Princess Cinderella

1941 Italian film

1941 (1941)

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Princess Cinderella (Italian: Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura) is a 1941 Italian fantasy-comedy film written and directed by Sergio Tofano. It is based on the characters of the popular comic strip series Signor Bonaventura, created in 1917 by the same Tofano for the children magazine Corriere dei Piccoli.^[1]^[2]

Plot

After her marriage to Prince Charming, Cinderella spends her days in their luxurious palace, keeping his affability with all the people around her, but her two stepsisters, always envious of her, manage to get her away from the palace. The Prince falls into a state of despair, but Bonaventura promises him to go in search of the girl and bring her back. After fighting bitter enemies such as Barbariccia and the Ogre, helped by the loyal Cecè and by the Little Fairy he will finally succeed.

Cast

Paolo Stoppa as Bonaventura
Silvana Jachino as Cinderella
Roberto Villa as Prince Charming
Sergio Tofano as the Doctor
Guglielmo Barnabò as the King
Rosetta Tofano as Pasqualina
Mercedes Brignone as the Queen
Piero Carnabuci as Barbariccia
Mario Pisu as Cecè
Camillo Pilotto as the Ogre
Renato Chiantoni as Gambamoscia
Amelia Chellini as the Witch
Nais Lago as the Good Fairy

References

^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

External links

Princess Cinderella at IMDb
Princess Cinderella at Variety Distribution

"Cinderella" by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm

Universe

Characters	Buttons Cinderella Ugly sisters Fairy godmother Wicked stepmother Prince Charming
National variation	Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian) Beauty and Pock Face (Chinese) Chūjō-hime (Japanese) Fair, Brown and Trembling (Irish) Finette Cendron (French) The Green Knight (Danish) Katie Woodencloak (Norwegian) Kongjwi and Patjwi (Korean) Maria (Philippines) Ochikubo Monogatari (Japanese) "Rhodopis" (Greek) Rushen Coatie (Scottish) The Sharp Grey Sheep (Scottish) The Story of Tấm and Cám (Vietnamese) Sumiyoshi Monogatari (Japanese) The True Bride (German) The Wonderful Birch (Russian) Ye Xian (Chinese)
Related	Jacinda Vidrio Catskin Into the Woods Into the Woods (2014 film) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Disney's characters Stop! Look! and Laugh! Waltz Suite Black Cinderella Two Goes East Cinderella's Stepsister Cinderella (sports) Lying to Be Perfect Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha (2009) Cinderella's Eyes (2011) Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Male versions	Askeladden or Boots (Norwegian) Fire Boy (Japanese)

Media

Films

Cinderella (1899)
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912)
Cinderella (1914)
A Lowland Cinderella (1921)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
Ella Cinders (1926)
The Magic Shoes (1935)
First Love (1939)
Princess Cinderella (1941)
Cinderella (1947)
The Glass Slipper (1955)
Cinderella (1955)
Cinderfella (1960)
Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)
More Than a Miracle (1967)
Tři oříšky pro Popelku (1973)
The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
Cinderella (1979)
Cinderella '80 (1984)
Maid to Order (1987)
Lua de Cristal (1990)
If the Shoe Fits (1990)
Ever After (1998)
Ella Enchanted (2004)
Cinderella (2006)
Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)
Rags (2012)
Cinderella (2021)
Sneakerella (2022)

A Cinderella Story series	A Cinderella Story (2004) Another Cinderella Story (2008) Once Upon a Song (2011) If the Shoe Fits (2016) Christmas Wish (2019) Starstruck (2021)
Disney's Cinderella	Cinderella (1950) Dreams Come True (2002) A Twist in Time (2007) Cinderella (2015)
Animation	Cinderella Blues (1931) Poor Cinderella (1934) Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) Ancient Fistory (1953) Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964) Cinderella (1979) The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981) The Magic Riddle (1991) Happily N'Ever After (2007) Year of the Fish (2008) Cinderella the Cat (2017) Charming (2018) Cinderella and the Secret Prince (2018)

Television

Hey, Cinderella! (1968)
Cindy (1978)
Cinderella Monogatari (1996)
Cinderella (1997)
CinderElmo (1999)
Cinderella (2000)
I Was a Rat/Cinderella and Me (2001)
La Cenicienta (2003)
Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (2004)
Floricienta (2004)
Floribella (2005 Brazil)
Floribella (2006 Portugal)
Grazilda (2010)
Rags (2012)
Aik Nayee Cinderella (2012)

Literary
adaptations

Celestina (1791)
Ella Cinders (1925–1961)
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954)
Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
The Coachman Rat (1989)
Witches Abroad (1991)
Ella Enchanted (1997)
I Was a Rat!: or, The Scarlet Slippers (1999)
Just Ella (1999)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
Chinese Cinderella (1999)
The Fairy Godmother (2004)
Phoenix and Ashes (2004)
Bella at Midnight (2006)
Ash (2009)
Princess of Glass (2010)
Cinder (2012)

Opera

Cendrillon (1810 Isouard)
La Cenerentola (1817 Rossini)
Cendrillon (1899 Massenet)
Cendrillon (1904 Viardot)
La Cenicienta (1966 Hen)
Cinderella (2016 Deutscher)

Ballet

Cinderella (1893 Fitinhof-Schell)
Aschenbrödel (1900 Strauss-Bayer)
Cinderella (1945 Prokofiev)
Cinderella (1948 Ashton)

Musicals

Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire (1904)
A Stubborn Cinderella (1909)
Mr. Cinders (1929)
Cinderella (1957)
Cindy (1964)
The Penny Friend (1966)
The Slipper and the Rose (1984)
Into the Woods (1987)
Soho Cinders (2008)
Cinderella (2013)
Cinderella (2020)

Other

Plays
- A Kiss for Cinderella (1916)
Comics
- Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love
- Cinderalla
- Ella Cinders (1925–1961)
Games
- Cinders
Pantomime
- Sinderella