Yeh-Shen by Ai-Lung Louie is a Chinese version of Cinderella. The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin comes from Algonquin Indian folklore. Adelita by Tomie dePaola is a Mexican Cinderella story. Prince Cinders by Babette Cole is a version with male characters for the lead roles.
The tale is called "Aschenputtel" or "Ashputtle" or "Ashputtel" [“The Little Ash Girl”] or "Cinderella" in English translations). This version is much more violent than that of Charles Perrault and Disney, in that Cinderella's father has not died and the two stepsisters mutilate their feet to fit in the golden slipper.
Cinderella is an English translation of French, Italian, and German nicknames that mean the same — girl of the ashes. This fairy tale exists in many traditions. In French, her name is Cendrillon. In Italian, it is Cenerentola.
Cinderella is a 2021 romantic musical film based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault. Written and directed by Kay Cannon, it stars singer Camila Cabello as the title character in her acting debut, alongside Nicholas Galitzine, Idina Menzel, Minnie Driver, Billy Porter and Pierce Brosnan.
Scholars disagree as to exactly how many versions of the popular tale exist, with numbers ranging from 340 to over 3,000 versions, including picture books and musical interpretations. Although the story doesn't have a singular author, there are several notable interpreters.
The Brothers Gimm wrote the German version of the story in 1812. In ''Aschenputtel,'' Cinderella is treated terribly by her stepmother and stepsisters in a German village. She plants a tree branch over her mother's grave and waters it with her tears. The branch becomes a huge tree.
The film stars Selena Gomez, Drew Seeley, and Jane Lynch. It is a sequel to A Cinderella Story (2004) and the second installment in the A Cinderella Story series.
Walt Disney's Cinderella is the timeless movie that has inspired countless young girls and became a pop culture icon. With its memorable music, the beloved little mice helping Cinderella, the wicked stepmother, and the one and only glass slipper, it has delighted several generations.
Cendrillon (Cinderella) is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale.
So- yes, you can name your daughter Cinderella, at least in the USA. However, be aware that the name has connotations. The story of Cinder-Ella is actually about a girl named Ella whose wicked stepmother makes her do all of the hard work.
Fortunately, fans will be pleased to know this isn't a new adaptation of the classic story. Rather, the Walt Disney Studios Restoration and Preservation Team has painstakingly restored the original 1950 animated film in 4K. Now fans can experience the movie with better visual clarity than ever before.
Yeh-Hsien (also spelled “Yeh-Shen”), an ancient Chinese Cinderella first published in the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), exemplifies the first type of Cinderella tale. The protagonist's mother dies and her father remarries two wives, one of whom also dies and returns as a fish that comforts Yeh-Hsien.
In this version, Cinderella is called Cinduri. Cinduri is forced to be a maid for her stepmother and stepsister but she longs for something more. She gets her wish from a snake, which she calls her godfather. The symbolism of a snake is very auspicious in the Indian culture.
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is a 2007 American animated musical fantasy film produced by DisneyToon Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
In some stories, Cinderella's real name was Ella, and because she would always lie in cinders, her stepfamily would call her Cinderella. However, in the Disney film, "Cinderella" is truly her name by birth.
Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale of the same title, it was directed by Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi.
The earliest recorded tales is by Strabo a Greek who recorded the story of Rhodopis between 7 BCE and 23 CE. She was a young Greek courtesan who attracted the attention of the Pharaoh when an eagle flew off with her sandal and dropped it in his lap.
Trivia. Since this is a continuation of the first movie, this movie has to take place before Cinderella II: Dreams Come True because Anastasia lived happily ever after in that one.
In the Grimm Brothers' version of Cinderella, she had a hazel bush where a white dove makes any of Cinderella's wishes come true. She leaves behind a small golden slipper at the ball and her two stepsisters try cutting off a toe or a heel to fit into the small shoe.
There she took on the name Zenshin-ni or the Dharma name Honyo (法如). She has become a folk heroine, the subject of numerous Japanese folktales which celebrate her filial piety. She is sometimes called the Japanese Cinderella.
What are the differences between the two versions of Cinderella?
The three main differences are, the father died in disney's version but did not die in Gimms version, there was no fairy godmother in Grimm's version but there was in Disney's, and in the original version the stepsisters cut their heels and toes off so it would fit in the slipper but in the Disney version they did not.
