Anytime I babysat when I was in high school I would show this movie to the kids I was watching, and anytime they wanted to watch any Cinderella movie after that it was this one. This move meant so much to my childhood.
I'm so glad I grew up with this! As a kid, you don't care about race. You care about the story, the characters, the music, and how good it all makes you feel. One of my favorite Cinderella movies :)
I was 35 when I first saw this. Yes, the first thing I noticed was all the different races and was like "What the he....Wow! This is awesome!" Been my favorite version of Cinderella ever since.
I loved this movie so much. I had a crush on the prince as a kid. I loved singing all the songs. I’ve been binge watching it since it was released on Disney+
I was about 14 when I saw this movie. We had the video and watched it many times. I did wonder about the races of the royal family. We thought it was funny thinking about how it was possible for white and black parents to have an Asian kid, but we loved the movie nonetheless. Like I said we watched it many times. Thinking back on it, you could say the diversity of the cast represents a somewhat utopian society where race really doesn't matter. You could say a white king married a black queen and they adopted an Asian prince and none of those actions raised any eyebrows.
My favorite animated Disney Prince will always be Prince Adam (The Beast) but when it comes to the real ones, even with the current live action remakes & the future ones, Paolo is forever the only one for me 💙🤍💜
I've always thought of this as my favorite version of Cinderella, even when I hadn't seen it for 12-15 years. After rewatching it recently, I can confirm it is still my favorite version of Cinderella. So lucky that I got to grow up with this version and so happy that I finally got to watch it again!
Loved this movie as a kid and still do. I didn’t notice skin color growing up and never questioned why a black mother and white father produced an Asian son. Then as I got older people pointed it out. I wish we could all see people from the same lense as I did as a child.
@@andreasmeelie1889 They really didn’t do much for it, promotion or soundtrack wise. Whitney said it’s the one thing she regretted about Cinderella is the soundtrack.
it was brandy record label at the time disney and whitney want the soundtrack. But brandy label was afraid that people think she was doing broadway and not R&B anymore.
I’m glad Whitney kept pushing for this. I’m also glad she stepped back from Cinderella. Her voice is amazing and the songs the Fairy Godmother sings were more suited to her talent. Love the diversity in this cast. He said it himself Love+Love=Love.
She was & never is slept on. My mom was a teenager in the 90’s she said Brandy was the shit in the 90’s Brandy had a Barbie, albums, tv show, first black Cinderella, Cover girl on magazines
Exactly. It’s sad how this movie was celebrated because of different races playing traditionally white roles & over 20 years later there are people hating on another film doing the same thing.
As long as they give her red hair, I'll be happy. I'll especially be happy if they do what this movie did and just throw race out the window and have it be 100% color-blind. I want her sisters to be Asian, Hispanic, white, black, and all that jazz.
Absolutely love this version of Cinderella, it makes me feel good to see so many of my favorite actors, actresses, and singing artists in one great production and movie. Such a amalgam of talent!!!
This was beyond groundbreaking at the time, but it eventually became LEGENDARY...aside from a multiracial cast. Brandy personified Cinderella for many young girls in 1997 and possibly generations to come. 💗 I still remember this version being my fave!!!
This was my favorite Cinderella as a kid. I remember saying to my parents she's my favorite and they asked why. I said, she isn't cartoon like all princesses! she is a real princess!!!
She was the first Cinderella I saw as a toddler and funny thing is when I looked at the original Walt Disney version I thought it was a cheap knockoff.
Ever After was my favorite version of Cinderella just because of the story, but this Cinderella will always be my favorite Disney movie. My VCR destroyed mine, but I was thrilled to find it on RUclips several years back. The songs the costumes and the humor were spot on. My favorite scene was the waltz Cinderella and Prince Charming did while singing 10 minutes ago. It felt like I was waltzing, too. As an 8-year-old, this movie was magical. As a Black girl, this movie was iconic. I had 2 Brandy Cinderella Dolls. I kept one in the box, and I played with the other daily. I lost both of them in a tornadoe. Now I want to search EBay for her doll and Whitney's too.
I've seen many versions of this story from musicals to movies to operas and plays. This is my favorite version of the classic fairy-tale. The main reason is because of the casting... where an African-American girl sitting at her television set in 1997 to see someone like her on the screen, allowed her to dream and believe that anything is possible. I believed that my biggest and wildest dreams were possible. With that in my mind and heart, I knew I could do anything. It's possible!
Ive loved this film since I was 5, when it first aired on the wonderful world of disney!!! My favorite Cinderella next to ever after. Whoopi is right, this was Hamilton before Hamilton. And the crazy thing is, here I am at 29, introducing this to my almost 2 year old daughter. This movie is timeless and truly has a legacy.
One of best Cinderella adaptation , everything was great from the songs to costumes and dancing sequences .All actors were good in both acting and singing , and almost all deserved to have even bigger carriers.
I first watched this on accident. I wanted my parents to rent cartoon cinderella for me but they grabbed the wrong one. I was disappointed but gave it a shot and I am so glad I watched it. It is a favorite. So good.
This movie meant SO much to me as a kid. I was a 9-10 year old kid who being a child of colour (I am spanish/south american) where everything in 90's australian media was very white centric but also disney was HUGE during this (outside of some rare circumstances). But seeing a dark skinned cinderella who was a princess was incredible. I finally felt included for once.
This is my favorite Version of the Cinderella movie. I had forgotten that Victor Garner was in Titanic. His favorite roles of mine are his role in Cinderella & Daddy Warbucks in Annie.
Brandy role has helped execs and others make the argument against others today for actresses such as Halle to play Ariel by being able to reference it as being done before and loved and a classic when done tastefully and respectfully
Absolutely love this version of Cinderella. Brandy and Whitney Houston were incredible in it. Also, I love the song for the Stepmother, it actually adds some depth to her character without having to add more detail to the storyline. The Whole cast was amazing and brilliant!
I remember watching this with my parents when it premiered. Think I might have to get out my DVD of it and give it a watch because its been a long time!
as a young white child, i’m very glad my parents had me growing up with this cinderella. brandy and whitney were wonderful and this will forever be my favorite cinderella.
I love this movie! I get the goosebumps when they start to sing. So happy that it's on Disney+. I haven't watch it in a long time, but I'm pretty sure that Disney has brushed it up made it full HD for Disney+. Can't wait to see all the details
This was too good for this sinful world, and I am so glad we got it. Watching it at 28, it holds the same magic that it did at 5...I just understand it deeper and it continues to speak to me over and over again *sets queue on Disney+*
Same. Those of us who experienced this film as a 90s kid were truly blessed. At 29 I still am in love with this film and it still is so timeless. The magic and the music lives on. It truly has a legacy. I think I have an even deeper appreciation for this film than I did when I was 5. I'm now introducing it to my 2 year old daughter.
This is my favorite version of Cinderella, and I think it always will be. As much as Whitney wanted to be Cinderella, she makes the perfect godmother. Cinderella has a meek and demure personality, and Whitney was the strong, powerful woman with a strong, powerful voice that turned the fairy godmother from a fairly forgettable role, into the pillar of Cinderella's confidence. Who wouldn't feel like they could take on a royal ball after a real pep talk in song form from the great Whitney Houston???
The great Whitney Houston said on CNN that she grew up wanting to be Julie Andrews. the wonderful Julie who was the original Cinderella. A few years later Whitney became executive producer to The Princess Diaries and finally worked with Julie! That"s fantastic.
On another note on the massive budget, one of the sets, most likely Cinderella's stepmother's house, was one of the same soundstages that were used for _The Wizard of Oz._
The MoMusu production of R&H's Cinderella is one of my faves (weird step-sister song placement not withstanding) but I will always always ALWAYS have a soft spot in my heart for this version. I watched it air live for the first time when it came out when I was a kid and it was just so magical! Though I still joked about how in the 90s everyone kept trying to make Whoopie Goldberg sing. XD
This was my favorite Cinderella growing up. When it finally came on Disney+ I felt like a little kid again, twirling around in her living room while the fairy godmother gave her opening speech
I was delighted to know they had a black Cinderella, so Tiana technically isn't the first black Disney princess, the first ANIMATED black princess, but still. The diversity is great.
I was 5 when this movie came out. I was in foster care and I was going to be adopted six months later. My adoptive family was white. Watching this movie for the first time make me realize that I could be any Disney princess regardless of my skin color. I still love this movie. I watched the first day it was released on Disney Plus.
I love this movie!!!! Ever After a Cinderella story and this version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella are my favorite versions of Cinderella. Beautifully well done ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Something else that could be added to #5 - Some Lyrics Were Changed to Represent Brandy's Skin Color - In the original 1957 version with Julie Andrews and in the 1965 version with Leslie Ann Warren, there's a lyric in "In My Own Little Corner" which was changed in the 1997 version. The original lyrics are "I'm a slave from Calcutta, I'm a queen in Peru". In Whitney Houston's Cinderella, the lyrics were changed to "I'm a thief in Calcutta, I'm a queen in Peru". The fact that Brandy was black... and singing lyrics where she was fantasizing about being a slave just wouldn't fly... so they changed the word "slave" to "thief". The word might have been changed in 1997 anyhow even if Cinderella was being played by a white actress, however, the fact that Brandy was black made changing that one word all the more compelling.
This is my favorite version because I just love the diversity! They need to do more movies like this and I remember watching this at age 8 and I loved it ever since! 👸🏾💖😎🥰😘
I think this was a much better adaptation than the classic 1950 animated film. With the music, although "Bibbity Bobbity Boo" and "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" are classics, this is Rodgers and Hammerstein. With the story, we actually get to know the prince. He's not some mystery that we don't see until the ball. We get a lot more character introduction and development. The 1950 film has a lot of emphasis on the cat and mouse chases. Acting-wise, it's about even. Bernadette Peters has a more comical approach as the stepmother, while Eleanor Audley is more vicious and menacing. Ilene Woods and Brandy both do a fabulous job as Cinderella. Verna Felton and Whitney Houston are both great as the fairy godmother.
I noticed the multiracial cast when I was little and I loved it then as much I love it now. And I loved brandy and her singing and she’s so pretty and this is the Cinderella film with best fairy godmother ever. (And no one can convince me otherwise) I had a crush on the prince and whoopi had me laughing all the time. I always remembered the king as “the guy from the big boat movie “ when I was younger lol.
Brandy was not the first black Cinderella, she's technically the fifth. The first black Cinderella was Cleo Lane, followed by Charlayne Woodward, Jennifer Beals and Della Miles.
This movie shows how colorblind my child self was. As a kid, I legit thought that Black Mom + White Dad = Asian son But all jokes aside, I love how race was never an issue in the movie (aside from the lyrical changes in the Stepsisters' Laments) and the natural harmony it showed was amazing
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella was never on Broadway until 2013 when Laura Osnes got the role. Julie Andrews played her in the musical they wrote for her to be a tv movie in 1957. And Brandy wasn't just known for her music she also was doing Moesha
I still remember watching this for the first time on the Wonderful World of Disney - I was obsessed with the soundtrack for this from the Julia Andrews version so I was thrilled to have a more modern version. -- K
The best. RIP Natalie Desselle 💙 RIP Whitney Houston ❤️
Yeah Rest In Peace
Amen! Natalie was my soror. We pledged together at Grambling State University. I miss her dearly.
Natalie could steal a scene..."I WANNA CHANCE AT HIM"✌❤
I didn't know Natalie passed away! I loved her!
Natalie is dead. No wonder I haven’t heard from her lately. I liked her in BAPS. I still mourn Whitney though.
Brandy and the late Whitney Houston’s Cinderella version is still a classic.
Anytime I babysat when I was in high school I would show this movie to the kids I was watching, and anytime they wanted to watch any Cinderella movie after that it was this one. This move meant so much to my childhood.
Definitely one of the best Cinderella movies along with Ever After
Ever After is so good! 🥰
Yessss
Yasss Ever After is my favorite non musical fairytale 😍😍😍
Tasteeee
Disney’s Cinderella was way better.
I'm so glad I grew up with this! As a kid, you don't care about race. You care about the story, the characters, the music, and how good it all makes you feel. One of my favorite Cinderella movies :)
Yes!!!
I absolutely agree, as a child this was my favorite movie and never noticed the races till adulthood. Love it though and never bothered
I was 35 when I first saw this. Yes, the first thing I noticed was all the different races and was like "What the he....Wow! This is awesome!" Been my favorite version of Cinderella ever since.
I loved this movie so much. I had a crush on the prince as a kid. I loved singing all the songs. I’ve been binge watching it since it was released on Disney+
I was about 14 when I saw this movie. We had the video and watched it many times. I did wonder about the races of the royal family. We thought it was funny thinking about how it was possible for white and black parents to have an Asian kid, but we loved the movie nonetheless. Like I said we watched it many times.
Thinking back on it, you could say the diversity of the cast represents a somewhat utopian society where race really doesn't matter. You could say a white king married a black queen and they adopted an Asian prince and none of those actions raised any eyebrows.
Whitney Houston's music always giving me goosebumps.
Same here😊
True diversity without the cringe or a lecture. Very natural. Such a great movie. I wish there was a sequel.
Except the white dad and black mom creating a Asian child. That was kinda weird and seemed forced
@@Boss-cj6zn Let's say he was adopted. 😊
@@Boss-cj6zn seemed forced... 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@Boss-cj6zn as a child watching this I didn't think twice. Funny how when we became adults things became "forced" and "lecture like" 🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@Boss-cj6zn With comments like these, who cares about Dr. Seuss
What always made me giggle about about this movie was a black woman and a white man had an Asian child. This movie was before its time.
I love how this movie was truly colorblind. And no one seemed to make a big fuss about it. My 7 year-old self thought nothing of it.
True I focused on how good the movie was and how great the performance was by the actors as a kid I didn't even notice or care
I was only confused trying to remember who was related to who, but I'm glad they casted based on ability instead of looks
actually Mr Montalban Is Filipino - American
Paolo was the LAST to audition?? Talk about saving the best for last 💓
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My favorite animated Disney Prince will always be Prince Adam (The Beast) but when it comes to the real ones, even with the current live action remakes & the future ones, Paolo is forever the only one for me 💙🤍💜
That man is truly a real-life Prince Charming.
Love Paolo!!!
Favorite Cinderella, so lucky to have grown up with this. I’ll never forget watching it for the first time the night it premiered.
I remember watching it with my foster mom, my foster sister when it premiered. They became my mom and sister 6 months later.
I used to teach musical theater... It was a thrill to introduce this to students.
I've always thought of this as my favorite version of Cinderella, even when I hadn't seen it for 12-15 years. After rewatching it recently, I can confirm it is still my favorite version of Cinderella. So lucky that I got to grow up with this version and so happy that I finally got to watch it again!
Loved this movie as a kid and still do. I didn’t notice skin color growing up and never questioned why a black mother and white father produced an Asian son. Then as I got older people pointed it out. I wish we could all see people from the same lense as I did as a child.
I never noticed it as a kid. I didn't even really notice it until a few weeks ago.
"I wish everyone would have a childlike perspective of the world". It's true, some people never grow up.
I simply loved this movie when I was younger. I watched it so many times...
I'm so glad this movie is getting the recognition it deserves, it's such a beautiful movie💗
Now we need Disney to cough up that soundtrack
Right!
They never did?! What are they thinking?!😱
@@andreasmeelie1889 They really didn’t do much for it, promotion or soundtrack wise. Whitney said it’s the one thing she regretted about Cinderella is the soundtrack.
it was brandy record label at the time disney and whitney want the soundtrack. But brandy label was afraid that people think she was doing broadway and not R&B anymore.
SPOTIFY DOESNT HAVE IT!! I have to listen to the original Broadway release and it’s not as good as the Whitney Houston version :/
I’m glad Whitney kept pushing for this. I’m also glad she stepped back from Cinderella. Her voice is amazing and the songs the Fairy Godmother sings were more suited to her talent. Love the diversity in this cast. He said it himself Love+Love=Love.
When Brandy and Whitney sing the last "It's possible," the moment is magical and their facial expressions just make you smile. It's beautiful.
So you're telling me Whoopi Goldberg helped bring us one of the best versions of Cinderella? Well I completely believe it! Go Queen!
Whitney produced.
Y’all slept on Brandy for far too long. This legend deserves her flowers
Slept? What?
Indeed they did and do! Lol
She was & never is slept on. My mom was a teenager in the 90’s she said Brandy was the shit in the 90’s Brandy had a Barbie, albums, tv show, first black Cinderella, Cover girl on magazines
@@tyliekinc. I grew up in the 90s too. I’m talking about now. Brandy does not get the recognition she deserves and hasn’t done for 20 damn years.
If we can get a black Cinderella,then there’s nothing wrong with Ariel being black in the live action Little Mermaid remake.
Exactly. It’s sad how this movie was celebrated because of different races playing traditionally white roles & over 20 years later there are people hating on another film doing the same thing.
There’s nothing wrong with Tinkerbell being black as well.
SAY THAT!!!
If we can have a black Cinderella we can have a black Aurora. You cant tell me otherwise
As long as they give her red hair, I'll be happy. I'll especially be happy if they do what this movie did and just throw race out the window and have it be 100% color-blind. I want her sisters to be Asian, Hispanic, white, black, and all that jazz.
Absolutely love this version of Cinderella, it makes me feel good to see so many of my favorite actors, actresses, and singing artists in one great production and movie. Such a amalgam of talent!!!
This was beyond groundbreaking at the time, but it eventually became LEGENDARY...aside from a multiracial cast. Brandy personified Cinderella for many young girls in 1997 and possibly generations to come. 💗 I still remember this version being my fave!!!
Just noticed that Tiana's silhouette looks like Brandy's in this version of Cinderella. Coincidence?
Absolute favorite Cinderella 😭 still have the VHS. I just can’t get rid of it.
I still have it as well.
I saw it once as a kid and it stuck with me. When I was in middle school my awesome older sister hunted it down and got me the DVD :)
I still have mine as well!
I still have mine as well.❤
The fact that Whitney Houston suggested Brandy play Cinderella makes me think she ironically became her
fairy godmother irl.
This was my favorite Cinderella as a kid.
I remember saying to my parents she's my favorite and they asked why.
I said, she isn't cartoon like all princesses! she is a real princess!!!
She was the first Cinderella I saw as a toddler and funny thing is when I looked at the original Walt Disney version I thought it was a cheap knockoff.
Ever After was my favorite version of Cinderella just because of the story, but this Cinderella will always be my favorite Disney movie. My VCR destroyed mine, but I was thrilled to find it on RUclips several years back. The songs the costumes and the humor were spot on. My favorite scene was the waltz Cinderella and Prince Charming did while singing 10 minutes ago. It felt like I was waltzing, too. As an 8-year-old, this movie was magical. As a Black girl, this movie was iconic. I had 2 Brandy Cinderella Dolls. I kept one in the box, and I played with the other daily. I lost both of them in a tornadoe. Now I want to search EBay for her doll and Whitney's too.
Whoopi can sing... Sister Act!
I was 15 years old when this was shown on TV. I love the experience and the creativity....and the moment I saw Whitney Houston, man, I'm sold!
I've seen many versions of this story from musicals to movies to operas and plays. This is my favorite version of the classic fairy-tale. The main reason is because of the casting... where an African-American girl sitting at her television set in 1997 to see someone like her on the screen, allowed her to dream and believe that anything is possible. I believed that my biggest and wildest dreams were possible. With that in my mind and heart, I knew I could do anything. It's possible!
Ive loved this film since I was 5, when it first aired on the wonderful world of disney!!! My favorite Cinderella next to ever after. Whoopi is right, this was Hamilton before Hamilton. And the crazy thing is, here I am at 29, introducing this to my almost 2 year old daughter. This movie is timeless and truly has a legacy.
This version was literally the best ever made. Period.
I was 30 when this came out, but I was just as excited as my little girl was to see it!!
Love this version!!
I was 7 my my mom was In her 30s she loves singing the parts
I was 7 my mom was in her 30’s too!
@@toastEDmrshmello09
Yes! My daughter turn 7 that year too.☺️
To be hand picked by your idol to be the lead in a movie that said idol really wanted made has to best thing that can ever happen to anyone.
One of best Cinderella adaptation , everything was great from the songs to costumes and dancing sequences .All actors were good in both acting and singing , and almost all deserved to have even bigger carriers.
I watched this movie so many times when I was a kid. Hearing these clips reminds me how much I liked the music.
I first watched this on accident. I wanted my parents to rent cartoon cinderella for me but they grabbed the wrong one. I was disappointed but gave it a shot and I am so glad I watched it. It is a favorite. So good.
As much I’d like to see Whitney as Cinderella, she was more phenomenal as the fairy godmother!!!👏🏼👏🏿👏🏾👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿👏🏽
She knew that!!!
This movie meant SO much to me as a kid. I was a 9-10 year old kid who being a child of colour (I am spanish/south american) where everything in 90's australian media was very white centric but also disney was HUGE during this (outside of some rare circumstances). But seeing a dark skinned cinderella who was a princess was incredible. I finally felt included for once.
This is my favorite Version of the Cinderella movie. I had forgotten that Victor Garner was in Titanic. His favorite roles of mine are his role in Cinderella & Daddy Warbucks in Annie.
Love that version of Annie!
My 3rd favorite is on Alias.
This film is amazing and doesn't get enough credit
I love Queen Constantina’s little squeaks as she tried to manipulate her son to agree to go to the ball. It was hilarious. 😂
Whoopi was one of the highlights of the movie. And you just named one reason
I love this version of Cinderella, it's so amazing
Since MsMojo talked about Brandy, any chance we can get MsMojo to do a Top 10 Brandy Songs
Loved this film since I was 5. Rodgers and Hammerstein are such an iconic music duo.
This movie introduced me to their music!
i can't help but feel that Bernadette Peters could've been in Titanic as well.
And what would have happened to when Kathy Bates played Miss Hannigan in Annie?
Brandy role has helped execs and others make the argument against others today for actresses such as Halle to play Ariel by being able to reference it as being done before and loved and a classic when done tastefully and respectfully
I used to love watching this movie when ABC showed Disney movies.
I miss when Wonderful World Of Disney wasn’t just about showing theatrical blockbusters
Absolutely love this version of Cinderella. Brandy and Whitney Houston were incredible in it. Also, I love the song for the Stepmother, it actually adds some depth to her character without having to add more detail to the storyline. The Whole cast was amazing and brilliant!
An ASIAN (handsome) male lead: this film was ahead of its time in many ways
Not afraid to admit that I was completely in love with Brandy as a little girl. 😍💕
I loved this version growing up!!! I must have watched it 100 times. Lol 😂
I remember watching this with my parents when it premiered. Think I might have to get out my DVD of it and give it a watch because its been a long time!
I love all Cinderella movies, I grew up watching all of them.
as a young white child, i’m very glad my parents had me growing up with this cinderella. brandy and whitney were wonderful and this will forever be my favorite cinderella.
I'm sorry.... I love almost every version....
But this one takes the cake... And I LOVE me some drew but this one is literal magic
I love this movie! I get the goosebumps when they start to sing. So happy that it's on Disney+. I haven't watch it in a long time, but I'm pretty sure that Disney has brushed it up made it full HD for Disney+. Can't wait to see all the details
This is the Cinderella I grew up watching!
Brandy was in a TV show called Thea before she started singing, so Cinderella was not her first acting role.
Yes
She was playing moesha while doing this movie.
This was too good for this sinful world, and I am so glad we got it. Watching it at 28, it holds the same magic that it did at 5...I just understand it deeper and it continues to speak to me over and over again *sets queue on Disney+*
Same. Those of us who experienced this film as a 90s kid were truly blessed. At 29 I still am in love with this film and it still is so timeless. The magic and the music lives on. It truly has a legacy. I think I have an even deeper appreciation for this film than I did when I was 5. I'm now introducing it to my 2 year old daughter.
I’m 31 and recently rewatched to get ready for the new Descendants
This is my favorite version of Cinderella, and I think it always will be. As much as Whitney wanted to be Cinderella, she makes the perfect godmother. Cinderella has a meek and demure personality, and Whitney was the strong, powerful woman with a strong, powerful voice that turned the fairy godmother from a fairly forgettable role, into the pillar of Cinderella's confidence. Who wouldn't feel like they could take on a royal ball after a real pep talk in song form from the great Whitney Houston???
I love the diversity in the movie. It’s a childhood movie to me. Whitney is queen 👑
love this movie! Rest in Power Natalie Desselle & Whitney Houston!!
Miss Whitney Houston was Absolutely beautiful inside and out
The great Whitney Houston said on CNN that she grew up wanting to be Julie Andrews. the wonderful Julie who was the original Cinderella. A few years later Whitney became executive producer to The Princess Diaries and finally worked with Julie! That"s fantastic.
I’m 31 and it took me almost 20 years to sit through the entirety of Princess Diaries.
Hands down, this is my favorite version of Cinderella OF ALL TIME! I can quote EVERY WORD! 🎶
this is and always will be my favorite version of Cinderella! Brandy was the best!
Yep
On another note on the massive budget, one of the sets, most likely Cinderella's stepmother's house, was one of the same soundstages that were used for _The Wizard of Oz._
Critics like to hear themselves talk and love what they write. I'm 60 and loved the version with Leslie-Anne but this version is my favorite.
I’m 31 but prefer the original as Julie Andrews. I still accept this version as my generation
I loved this version growing up!!!
My favorite Cinderella movie is Ever After but this one is still in my top 5.😁
I have loved & rewatched this movie since I was a kid!!!👸🏾🤩
The MoMusu production of R&H's Cinderella is one of my faves (weird step-sister song placement not withstanding) but I will always always ALWAYS have a soft spot in my heart for this version. I watched it air live for the first time when it came out when I was a kid and it was just so magical! Though I still joked about how in the 90s everyone kept trying to make Whoopie Goldberg sing. XD
This was my favorite Cinderella growing up. When it finally came on Disney+ I felt like a little kid again, twirling around in her living room while the fairy godmother gave her opening speech
I was delighted to know they had a black Cinderella, so Tiana technically isn't the first black Disney princess, the first ANIMATED black princess, but still. The diversity is great.
I would take Cinderella over Princess And The Frog any day
I wish Disney would have released a soundtrack to this. The music is magical asf ❤
I was 5 when this movie came out. I was in foster care and I was going to be adopted six months later. My adoptive family was white. Watching this movie for the first time make me realize that I could be any Disney princess regardless of my skin color. I still love this movie. I watched the first day it was released on Disney Plus.
🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I absolutely love, love, LOVE this movie!
I loved this movie as a little girl!!!
Still to this day!!!
I love this movie!!!! Ever After a Cinderella story and this version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella are my favorite versions of Cinderella. Beautifully well done ❤️❤️❤️❤️
So good!
This is my all time favorite movie ever.
I wonder if they'll do a cinema version of this. I hope not because this is priceless
I wouldn’t oppose as long as they follow the script from the more recent Broadway version
Damn my prince charming still fine 9:45
Yes! He has aged like wine 🍷🥰
Rodgers and Hammerstein 1997 Cinderella and Ever After 😍😍 both hands down are the best Cinderella adaptations out there.
One of my favorite movies ever. It makes me smile every time.
I NEED this soundtrack to be released! Sadly that might not happen!
Something else that could be added to #5 - Some Lyrics Were Changed to Represent Brandy's Skin Color - In the original 1957 version with Julie Andrews and in the 1965 version with Leslie Ann Warren, there's a lyric in "In My Own Little Corner" which was changed in the 1997 version. The original lyrics are "I'm a slave from Calcutta, I'm a queen in Peru". In Whitney Houston's Cinderella, the lyrics were changed to "I'm a thief in Calcutta, I'm a queen in Peru". The fact that Brandy was black... and singing lyrics where she was fantasizing about being a slave just wouldn't fly... so they changed the word "slave" to "thief". The word might have been changed in 1997 anyhow even if Cinderella was being played by a white actress, however, the fact that Brandy was black made changing that one word all the more compelling.
This is my favorite version because I just love the diversity! They need to do more movies like this and I remember watching this at age 8 and I loved it ever since! 👸🏾💖😎🥰😘
This is my favorite version of Cinderella! Been watching it since I was little!
I think this was a much better adaptation than the classic 1950 animated film. With the music, although "Bibbity Bobbity Boo" and "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" are classics, this is Rodgers and Hammerstein. With the story, we actually get to know the prince. He's not some mystery that we don't see until the ball. We get a lot more character introduction and development. The 1950 film has a lot of emphasis on the cat and mouse chases. Acting-wise, it's about even. Bernadette Peters has a more comical approach as the stepmother, while Eleanor Audley is more vicious and menacing. Ilene Woods and Brandy both do a fabulous job as Cinderella. Verna Felton and Whitney Houston are both great as the fairy godmother.
I actually feel the opposite. This is the Cinderella of my generation. But my heart belongs to the 1950 animated version
This movie always makes me teary eyed!
I noticed the multiracial cast when I was little and I loved it then as much I love it now. And I loved brandy and her singing and she’s so pretty and this is the Cinderella film with best fairy godmother ever. (And no one can convince me otherwise) I had a crush on the prince and whoopi had me laughing all the time. I always remembered the king as “the guy from the big boat movie “ when I was younger lol.
This movie made me a fan of Peters. Her voice is amazing and I loved how she played her character.
Fans: Praised Brandy for being Cinderella
Also Fans: Criticize Halle Bailey and Rachel Zegler for playing Snow White and Ariel
I love all of the songs! Brandy was epic!
YES my favorite Cinderella what would I do without disney plus or ms mojo
Brandy was not the first black Cinderella, she's technically the fifth. The first black Cinderella was Cleo Lane, followed by Charlayne Woodward, Jennifer Beals and Della Miles.
This movie shows how colorblind my child self was. As a kid, I legit thought that Black Mom + White Dad = Asian son
But all jokes aside, I love how race was never an issue in the movie (aside from the lyrical changes in the Stepsisters' Laments) and the natural harmony it showed was amazing
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella was never on Broadway until 2013 when Laura Osnes got the role. Julie Andrews played her in the musical they wrote for her to be a tv movie in 1957. And Brandy wasn't just known for her music she also was doing Moesha
Mr. Paolo Montalban is So Handsome and Very Talented
This is my favorite movie, so happy it is finally getting its recognition!
I still remember watching this for the first time on the Wonderful World of Disney - I was obsessed with the soundtrack for this from the Julia Andrews version so I was thrilled to have a more modern version. -- K
It took me a long time after this version to discover Julie Andrews OG version