Amateur movie with Big budget

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Originally made as competition for the annual airing of "The Wizard of Oz" and R&H's only made-for TV musical. Walter Pigeon, as usual, gives a very wooden portrayal as the King. Leslie Ann Warren is beautiful but has a weak singing voice. Appears to be in soft focus for some reason. Simple, stylized sets on a white-floored stage, like the 1960 NBC version of Peter Pan. It's pretty good, and my wife fondly remembers watching this in colorful black and white in 1965! (It is in color) For a much livelier and funnier version, watch the 1997 Disney version which has a diversified cast and gorgeous sets. " Cinderella" was a recent hit as a Broadway Revival.

I love this movie! I wish they still showed it on TV like they do The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, and other movies like Gone With the Wind. I love all of the actors in this movie. I love Stuart Damon and Leslie Ann singing together. I thought he was my prince. This is one of the movies that takes me back to my childhood. I still remember all of the songs! I wish that they would sing together again on a show or have a show where they sing all of the songs from the movie. After they get through singing the songs they need to show the old movie again. Most children today don't know what a good movie is or what good music is. I hope they will show this on Hallmark!

When this came out on TV I was a nine-year-old girl in Philadelphia, and I thought it was the most romantic thing in the world.Today I'm a divorced, 56-year-old mother of two, and a psychologist, and I still feel basically the same way!For me, Stuart Damon as the prince epitomizes the ultimate in romance. He's handsome and suave but so much more -- smart, kind and gentle, perceptive, appreciative, and affectionate.Leslie Ann Warren, making a stunning debut at 19, is perfect as Cinderella -- overworked, poorly washed, and seriously in need of assertiveness training.I will always love the lesson of her deus-ex-machina fairy godmother, played lovingly by Celeste Holm: "Impossible things are happening every day." Who among us can't benefit from this gentle reminder? The Rodgers and Hammerstein score in this film is delightful and every performance soars. I enjoyed the elegant courtesies of Ginger Rogers and Walter Pidgeon as the queen and king.This production will always reign in my psyche. However the multicultural remake that came out several years ago, with Brandi as Cinderella and Whitney Houston wielding the wand, is also well worth viewing for its tuneful exuberance and wit.

Well actually, we'll never know if Hammerstein would have approved of the wholesale redo of his lyrics since he had died (maybe so since it was so beautiful, but maybe not since his lyrics crafter the initial farce, who knows?), so perhaps it should more accurately be called the Rodgers Cinderella. Every positive thing said about this gem is true and the negatives negligible, but I wanted to mention a couple of things I've not seen noticed (sorry if they were and I didn't see them): 1. If you know about the near-fairy tale bio of Stuart Damon, the biggest reason he was so successful and believable as the Prince is that he wasn't acting but being himself, his own wife of ~50 years having been his own true love at first sight like the Prince! 2. Another unsung hero I was sad to see seemed to have gone strangely unnoticed (http://www.IMDb.com/name/nm0374736/) in a non-exhaustive web search is Don Heitgerd, the great herald of "The Prince is giving a ball" with his wonderfully rich baritone voice, who doesn't seem to have gotten further deserved recognition, though hopefully his delightful vocal talents received many audiences unknown to IMDb.com.Though it's not nearly as good as the actual show due to it being so canned and regrettably editing a number of the lines in a way for which I didn't care, a still beautiful "original cast recording" can be heard at http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/music/cinderella-1965 I'm so glad Rodgers ditched the regrettable farcical nature of the 1957 version & the even far worse 1997 reversion that proves that even Disney's multiple millions years after Rodgers death couldn't even begin to make up for the loss of his genius. As much as I love Julie Andrews (1957 star), the distasteful nature of the farcical quality and the bizarre handling of the traditional story ruined it so much that the masterful 1965 cleansing revision was an indescribably wonderful radical beautification far eclipsing the 1957 original, an unusual occurrence. I usually dislike remakes, e.g. my hatred of the 1997 reversion, but the 1965 is a glorious exception.