Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders

A COMEDY ON THE MOVIES WITH THE IRREPRESSIBLE COLEEN MOORE!

NR 1926 · 75 min · ★ 7.1 · Romance, Comedy

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Directed by Alfred E. Green

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