The Glass Slipper (1955)

Walter Pidgeon: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : A long time ago in a small principality somewhere in the middle of a happy Europe, there was a rich old duke who lived happily in a fine palace, and a number of ladies and gentleman who lived happily on a fashionable hill, and everybody else who lived happily in the village. Now, it came to pass that in the spring, three days of festival were declared. They were celebrating the return of Prince Charles, the only son of the reigning duke. Most of the townspeople had never seen Prince Charles. He had been away for many years, getting his education of the finest universities, cafes, and boudoirs of Paris, London and Vienna.

• Narrator : Serafina: languid, seductive, effortlessly alluring, and cold as a cobra.

• Narrator : Birdena: vivacious, dazzling, beautiful as a rose, and poisonous as a toadstool.

• Narrator : It was the old story of the rejected becoming all the more rejected because they behaved badly because they'd been rejected - one of those, uh, circles. And there it was again.

• Narrator : Preparations for the great Ball began. Rub, rub, rub, and rub. Twenty minutes of rub and rub.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : ...and everybody lived happily ever after.