Classic Friday : Cinderfella (1960) 7/10

Starring : Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Anna Maria Alberghetti
Director : Frank Tashlin
Running Time : 97 mins

Following his father’s death, Fella (Lewis) is left in the hands of his stepmother (Anderson) who turns him into a veritable slave around the house, but when Fella meets his fairy Godfather (Wynn), he is convinced that he can leave his life of servitude and marry Princess Charmein (Alberghetti).

Along with The Nutty Professor, this is probably one of Lewis’s most remembered and most loved performances. The movie has the usual Lewis style which ignores convention and has the appearance of a stage rather than a movie set, and the story – a classic in its own right – is nicely turned on its head for a more 20th century feel.

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