Cinderella Jones is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Busby Berkeley and written by Charles Hoffman. The film stars Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, William Prince, S. Z. Sakall, and Edward Everett Horton. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 9, 1946.
Plot
Struggling singer Judy Jones (Leslie) discovers she's entitled to a multimillion-dollar fortune, as long as she can live up to the terms of her late uncle's will. To collect her inheritance, Jones must marry an intellectual genius. Jones ditches her boyfriend, bandleader Tommy Coles (Alda), and matriculates at an elite university for the super-intelligent. On campus, Jones struggles to win the heart of a dashing professor, Bartholomew Williams (Prince).
Cast
Joan Leslie as Judy Jones
Robert Alda as Tommy Coles
Julie Bishop as Camille
William Prince as Bart Williams
S. Z. Sakall as Gabriel Popik
Edward Everett Horton as Keating
Charles Dingle as Minland
Ruth Donnelly as Cora Elliot
Elisha Cook, Jr. as Oliver S. Patch
Hobart Cavanaugh as George
Charles Arnt as Mahoney
Chester Clute as Krencher
Edward Gargan as Riley
Margaret Early as Bashful Girl
Johnny Mitchell as Soldier
Mary Dean as Singer
Monte Blue as Jailer
Marianne O'Brien as Marie
Marion Martin as Burlesque Queen
Reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said, "If you can imagine a combination of a Nineteen Thirties "college musical" and a second-rate silent slapstick shot completely "off the cuff," then you can picture in your mind's eye the Warners' Cinderella Jones, a little package of fluff and painful cut-ups which came to the Strand yesterday. And we trust that you can so imagine, for it would be very difficult indeed to convey a more accurate impression of this nonsensical and amateurish film."