Cinderella doesn't appear to meet her stepmother, Lady Tremaine, before her father marries her in the Disney movie. This is also the case in the live-action remake, but her father does ask his ...

“Being chosen as Cinderella is truly a fairy tale,” said the Shady Side Academy graduate, who was presented by her father R. John Badeer. “ I felt like a princess. This is a special night ...

Some earlier versions of "Cinderella" include a silent short film from 1911 in which Cinderella's father is actually alive and a 1922 German version originally called "Aschenputtel," which ...

As Stephen Sondheim’s Cinderella put it in the song “I Wish” from the musical “Into The Woods,” “Mother said be good, / Father said be nice, / That was always their advice.

Father slain; princesses forgotten. Dog and cat eaten; elder sisters die. Heroine eats mouse; digs way out." As Disney releases another Cinderella adaptation — this one live-action, directed by ...

If there’s a nagging oversight in Weitz’s screenplay it’s the failure to justify how a man as sensitive as Ella’s father would ... when midnight strikes and Cinderella’s coach and ...

Score: 1/3 The heroine: Freshly orphaned as of the start of the movie, Cinderella (Gemma Craven) is banished to the basement of her father’s house and forced to do the stepmother’s menial chores.

As usual, the Stepmother and Stepsisters provide the comic relief, and Cinderella’s father is part of this story, too, providing the glue and the low notes among the principals, Kleinknecht said.