Cinderella (DVD) 1957 “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA” Approx. 77 min (for the feature – plus all of the extras), Black and white/color, shown in original aspect ratio. (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Starring: Julie Andrews, Ilka Chase, Edie Adams, Howard Lindsay, Dorothy Stickney, Kay Ballard, Alice Ghostley and Jon Cypher. Music by Richard Rodgers. Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Directed by Ralph Nelson. Julie Andrews' performance in the title role of the original 1957 television production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is now available to the public on DVD. Cinderella was created as a Broadway-style television production with an original score from the creators of "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel", featuring such songs as "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible," "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful," and "Stepsisters' Lament." Cast in the title role was the 21-year-old Andrews, at the time starring on Broadway in "My Fair Lady" (another Cinderella story of sorts), and the cast was filled out by a group of the most talented Broadway stage veterans (including Kaye Ballard, Edie Adams, Dorothy Stickney, and Stickney's husband, writer Howard Lindsay). On March 31, 1957, a then-record 120 million homes saw the program as it was broadcast, live and in color, but it was preserved only in black-and-white kinescope. Fortunately, the DVD has received the attention it deserves, with a new introduction by Julie Andrews, a 20-minute featurette about the production, including: interviews with many of the principals, Rodgers and Hammerstein's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show a week before the broadcast, and a gallery of photos.
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