Tayny sledstviya (2000)

Actors: Ada Staviskaya (producer), Aleksandr Zaretzky (editor), Andrey Kamorin (producer), Mikhail Vasserbaum (director), Aleksandr Novikov (actor), Olga Maneeva (producer), Aleksandr Bargman (actor), Aleksey Osipov (actor), Anna Kovalchuk (actress), Emiliya Spivak (actress), Ilya Makarov (director), Aleksandr Burtsev (director), Lera Gorin (actor), Oleg Ogiy (actor), Yevgeni Fyodorov (composer),

Genres: Crime, Mystery,

The Glass Slipper (1955)

Actors: Robert R. Stephenson (actor), Lurene Tuttle (actress), Margaret Bert (actress), Leslie Caron (actress), Kathryn Sheldon (actress), Elsa Lanchester (actress), Gail Bonney (actress), Keenan Wynn (actor), Jessie Arnold (actress), Bud Osborne (actor), Walter Pidgeon (actor), Michael Wilding (actor), Reginald Simpson (actor), Bronislau Kaper (composer), Edwin H. Knopf (producer),

Plot: In a small pleasant European village, there is one unhappy person: Ella. She is despised by everyone, and mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters. Out feeling miserable one day, Ella meets a handsome young man, who falls for her. He is really Prince Charles, the son of the Duke, but he tells her he is the son of the cook, and invites her to a great ball at the Duke's castle. A strange woman who lives in the mountains by herself befriends Ella, and dresses her up so she can attend the ball. She goes, and is a great success, but must run out at midnight. In her haste, she drops a single glass slipper. The Prince uses the slipper to find her.

Keywords: ball, ballerina, ballet, chef, dancing, daydream, duke, fairy-godmother, fairy-tale, falling-into-water
Genres: Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Ella: The son of cook in the palace of the Duc.

Ella: Who is Mrs. Toquet?::Widow Sonder: Isn't she the crazy old woman who lives in the woods, she's harmless but she steals.::[adjusting Serafina's stays]::Ella: Has she always been like that? I mean has she always...::Widow Sonder: They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to worse, stuffed her head with full of ideas, and now she's a bit addled.::Serafina: A bit addled? Oh, Mother! She's as crazy as a cockroach.

Kovin: [taps charles with his pipe] You're not well Charles. You're not yourself.::Kovin: Kovin: You know what ails you. Careful Charles, remember your special weakness.::Prince Charles: [playing the melody to "climbing rose" on the piano] She's frightened sad and hurt. afraid to hope, expecting ridicule. A tender heart half afraid to love.::Kovin: Oh careful Charles.::Prince Charles: [upset, he stops playing] Why be careful? Every man has his own special vulnerability. I once knew a man who couldn't resist fat women; women with rolls. Another who fell madly in love with everytime a woman slapped his face, well this is mine. [smiles, and resumes playing, this time a more jovial variation of the tune] Why go against nature?

Cousin Loulou: I should like to present my cousin Mrs. Sonder, and her two daughters Birdena and Serafina.::Kovin: [interrupts, elbowing his way between Birdena and the Widow] Charles. I beg your pardon.::Birdena: It's a great privilege, Your Highness. I'm looking forward to hearing about your travels.::Serafina: Oh yes! We're very fond of Paris.::Prince Charles: Oh, you know Paris?::Birdena: Oh, we don't precisely know Paris, but we're very devoted to it, aren't we, Cousin Loulou? It's so French!

Ella: Why, Mrs. Toquet!::Mrs. Toquet: Why not Mrs. Toquet?

Mrs. Toquet: What's your name?::Ella: Elle, but they won't even call me by name! They call me, Edwin and Willy and the others, because of the ashes they call me Cinderella.::Mrs. Toquet: Cinderella... Cin-der-el-la. Such a beautiful word, I like it very much. There are other words I like very much, like windowsill and elbow. El-bow. And I like Apple Dumpling too. Apple dumpling, it's a comical word. Apple Dumpling. Pickle Relish! That has a nice snap to it! What happened to your hair?

Ella: Your shoes are getting wet!::Mrs. Toquet: Oh, it's the water...