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Cinderella Meets Fella
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Directed byFred Avery
Story byTed Pierce
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Bernice Hansen
Danny Webb
Elvia Allman
Fred Avery
Ted Pierce
Paul Taylor Choristers[1]
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byVirgil Ross
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • July 23, 1938 (1938-07-23)
Running time
8 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Cinderella Meets Fella is a 1938 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery. It is a parody of the fairy tale Cinderella.[2] The short was released on July 23, 1938. It is part of the Merrie Melodies series and the third cartoon to feature Elmer Fudd.[3][4]

Plot

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The audience is invited to the story's ball dance and humorously encouraged to buy cheeseburgers from a nearby restaurant. Cinderella is forced to clean the house while her older sisters go to the ball. Noticing her fairy godmother to have not arrived on time, she calls the police, who find her drinking elsewhere and throw her into Cinderella's house. She immediately dresses up Cinderella in a fancy dress to her pleasure. She uses a canned pumpkin and rats summoned from a wall-mounted slot machine to attempt turning them into a horse and carriage, but turns them into Santa Claus and his reindeer by accident, then into a Wild West-style carriage that both deem satisfactory.

Cinderella arrives at the ball to everyone's applause, followed by Prince Charming, who is revealed to be Elmer Fudd. Cinderella embraces him as the duo dance, with Elmer unknowingly walking up a table before they go to a balcony where they kiss. At midnight after the cuckoo clock tries to disrupt the story by delaying it, Cinderella returns home and purposely drops a glass slipper to do the story justice. Elmer then spends the night finding Cinderella's house, which is illuminated with neon lights, and finds Cinderella to have "grown tired of waiting" and is watching a film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures in a cinema, which happens to be this cartoon. She enters the film from the audience and goes to the back of the theatre with Elmer.

Reception

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Animation historian Greg Ford writes, "Cinderella certifies Avery's standing as a modernist in its distanced refurbishing of the hoary old Cinderella narrative."[5]

Home media

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The film is available on the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 Blu-ray.[6]

Voice cast

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References

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  1. ↑ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-1970. BearManor Media. p. 30. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
  2. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 74. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 77-79. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ Parten, James (March 31, 2020). "Merrie Melodies 1937-38: More Old Friends". Cartoon Research. Archived from the original on July 4, 2026. Retrieved July 6, 2026.
  5. ↑ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.
  6. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 Blu-ray". www.blu-ray.com. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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