Review of The Glass Slipper

Actress Estelle Winwood embodies "Cinder" Ella's fairy godmother Mrs. Toquet as an apparent victim of early-onset Alzheimer's Disease. Her brain gets stuck like a scratched vinyl record on nonsense syllables, including "elbow" and "pickle relish." Since Ella doesn't have any other well-wishers, she tries to grin and bear Toquet's Tourette's-like outbursts of "apple dumplings" and "windowsills." This character's brain malfunctions seemingly infected the rest of the cast, as well as the crew, with ballet tights being slapped on Mr. Elizabeth Taylor (Michael Wilding) every other scene, partly to facilitate occasional ten-minute ballet movements randomly inserted here and there. It's said that "If the shoe fits, wear it," but Ella seems far better suited to hoofing it barefoot rather than in THE GLASS SLIPPER. Ella enchanted seems bound for a worse disaster than the carriage wreck portrayed in this film. Princess Grace of Monaco and Princess Di of Wales found royal conveyances to be no bed of roses. Since Ella is by disposition suicidal ("I wish I were dead" is her favorite expression), it does not look like her "Prince Charles" is in for a happy union.