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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.

Based on the comic strip of the same name that was published in the Los Angeles Times (and syndicated throughout the US through Metropolitan Services) from Monday, June 1, 1925, until the early 1960s. The creators of Ella Cinders were Los Angeles Times Art Department staff members Charles Plumb and William M. Conselman.

First National bought the film rights from co-creators Charles Plumb and William M. Conselman in late January of 1926.

Had its Los Angeles premiere on Friday, July 2, 1926, two days before America turned 150 years old. This was the second Colleen Moore film of 1926; it has become the most famous film of her career.

The eye exercise scene was done by cutting a piece of black paper and taping one-half of the camera to it, so that one eye could be filmed making eye movements; the paper was then moved to the other half of the camera to film the other eye making its movements, so that the end result was both eyes going at different directions all at once.

Colleen Moore recalled that Frank Capra directed the cameo scene with Harry Langdon.

Following the successful mid-1948 telecasts of Othello (1922) and _'The Eagle (1925)_, New York City's WJZ (Channel 7), began a series of silent film feature presentations, shown more or less in their entirety, which aired intermittently for the next 12 months. This feature was initially broadcast Tuesday 27 September 1949.

ELLA CINDERS had its world premiere in Buffalo, New York at Shea's Buffalo Theatre, on 31 May 1926. (Buffalo Evening News, 28 May 1926)

Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.