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Título original: A Kiss for Cinderella
Director: Herbert Brenon
Año: 1925
País: USA
Guión: Willis Goldbeck, Townsend Martin (basado en la obra de teatro “A Kiss for Cinderella” de James M. Barrie, 1916)
Producción: Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Intérpretes: Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston, Henry Vibart, Dorothy Cumming, Ivan Simpson
Duración: 103 min.
Argumento: Jane pierde el conocimiento cuando es alcanzada por un extraño rayo de luz durante un bombardeo en Londres en plena Primera Guerra Mundial. Durante su sueño, imagina su vida como si se tratase del célebre cuento 'La Cenicienta'.
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WILLIAM K. EVERSON:
Manuscrito de William K. Everson:…Es en los años 20 donde encontramos la mayor concentración de clásicos permanentes del cine americano [silente]: Sunrise (Murnau), Greed (Stroheim), The Big Parede (Vidor) A Kiss for Cinderella (Brenon), Isn’t Life Wonderful? y Orphans of the Storm (Griffith), The Iron Horse y Four Sons (Ford), Seventh Heaven (Borzage) y muchos más…
GUIDE OF THE SILENT YEARS OF AMERICAN CINEMA (Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs):
KISS FOR CINDERELLA, A (1926). Fantasy drama. Directed by Herbert Brenon; with Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston, Henry Vibart, Dorothy Cumming, Ivan Simpson, Dorothy Walters, Flora Finch, Juliet Brenon, Marilyn McLain, Pattie Coakley, Mary Christian; screenplay by Willis Goldbeck, Townsend Martin; from play by James M. Barrie.
During World War I, a young girl works as an underpaid cleaning woman for an artist, but a policeman believes she is a spy when she allows a light to show during an air raid warning. Upon investigating he finds she cares for some even younger war orphans with a cheerful, optimistic attitude, despite their collective poverty. One winter night she falls asleep in the snow and dreams of a fairy tale existence, and is found near death when she awakens.
Herbert Brenon's A Kiss For Cinderella is an even more engaging fantasy and certainly a more moving drama than his adaptation of Barrie's Peter Pan, also starring Betty Bronson. The sense of strangeness and mystery that begins the picture, combined with Bronson's compellingly odd character, has a fascination that holds attention until the end. The dream sequence is a charming representation of a poor child's fantasy. Although the ending seems somewhat of a letdown with its conventionality, the film as a whole is an offbeat gem.
BETTY BRONSON
Saludos