Ella Cinders

Jun 6, 1926

1h 15m

★ 7.0

A COMEDY ON THE MOVIES WITH THE IRREPRESSIBLE COLEEN MOORE!

Overview

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

John McCormick Productions

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Cast

Ella Cinders

Colleen Moore

Waite Lifter

Lloyd Hughes

Ma Cinders

Vera Lewis

Lotta Pill

Doris Baker

Prissy Pill

Emily Gerdes

Film Studio Gateman

Mike Donlin

Mayor

Jed Prouty

Fire Chief

Jack Duffy

Photographer

Harry Allen

Director

Alfred E. Green

Editor

D'Arcy Corrigan

Neighbor Kid (uncredited)

Billy Butts

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