#rodgers and hammerstein's cinderella (1957)

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Julie Andrews as the titular main character in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957)

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PRELIMINARY ROUND! MATCH 2 OUT OF 5 - BATTLE OF THE RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA ADAPTATIONS!

Propaganda Under the Cut

Julie Andrews as Cinderella (1957 Movie):

((This movie is the Julie Andrew’s one.))

Lesley Ann Warrens as Cinderella (1965 Movie):

tbh I think that both other films for this version are superior to this one, but I want the full 128 bracket so I might as well submit this. Starring Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella, it's a distinct remake of the Julie Andrews version (which was incredibly popular, but hadn't been filmed in color, thus the studio's decision to make a new one). It is admittedly more similar to the 1957 version than the 1997 version was, so if you don't want to accept it as its own story that's fine; but there *are* some differences in the script, songs, and acting choices for the characters. I haven't seen this version of the film since I was VERY young, so I can't speak on the quality or anything lol, but I remember that I really really liked it when I was five, before the 1997 version came out and consumed me lol. I had briefly considered submitting it earlier because it felt unfair to have Julie Andrews and Brandy Norwood both have a slot while poor Lesley Ann Warren was left out, but ultimately decided she probably wouldn't get very far. But now I'm reconsidering lol sooooo yeah. A third version of Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella for your consideration XD

Brandy as Cinderella (1997 Movie):

Because she is so cute in this, I love her outfits before and after the transformation, and this movie is just such a good adaptation of Cinderella.

the 1997 cinderella movie is the best one ever to me like. you have whitney houston as the fairy godmother and brandy is so so so pretty and she's such an amazing cinderella. 10 minutes ago the best cinderella song of all time ever she sounded so good <3

does this movie even NEED propaganda?

Brandy Cinderella with Whitney Houston! Need I say more?

Brandy plays one of the best iterations of Cinderella actually.

I just think she's neat. Also she looked the best in the ball gown.

One of the most iconic Cinderellas of all time, Brandy brought tenderness, earnestness, and heartfelt poignancy that transformed the story and emphasized its humanity and themes of dreaming for the future. Her voice is celestial! The power of her performance is undeniable! As a lifelong Cinderella fan she was always one of my favorites.

A lot of children grew up watching this movie around the holidays.

This is my favorite version of Cinderella and Brandy absolutely KILLS IT as Cinderella!! Her voice is so sweet and beautiful. And her dress!! I love her peplum. ALSO HER BRAIDS MAKE A BUN AND ITS SO ADORABLE. just look up the soundtrack for this movie PLEASE.

Various Actresses as Cinderella in the 2015 Musical:

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Rodgers and Hammerstein watch Julie Andrews rehearsing in costume on set of the CBS Television program 'Cinderella,' New York, 1957.

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Julie Andrews, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, 1957.

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Some people say that Cinderella has been adapted too many times, but personally, I'm glad that so many different versions exist.

I've just been reading some of Tumblr's debates (mainly centered around Disney's 2015 film) about whether it's right or wrong for Cinderella to forgive her stepfamily in the end. Predictably, it's a controversial subject. This is one of the main reasons why I'm glad there are many adaptations of Cinderella. Each has its own unique tone and emphasizes different themes, which lead to different outcomes for the stepfamily in the end. So there's no single way that the story of Cinderella encourages real-world abuse victims to relate to their former abusers. From a wide array of different valid interpretations of the tale, we can choose the ones that we personally find the most resonant.

Here are just a few of the best examples:

Disney's 2015 live action Cinderella centers on Ella's resolve to "have courage and be kind," despite all the hardships she goes through. It's about staying true to your values against all odds. Lady Tremaine's own past suffering has made her bitter, selfish, and spiteful, and she would love to see Ella change in the same way, but Ella refuses. Hence her forgiveness of Lady Tremaine in the end serves as an empowering act; it's the ultimate loyalty to her value of kindness, and the ultimate proof that she'll never be like her stepmother.

Rossini's 1817 opera La Cenerentola likewise revolves around "the triumph of goodness," although the emphasis is less on Angelina's choice to stay kind against all odds, and more on social commentary: i.e. that kindness and virtue matter more than social status, wealth, or power. So again, it's important that even after she rises to royalty and has the power to punish her stepfamily, Angelina stays true to her compassionate nature, forgives them, and saves them from the financial ruin they've brought on themselves.

Disney's 1950 animated classic, on the other hand, is less about staying true to your values than about hope in the face of adversity. While Cinderella's kindness is still important, the bigger emphasis is on her persistent faith in her dreams of happiness, and despite all of Lady Tremaine's efforts to crush it, her optimism wins. In a story that's first and foremost about faith and hope, it doesn't matter whether the villains are forgiven or punished. Hence the stepfamily is simply absent from the happy ending.

The 1997 remake of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, on the other hand, has its Cinderella learn to do more than just dream of a better life, and learn that she deserves to be loved and has no obligation to her abusers just because they're her "family." Hence the climax where she finally resolves to run away, which leads to the Prince discovering her outside just in time, and the ending where the castle gates are slammed in the stepfamily's faces.

The original 1957 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical has a similar arc for Cinderella, culminating in her running away. But the script's tone is more playful and satirical as a whole. So in the end, the stepfamily is allowed to attend the wedding, fawning obsequiously over Cinderella now that she's a princess, and it seems that they'll always be a part of the royal family's lives as annoying yet harmless in-laws, much like Jane Austen antagonists.

1955's The Glass Slipper, which averts the traditional gentle and kind Cinderella and instead lets Ella be an angry, unsociable rebel, isn't about any of the above themes. Instead it's the tale of an emotionally scarred, self-hating outcast who finally finds love and acceptance and who learns to open her heart to it. The stepfamily's role in this version is understated, so seeing them reluctantly curtsey to Ella near the end is all the closure we need for them.

1998's Ever After has its heroine come into her own as a strong, clever, idealistic woman who will be an excellent future queen, and teach her prince to be a better future king too. Hence her settling her stepfamily's fate in a way that combines regal diplomacy and mercy with justice: reducing their sentence from deportation to the tit-for-tat punishment of being reduced to servants. The fact that Baroness Rodmilla not only abused her, but sold her into slavery to a lascivious man, makes it all the more appropriate that Danielle doesn't forgive her: an act like that crosses a certain line.

All of these different twists are valid. Each adaptation's different themes suit the story well, and each different ending for the stepfamily fits the tone and themes of the adaptation. None should be taken as the ultimate message of how to deal with abusers. But I'm glad that they all exist and offer different perspectives to explore and choose from.

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I was tagged by @old-man-ghost thank you!

Between me not having gifs to post and that recent post I reblogged on physical media, I’m going to do something barely within the letters but hopefully within the spirit of the tag game. The original game is posting gifs from your favorite movies without labeling them. I’m going to do a sentence or two per movie mostly so this post isn’t just this paragraph & a photo.

Beauty and the Beast (1991): This one should not be a surprise at all. <3

(If BATB 2022 had gotten a physical release it’d be here as well)

The Librarian trilogy: Are they good movies? Not really, but they feature my blorbo Flynn Carsen and without them the show wouldn’t exist. Well, excitingly there’ll be another sequel show soon.

4 Pokémon movies: I enjoy all four of these movies, although probably my favorite is 4Ever.

Muppet Treasure Island: So quotable and funny, I’ve loved this movie for a long time.

Robin Hood (1973): Another long-time favorite, I do enjoy the music & characters.

George of the Jungle: Quite possibly the funniest movie I’ve ever seen, to the point even explaining a joke becomes hilarious. It also has a lot of heart & thought put into it. Please note that nostalgia is probably a factor here along with most of these choices.

The Court Jester: Another excellent comedic film with heart. It is fun to see Glynis Johns & Angela Lansbury as the main female characters.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: I enjoy all three versions I’ve seen (1957, 1965, & 1997) although my favorite is 1997 in part because I saw it first as a kid. Frankly, I think we should get a fourth movie based off of it if the movie industry is doing all these remakes anyway.

Love & Friendship: A very amusing adaptation of Lady Susan; it’s more biting than the usual Austen adaptation I think. While I definitely enjoyed Sense & Sensibility (2024), I think I need a bit longer than a movie to determine if it’s a favorite.

Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron: I love the original movie and have done so since I first saw it- which likely was within a year or so of its release. Its soundtrack, animation, story, and characters are all awesome. While I’ve gathered the recent cartoons go against the original movie’s message, I’ll be honest that didn’t stop me from getting my own little Spirit plushie.

Bridges Live: So what happened is that I got this back in January 2023, having adored BATB 2022 and spotting that Idina Menzel (Elsa!) is involved both on the CD and the concert DVD. It was such a good time that things spiraled from there regarding me obtaining Josh Groban content. I still need to watch them in Chess in Concert though.

Tagging @asokatanos @magic-owl @ladytharen @mylittleredgirl @hopecomesbacktolife @kiashyel @jadelotusflower @captains-clever-goose @ladyofthelake @fantasysci5 and anyone else who’d like to participate! (Feel free to do the gifs instead of my non-standard format)

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Jon Cypher and Julie Andrews in the (original) 1957 live television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Cinderella"

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Rogers And Hammerstein film projects I have seen ranked

Just saw a production of Carousel recently so decided to rank thefilmed version of Rogers and Hammerstein I have seen

10.King and I 1999

SAw it as a kid,barely remember it save for how weird it was

9.Cinderella 1957

So of the three versions of Cinderella this is my least favorite

8.South PAcific 1958

I just dont like this play in general beyond the music

7.Oklahoma 1955

Rod Steiger is good but I think this is a meh

6.Carousel 1956

Its a decent film ,You'll Never Walk Alone is one of their best songs though

5.Oklahoma 1998-Good cast though I find it funny that Van Helsing is a Oklahoma reunion

4.King and I 1956

DEobrah Kerr and Yul Brynner have fire chemistry

3.Sound of Music 1965

Of the big screen Rodgers and Hammerstein films this is by far the best

2.Cinderella 1997

Honestly these top 2 flip flop for me cause this is an amazing production with a fabulous cast

Cinderella 1965

However this is the first Rodgers and Hammerstein thing I fully fell in love with

Whats your rankings?Agree? Disagree ?

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Impossible/It's Possible | From RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA (1957)

But the world is full of zanies and fools

Who don’t believe in sensible rules

And won’t believe what sensible people say

And because these daft and dewey-eyed dopes

Keep building up impossible hopes

Impossible things are happening every day

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LOSER'S BRACKET NOMINATIONS!

It is time to announce the LOSER'S BRACKET!

The Loser's Bracket is meant to give some love to characters who lost early, so anyone who has made it to the Quarterfinals and farther (even if they lose there) has gotten far enough they don't really need the love of the Loser's Bracket. During our last tournament Red Riding Poll, the Loser's Bracket winner was a character who hadn't even made it out of Round 1! This is for all the characters who might have been less recognizable but still awesome, to all the characters that got overshadowed by others.

The rules for nominations:

The Loser's Bracket will be either a 16 or 32 single elimination bracket, depending on the amount of nominations that are sent in.

Unlike the main tournament, where the polls each lasted a week, the polls for the Loser's Bracket will last only a day. That means the entire Loser's Bracket will probably last around a week.

Nominate as many characters as you want, but don't nominate the same character multiple times. Be mindful that the most nominated characters will be the ones that will make it to the bracket. Also nominate characters one at a time.

Propaganda from the Main Tournament will not appear, but feel free to submit any propaganda you want for why the character should win the Loser's Bracket!

Nominations open today and will close on the 15th of January, the same day the Quarterfinals of the main tournament loses.

Be respectful! Just because your fave didn't make it as far as you wanted in the main tournament or the Loser's Bracket, doesn't mean that the other contestants aren't worthwhile either! Remember, every character in this tournament have people who love them just as much as you love your fave, so please be courteous!

NOMINATE CHARACTERS HERE

Under the cut is a list of every character who has lost & which round they lost in. Feel free to consult the list if you want to jog your memory on which Cinderellas you might want to nominate.

Preliminary Round Losers

Danielle de Barbarac (Ever After novel by Wendy Loggia)*

Danielle de Barbarac (Ever After the Musical)*

Julie Andrews as Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957)**

Leslie Ann Warrens as Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965)**

Various Actresses as Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella the Musical (2015) **

Cinderella (Hey, Cinderella!)

Pigerella (Muppet Babies 1984)

Peter Parker / Prince of Arachne (Spider-Man Fairy Tales)

*Not to be confused with Danielle de Barbarac from the movie Ever After (1998), which has placed in the quarterfinals of the main tournament.

**Not to be confused with Brandy as Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997), which lost in Round 1.

Round 1 Losers

Ella (Disney's Cinderella live-action)

Hello Kitty as Cinderella (Hello Kitty no Cinderella)

Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russian/East European Fairytale Variant)

Rhodopis (Greek Fairytale Variant)

Eun Ha Won (Cinderella with Four Knights)

Mireleh (The Way Meat Loves Salt by Nina Jaffe/Louise August)

Leila Takashiro (Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri)

Hoshizora Miyuki / "Cure Happy" as Cinderella (Smile PreCure / Glitter Force)

Isabell Heartwell (Cinder's Ball)

Cinderella (Mary Skelter)

Ella of Maidenvale / Cinderella (The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani)

Eleanor / Cinderella (The Wide-Awake Princess by E.D. Baker)

Vassa (Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter)

Cinderella (Fables)

Rose Cinderella (Regal Academy)

Maria Aparecida "Cida" dos Santos Souza (Cheias de Charme)

Ella of Frell (Ella Enchanted 2004)*

Danielle Whiteshore (nee de Glas) (Princess series by Jim C. Hines)

Jess Parker (The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy)

Fairy Tail - Rella (Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG)

Cindy (How to Save Your Tail by Mary Elizabeth Hanson)

Cinder Edna (Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson)

Elle Wittimer (Geekerella by Ashley Poston)

Sophie Beckett (An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn)

Cynthia "Cyn" Robinson (Cinders) (Sapphic Fairy Tales by Cara Malone)

Lucina Jarvis (Grimm)

Mary Santiago (Another Cinderella Story)

Cinderella (Cinderella 2021)

Cinderella (Bad Cinderella)

Cinderella (The Slipper and the Rose)

Threadarella (Monster High: Scarily Ever After)

Popelka (Three Wishes for Cinderella)

CinderElmo (Sesame Street: CinderElmo)

Minnie Mouse as "Minnie-rella" (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse)

Brittany Miller as Cinderella (Alvin and the Chipmunks)

Cinderella (Sabrina: The Animated Series)

Fella (CinderFella)

Cinderella (Swing Shift Cinderella)

Yasmin as Cinderella (Bratz: Kids Fairy Tales)

Cinderella (Collector Plates)

Touya Kinomoto as Cinderella (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Reki Kyan as "Cindereki" (Sk8 the Infinity)

Cinderella (Stand of Aya Tsuji) (Jojo's Biazzre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable)

Dulcie Hastings (nee Duveen) aka Cinderella (Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie)

Scarecrow as "Scarecrowello" (D'Ocon Mumfie)

Cinderella (Girl Genius Fairytale Theater Break: Cinderella)

Cendrillon (Cendrillon by Telephone)

Morgan Philips (Disenchanted)

Cinderella (Dimension 20: Neverafter)

Brandy as Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella 1997)

Cinder Fall (RWBY)

Cinderella / Princess Ella / Ashley Boyd (Once Upon a Time)

Cinderella (Kingdom Hearts)

Cinders (Cinders)

Cinderella (SINoALICE)

Cinderella (Sid Story)

Xing Xing (Bound by Donna Jo Napoli)

Clara (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire)

Kate Kassell / Nate Ganymede (After the Ball)

Shindou Rei (Boku wa Ohime sama ni Narenai)

Haine Otomiya / "Seashore Cinderella" (The Gentleman's Alliance Cross)

Ghauri (Azure Striker Gunvolt)

Cinciarell Winchestion (Don't Call Javotte an Evil Stepsister)

Cinderella (Blood Bank)

*Not to be confused with the original book Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, which has placed in the quarterfinals in the main tournament.

Round 2 Losers

Hatsune Miku as Cinderella (Various Songs) (Vocaloid)

Ye Xian (Cinderella Fairytale Variant)

Hamupipőke (Hungarian Fairytale Variant)

Cendrillon (Otogi-Juushi Akazukin)

Cinderella (Grimm Notes)

Elegant "Ella" Herringbone Coach (Disenchanted: The Trials of Cinderella by Megan Morrison)

Vasilisa "Vasya" Petrovna (The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden)

Cinderellis (Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine)

La Cenerentola (La Cenerentola (La Cenerento Laossia La Bontà in Trionfo)

Imogen Keegan (Damsel Distressed by Kelsey Macke)

Cinderumpelstiltskin (The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka/Lane Smith)

Bronwyn Murdoch (The Prince Who Loved Me by Karen Hawkins)

Queen Cinderella (10th Kingdom)

Katie Gibbs (A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song)

Ella (Happily N'Ever After)

Ashlynn Ella (Ever After High)

Baby Gonzo as "Gonzo-rella" (Muppet Babies 2018)

Chuckie Finster as "Finsterella" (Rugrats)

Betty Boop as Cinderella (Betty Boop: Poor Cinderella)

Ella (Total Drama: Pahkitew Island)

Mettaton as Cinderella (Undertale)

Cinderella (Once Upon a Crime)

Ella Brown (Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix)

Cinderella (Cinderella by The Cheetah Girls)

Linh Cinder / Selene Blackburn (The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyers)

Carrie White (Carrie by Stephen King)

Lucette Riella Britton (Cinderella Phenomenon)

Cinderella (TAISHO x ALICE)

Aisling "Ash" (Ash by Malinda Lo)

Euphemia "Effie" Reeves (Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater)

Cinderella (Cinderella Monogatari)

Itsumi Tachibana (You Are My Princess)

Round 3 Losers

Cinderella/Aschenputtel/Cendrillon (German/General European Fairytale Variant)

Settarah (The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo/Robert Florczak)

Giselle Lai (Cinderelle)

Mia Basile (Cinderella the Cat)

Cinderella / Prinzessin (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters & TCG)

Cindy (If the Shoe Fits by Julia Murphy)

Sam Montgomery (A Cinderella Story)

Ella (The Glass Slipper)

Scrooge McDuck as "Scroogerello" (Ducktales 1987)

Popeye the Sailor Man as "Cinderfella" (Popeye the Sailor Man: Ancient Fishtory)

Cendrillon (Persona of Sumi Yoshizawa / Violet) (Persona 5)

Harper Finkle as "Harperella" (Wizards of Waverly Place)

Cinderella (Into the Woods)

Rin Hoshizora as Cinderella (Love Live!)

Cinderella (Burn the Witch) (Bleach)

Ashley Vans (A Wicked Tale of Cinderella's Stepmom / I Raised Cinderella Preciously)

Round 4 Losers

Cinderella (Disney's Cinderella)

Cinderella "Cindy" Baxter (The Sisters Grimm)

Cinderella (Cinderella Penguin, or, the Little Glass Flipper)

Ella (Cinder Ella) (Black Trans Fairy Tales)

Barbie as Cinderella (Barbie Dolls)

Saki Hanajima as "Cinderella-ish" (Fruits Basket)

Cinderella (Shrek)

Miyo Saimori (My Happy Marriage)

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How many musicals can one single song be cut from? Let's take a look at Boys and Girls Like You and Me, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

It originally featured in the 1943 musical Oklahoma!, but was cut before opening. I can't find any recordings of it from this show, although I would love if someone could prove me wrong. Very quickly, it was placed into the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis - this show has an original score by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane (at least nominally; Martin claimed after Blane's death that it was a solo endeavour), but contains songs from other composers, and this was to be one. Once again, it was cut at the last second.

In 1949, the song wound up on the cutting room floor yet again. This time it made it all the way to being filmed, in Busby Berkeley's film Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Again, this is a film with a score majorly by other composers (Roger Edens on music, Betty Comden and Adolph Green on lyrics), but with a couple of interpolations, as our song was intended to be. It was thought to slow down the picture too much; take a look at the clip below, sung by Frank Sinatra to Betty Garrett, and see what you think.

In 1957, Rodgers and Hammerstein finally get it in a show - their own Cinderella, sung by the Queen. Yet, surprisingly, it's hard to find clips of this, as it has been cut from every telecast of the musical. Technically in the score, the song's disposability seems to have struck again. It's on the International Tour cast recording below, which gives you an idea of its scarcity.

And, although it did not feature in the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film State Fair, it did make it into the 1996 stage musical version, posthumous for both writers and interpolating many cut songs from their previous shows. Listen below:

Should it have been cut so often? Was it the gem that enough people clearly thought it was to not let it die? See what you think.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” starring Julie Andrews, aired Live on CBS #OnThisDay in 1957.

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Jon Cypher and Julie Andrews, for the (original) 1957 Live Television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.