Cinderella (R91) Daybill Movie Poster

Cinderella was produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale “Cendrillon” by Charles Perrault. Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film had a limited release in 1950. Directing credits go to Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson. Songs were written by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, and Al Hoffman. Songs in the film include “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes”, “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”, “So This Is Love”, “Sing Sweet Nightingale”, “The Work Song”, and “Cinderella”.

Walt Disney had not had a huge hit since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The production of this film was regarded as a major gamble on his part. At a cost of nearly $3 million, Disney insiders claimed that if Cinderella failed at the box office, then the Disney studio would have closed (given that the studio was already heavily in debt). The film was a huge box office success and allowed Disney to carry on producing films throughout the 1950s.[8]
Awards

The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Sound (C. O. Slyfield), Original Music Score and Best Song for “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear (Music Film) award and the Big Bronze Plate award.

In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its “10 Top 10″— the best ten films in ten “classic” American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Cinderella was acknowledged as the 9th greatest film in the animation genre.