Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders

75 mins | Comedy, Romance | June 6, 1926

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.

Ella Cinders

75 mins | Comedy, Romance | June 6, 1926

Ella Cinders
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers John McCormick Productions
Original title Ella Cinders
Directors Alfred E. Green
Writers Charles Plumb, William M. Conselman, Frank Griffin, Mervyn LeRoy

Cast

Colleen Moore

as Ella Cinders

Lloyd Hughes

as Waite Lifter

Vera Lewis

as Ma Cinders

Doris Baker

as Lotta Pill

Emily Gerdes

as Prissy Pill

Mike Donlin

as Film Studio Gateman

Jed Prouty

as Mayor

Jack Duffy

as Fire Chief

Harry Allen

as Photographer

Alfred E. Green

as Director

D'Arcy Corrigan

as Editor

Billy Butts

as Neighbor Kid (uncredited)

John D. Bloss

as Child entering movie studio (uncredited)

E.H. Calvert

as Studio Actor (uncredited)

Wendell Phillips Franklin

as Union Ice Wagon Driver (uncredited)

Russell Hopton

as Studio Actor (uncredited)

Audrey Howell

as Child entering movie studio (uncredited)

Harry Langdon

as Himself (uncredited)

Malcolm Sebastian

as Neighbor Kid (uncredited)

Buddy Smith

as Neighbor Kid (uncredited)

Chief Yowlachie

as Indian with Cigar (uncredited)