The beautiful Cinderella.
John Grant
Walt Disney Character descrizione of Cenerentola from "Cinderella" (1950)
The character of Cenerentola was posed in live action da Helene Stanley who, to jugde da stills of her performance, was even più beautiful than the screen Cenerentola - although she was brunette rather than blonde. In a 1982 interview with Kur Wiley, Marc Davis, largely responsible for animating Cinderella, compared the character with another of his "creations", Cruella De Vil:
"I think that Cenerentola would have to be the più difficult because she has to be the substance that carries the story all the way through. She has to be believable, she has to be real, and she has to be [someone] that te can feel sympathy for. Storytelling characters like these are rather thankless characters to do because... they don't get laughs! When te do something in animazione and the whole audience laughs at one time at something you've done, it is a tremendous thrill."
Many of the central characters in Disney's features are essentially cyphers - things things happen - but Cenerentola is an exeption. She is da no means a weak-willed character content to let events flow on around her: on the contrary, when the invitation to the ball arrives she uses everything short of physical force to persuade her stepmother and stepsisters that she has every right to attend. Snow White would never have had the strength of character to stick up for herself in this way, but Cenerentola does. It is for this reason perhaps più than any other that she is the most memorable of the Disney heroines.
Helene Stanley
