Ella Cinders (1926)
A COMEDY ON THE MOVIES WITH THE IRREPRESSIBLE COLEEN MOORE!
Genre : Romance, Comedy
Runtime : 52M
Director : Alfred E. Green
Synopsis
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 discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
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