The Glass Slipper (film)

The Glass Slipper
Original film poster
Directed byCharles Walters
Written byHelen Deutsch
Based onCendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre
1697 fairy tale
by Charles Perrault
Produced byEdwin H. Knopf
Starring
CinematographyArthur E. Arling
Edited byFerris Webster
Music byBronislau Kaper
Color processEastmancolor
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • March 24, 1955 (1955-03-24) (U.S.)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,998,000[1]
Box office$2,952,000[1][2]

The Glass Slipper (1955) is an American musical film adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella, made by MGM, directed by Charles Walters and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch. The music score is by Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Arthur E. Arling, the art direction by Daniel B. Cathcart and Cedric Gibbons and costume design by Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose.

The film stars Leslie Caron as Cinderella, and Michael Wilding as the Prince, with Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester, Barry Jones, Lurene Tuttle, Liliane Montevecchi and Walter Pidgeon as the Narrator.

The film received its network television premiere divided into two episodes on the 1967 ABC-TV anthology series Off To See The Wizard.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Domestic take see 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956