Cindy

Mar 24, 1978

1h 38m

★ 5.3

Overview

A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.

Genres

Music

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

John-Charles-Walters Productions

Paramount Television

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Cast

Cindy

Charlayne Woodard

Father

Scoey Mitchell

Sara Hayes

Mae Mercer

Olive

Nell Carter

Venus

Alaina Reed Hall

Michael Simpson

Cleavant Derricks

Captain Joe Prince

Clifton Davis

Miles Archer

W. Benson Terry

Wilcox

John Hancock

Recruiter

Richard Stahl

Sergeant

Noble Willingham

Swearing-In Officer

Burke Byrnes

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