and keep the plan a secret. Edgar also reveals that he murdered Chars father, to save Char, Ella writes him a letter, saying she is leaving permanently and cannot explain why, which breaks his heart. She then asks Slannen to tie her to a tree and get the giants to help, Lucinda then appears before Ella, who asks her to undo the gift of obedience. Lucinda is offended that Ella doesnt like her gift and simply tells Ella to remove it herself. She unties Ella, gives her a dress, and tells her to attend the ball
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Cinderella (2006 film)
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Cinderella is a 2006 South Korean horror film. It was directed by Bong Man-dae and starred Do Ji-won and Shin Se-kyung, a figure carries a birthday cake into a room but drops it in shock as another unknown person commits suicide by hanging herself. Su-kyoung is lying on an operating table ready to undergo plastic surgery and she is extremely nervous and is being comforted by her friend Hyeon-su, whose parents are divorced. Hyeon-su leaves and talks to her mother Yoon-hee, a successful, the two have a good mother-daughter relationship. Meanwhile, Su-kyoung is panicking alone in the operating room and she sees a frightening image of a girl in a dark blue dress and long dark hair. Yoon-hee begins the surgery, telling Su-kyoung that it is time to become pretty, a day later, on Hyeon-sus birthday, she argues with her mother about where to have the party and finally decides to do it in her home. Hyeon-su is later in her art class, making a sculpture of Su-kyoungs face, many girls in the class comment saying that Su-kyoung looks much more attractive than she did before. Hyeon-su accidentally cuts into the face of her sculpture and a large cut subsequently appears on Su-kyoungs cheek and she screams and flees in terror. A mysterious voice shrieks at her saying she wants her face back, Su-kyoungs cut and blood later vanish. Hye-won, another friend, decides to get an eye job from Yoon-hee, meanwhile, Hyeon-su, Jae-hui and Su-kyoung wait at a bus stop while an old woman gives out fliers for her missing granddaughter. Su-kyoung is distant, troubled by earlier events, the bus arrives but Hyeon-su waits for her friend Sung-eon to come. Jae-hui shows instant dislike for Sung-eon, who is tomboyish and closer to Hyeon-su than her other friends, the girls all celebrate Hyeon-sus party and Su-kyoung gives her an expensive doll for a present. When lighting the cake, the same ghost girl that Su-kyoung saw appears next to Hyeon-su, in a hasty panic, Su-kyoung gets in the way of the cake and then goes to the bathroom to wash her face. Su-kyoung admires her face for a second before she sees her face shredded in the reflection and she screams and runs from Hyeon-sus house. Later the two girls look through an album and laugh about what they used to look like. Hyeon-su then tells Sung-eon that she has no childhood pictures, Yoon-hee listens through the door and then walks away. Su-kyoung meanwhile has locked herself inside her room for days and refuses to see anyone and her mother calls Yoon-hee and Hyeon-su to come and help. Su-kyoung lets Hyeon-su in and she tells her there is something wrong with her face
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Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale
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Elle, A Modern Cinderella Tale is a 2010 American teen musical comedy-drama film directed by John and Sean Dunson and starring Ashlee Hewitt and Sterling Knight. The screenplay was written by Bo Ransdell, Ryan Dean and Thomas Martin and produced by Sean Dunson, John Dunson, Hewitt stars as Elle Daniels, an intern who dreams of becoming a singer. Hewitt announced to fans she was filming for the movie on June 20,2009, the film premiered on April 24,2010, at the Newport Beach Film Festival. It was released on DVD on April 26,2011, Elle Daniels has dreamed of being a famous singer-songwriter for as long as she can remember. On the day of her audition for Berklee, the plane her parents are travelling in crashes, crushed, Elle moves in with her uncle Allen, who runs a small, independent record company called Spunn Records. Allen offers Elle a job as an intern and even though this means supporting Spunns biggest act, Elle swallows her pride and tries to forget about her dreams. She becomes good friends with fellow intern Kit, and spends her days phoning radio stations, but then Ty Parker, a famous pop singer extraordinaire, shows up at Spunn, saying that he needs something different, even if it means his fans shunning him. Allen agrees to set him up on a duet with Kandi Kane, surprised and pleased, Elle plays along, leaving at midnight when she receives a text from uncle Allen. After discovering that she accidentally over recorded the Sensation single and feeling guilty for lying to Ty, Ty is determined to find the girl he met with the help of TJ but fails. Stephanie discovers that the song was Elles and Sensation team up with Kandi to show Elle her place. On Kits advice, Elle decides to give love a shot. Ty hears her sing, and Elle is viciously insulted by Sensation, instead of supporting them, Ty walks out and comforts the heartbroken Elle and they start dating. He also convinces her that her talent would never hurt her, Allen also tells Elle that he admired her parents very much and the song that she accidentally over-recorded was beautiful. He also said that Elle helped him remember that he wanted to make music then money, all seems to be well and Ty convinces Elle to audition for Berklee again. They write a song Fairytale together, until Kandi returns for her claim on the single, Ty calls her a horrible person, but agrees to break up with Elle anyway to protect her. Heartbroken, Elle misunderstands everything, which causes Kit and Andy to carry out an investigation where they hear the receptionist calling Kandi Miss Smirkle, although suspicious, Andys courage fails, but Kit kisses him for support and he mans up immediately. After getting immense proof on tape, Kit reveals Brendas secret to Allen, Ty rushes to make Elles audition and arrives just as she is standing tongue-tied on the stage. He backs her up with a guitar and she blows the judges away by singing Fairytale and she is immediately accepted to Berklee and forgives Ty after the performance
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Cinderella (2015 Disney film)
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Cinderella is a 2015 American romantic fantasy film directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a screenplay written by Chris Weitz. The film is based on the folk tale and inspired in part by Walt Disneys 1950 animated film. The film stars Lily James as the character with Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi. It is produced by David Barron, Simon Kinberg and Allison Shearmur for Walt Disney Pictures, Cinderella had its world premiere on February 13,2015, at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and was released in theaters on March 13,2015. It grossed over $543 million worldwide, becoming Branaghs highest-grossing film to date, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design at the 88th Academy Awards. Ella is born to loving parents on an estate in a peaceful kingdom. Since childhood, she is taught by her mother to believe in magic, encouraging her to befriend animals, One day, Ellas mother falls terminally ill. On her deathbed, she advises Ella to always face lifes difficulties with courage, some years later, Ellas father remarries again with Lady Tremaine, a widow, who has two daughters of her own, Drisella and Anastasia. When Ellas father goes abroad for business, Lady Tremaine slowly reveals her cruel, Ellas life takes a turn for the worst when her father dies, causing Lady Tremaine to dismiss the household to save money and forcing all the chores on Ella. They abuse her further, not letting her eat properly, crushed by their cruelty, Ella rides off into the woods, where she meets Kit, who is part of a hunting party. Not knowing Kit is actually the prince to the kingdom, Ella admonishes him for hunting a stag. Kit is enchanted by Ellas kindness and outlook on life, the King, upon learning he has little time left, insists Kit take a bride, who should be a princess for the advantage of the kingdom. Kit persuades his father to invite every eligible maiden in the land to the ball in hopes of seeing Ella. When the ball is announced, the Tremaines are ecstatic at the prospect of marrying into royalty, Ella is also excited to attend the ball for the chance to see Kit, and fixes up her mothers old pink dress. On the night of the ball, Ella tries to join her stepfamily, an old beggar woman reveals herself to be Ellas fairy godmother. To help Ella attend the ball, the fairy godmother magically conjures a carriage and she casts a spell to prevent Ellas stepfamily from recognizing her, but warns that the magic will break at midnight. At the ball, Ella wins the coveted first dance with Kit, Kit shows Ella his secret garden. When midnight approaches, Ella flees and accidentally drops one of her glass slippers, at home, Ella hides the one glass slipper she has as a keepsake, content that her one night will become a beautiful memory
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A Cinderella Story
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A Cinderella Story is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Rosman, written by Leigh Dunlap and stars Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge and Regina King. A modernization of the classic Cinderella folk lore, the plot revolves around two Internet pen pals who plan meet in person at their high schools Halloween dance. The film was released in July 16,2004, while it received negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, grossing $70 million against its $19 million budget. Sam Montgomery lives in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, with her widowed father Hal, Hal soon marries an exceedingly vain, and selfish woman named Fiona, who has socially-awkward fraternal twin daughters, Brianna and Gabriella. During the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Hal is killed when he runs to save Fiona, having supposedly left no will, Fiona receives all of his belongings, including the house, the diner, and to her dismay, Sam. Sam struggles to cope socially at North Valley High School, where queen bee, cheerleader Shelby Cummings, also torments her, Sam confides in her online pen pal Nomad about her dream to attend Princeton, a dream which he also shares. The reason why he is unhappy is because Austins father planned for him to go to the University of Southern California with a football scholarship, Nomad proposes that they meet in person at the schools Halloween themed homecoming dance. On the night of the dance, Fiona orders Sam to work the night shift at the diner, then leaves to drive Brianna, initially reluctant, Sam is convinced by her best friend, Carter Ferrell, to go to the dance and meet her mysterious online friend. Rhonda, Sams other best friend, and the rest of the staff also convince her to disobey Fiona. Sam, wearing a mask and a white dress, meets Nomad at the dance, and is surprised to learn that he is Austin. The two decide to leave the party to walk alone and get to each other a little better. While sharing a dance, Sam and Austin begin to fall in love. But just as Austin is about to unmask her, Sams cell phone goes off. She leaves without revealing her identity to Austin, and drops her phone on the way out, Austin picks up her phone and begins a desperate search to figure out who his Cinderella really is, but every girl at school claims to be the mysterious owner of the phone. Sam is reluctant to reveal her identity to Austin, feeling that he will not accept her due to her being ordinary and Austin being popular. When Austin comes into the one day, Sam is forced to help him and, after a talk, she attempts to reveal her identity to him. Sams stepsisters discover Sam and Austins email relationship, and convince Shelby that Sam tried to steal Austin from her, during a pep rally, they and the other cheerleaders humiliate Sam in front of the entire school and expose her identity as well as naming her an impostor. Austin, hurt by Sams secrecy, does not step up to defend her, like Austin, Sam had been accepted to Princeton, only to be duped by Fiona into believing she was rejected, by having a fake rejection letter made
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Another Cinderella Story
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The film was released on DVD on September 16,2008. This film is a retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale in a setting with Mary Santiago. Tami, Marys only friend serves as the fairy godmother, a school dance substitutes for the ball, with the role of the glass slipper filled by a Zune. However, she said that the characters are so wafer thin they barely cast a shadow. Walker also gave it three out of five stars, praising the script, saying the writers peppered this story with a dose of humor. However, Walker specifically criticized the glaringly obvious age difference between the 15-year-old Gomez and the 25-year-old Seeley, Another Cinderella Story at the Internet Movie Database Another Cinderella Story at AllMovie Another Cinderella Story at Rotten Tomatoes Another Cinderella Story at the TCM Movie Database
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