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Released December 01, 1960
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Paramount
91 min. (Feature Film)

Joe Besser is not credited, but he worked with Frank Tashlin on the screenplay as gag contributor.

Adaptation of the Cinderella fable. Jerry Lewis plays Fella, living in the Bel-Air mansion left to his stepmother (Dame Judith Anderson) by his father. Treated as a servant by his stepmother and her two playboy sons Rupert and Maximilian, the bumbling and simple-minded Fella lives a harsh life. The stepfamily suspects that Fella's father left him a secret fortune, hidden somewhere on the estate, the only reason they don't throw him out. Fella's fairy godfather (Ed Wynn) comes to his aid when the visiting Princess Charmaine comes to America in search of a husband. Rupert and Maximilian are determined to wed her money, but the Fairy convinces Fella that he has the stuff to win her heart, turning him into a polished gentleman for an appearance at the Princess' society ball. Of course Midnight comes early, but love wins out when Charmaine comes looking for Fella, with the patent leather loafer he lost the night before.

The Bel-Air mansion used in CINDERFELLA became a television icon two years later, as the Clampett mansion on THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.

Jerry commissioned Norman Rockwell to do the film's promotional art.

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CINDERFELLA on IMDb

Ed Wynn
Fairy Godfather

Anna Maria Alberghetti
Princess Charmaine

Henry Silva
Maximilian

Stephen Hammer
Maximilian, as a boy

Richard Klein
Rupert, as a boy

Del Moore
Radio announcer

Ann Dore
Lady-in-waiting

Nola Thorp
Cinderella

Joe Williams
Vocalist

Norman Leavitt
Golden chauffeur

Brad Brown
Ball guest

George Holmes
Ball guest

Boyd Cabeen
Ball guest

Kathie Browne
scene deleted

Hal Bell
stunt double, Jerry Lewis

Barry Gordon
Fella as a boy, scene deleted

Alan Reed
Fella's father, scene deleted

Milton Frome
Butler, scene deleted

Unidentified CINDERFELLA 2
Greeting committee


Jerry Lewis
Producer

Ernest D. Glucksman
Associate Producer

Frank Tashlin
Screenplay

Joe Besser
Screenplay

Haskell B. Boggs
Director of Photography

Henry Bumstead
Art Director

Hal Pereira
Art Director

Sam Comer
Set Decoration

Robert R. Benton
Set Decoration

Gene Merritt
Sound Recording

Charles Grenzbach
Sound Recording

Walter Scharf
Musical Score

Nick Castle
Choreographer

Edith Head
Costume Design

Sy Devore
Wardrobe

Nat Wise
Wardrobe

Ruth Stella
Wardrobe

Nellie Manley
Hair Stylist

C. C. Coleman
Assistant Director

William Davidson
Production Manager

Jack Mintz
Assistant Producer

James Knott
Camera Operator

James Grant
Assistant Cameraman

Betty J. Lane
Assistant Film Editor

John P. Fulton
Photographic Effects

Farciot Edouart
Process Photography

Joe Schuster
Electrical

Mickey Finn
Technical Advisor

Richard Mueller
Technicolor Consultant

Marvin Weldon
Script Supervisor

Jack Mintz
Dialogue Director

Mal Bulloch
Still Photography


















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