Ella Cinders (1926) | Directed by Alfred E. Green - Full Movie

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Ella Cinders is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Colleen Moore, produced by her husband John McCormick, and featuring Moore's recurring co-star (five films in three years), Lloyd Hughes. The film is based on the syndicated comic strip of the same name by William M. Conselman and Charles Plumb, which in turn was based upon the millennia-old folk tale of Cinderella.

In 2013, Ella Cinders was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant

Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Written by: Frank Griffin (scenario), Mervyn LeRoy (scenario), George, Marion Jr. (titles)
Story by: Frank Griffin, Mervyn LeRoy
Based on Ella Cinders by William M. Conselman and Charles Plumb
Produced by: John McCormick
Starring: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes
Cinematography: Arthur Martinelli
Edited by: Robert Kern
Production company: John McCormick Productions
Distributed by: First National Pictures
Release date: June 6, 1926
Running time: 75 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: Silent, English intertitles