Cinderella is the second Disney Princess, joining the franchise in 1950, after Snow White in 1937.
Cinderella is the first Disney Princess to be seen as a little girl, before Tiana in 2009 and Rapunzel in 2010.
Cinderella's hair color has often been the subject of debate among fans. In the original film, Cinderella's hair seems to be of a light orange tone, classifying her as either a redhead or a ginger as her hair had been officially called 'burnt orange'. In the franchise and in the Disney parks.
Cinderella's hair is publicized as bright yellow, making her a golden-blonde, although her hair remained orange-ish in the original film and the second sequel. The most common consensus is that she is a strawberry-blonde, which is blonde hair bearing a reddish tint.
Cinderella is the first out of the four Disney Princesses not to be of royal blood, paving the way for Belle in 1991, Mulan in 1998 and Tiana in 2009.
Cinderella is the most popular Disney Princess among children.
Cinderella is the only Disney Princess to wear a normal servant attire inside her castle. The other princesses wear royal princess gowns inside their kingdoms.
Cinderella is derived from the French word Cendrillon, which translates in English as "little ash girl".
.The only mention of Cinderella's mother was in the first movie when she showed the mice a dress that belonged to her that she was planning to fix up for the ball.
.Cinderella, being at 19 is the oldest Disney Princess. She is followed by Tiana, being the second oldest.
A song called “Dancing on a Cloud” was cut from the movie.
Mike Douglas, as in The Mike Douglas Show, was Prince Charming’s singing voice. The speaking voice, however, was provided by actor William Phipps.
Disney Imagineers have used forced perspective on Cinderella Castle, as well as other attractions in the Walt Disney World resort, to make it look larger than it really is. The windows and blocks appear to on the upper level are actually made smaller than those on the lower levels. These details are used to trick the eye into seeing the upper levels as much higher than they really are.
The height of the Cinderella Castle has been kept to just under 200-feet high. Any building that is 200-feet tall in Florida must mount a blinking red light on the top to warn aircraft. To avoid detracting from the elegance of the Castle, Walt Disney wanted the Castle to reach just below that mark.
If you take the path through the Castle you will see five mosaic murals depicting the story of Cinderella. It was designed by an Imagineer named Dorothea Redmond. There was a team assisting a mosaic artist named Hanns-Joachim Scharff. With 300,000 mosaic pieces, in an array of materials and a 500-color palette, the team completed these five panels in just 22 months. Some of the tiles contain actual sterling silver and 14K gold. Notice the colors of the faces on the evil step-sisters as Cinderella tries on the glass slipper.
Does it bother anyone that the roman numerals on the clock on Cinderella Castles’ front is represented by “IIII” rather than “IV”? This representation is also used on the clock on the front of the American Adventure in Epcot. Check the clock along the sidewalk on Main Street and the one at the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, they both say “IIII”. Both symbols are correct as the “IV” symbol was not used until after the Colonial period. The Disney Imagineers carried this through the Cinderella film, which shows the same “IIII” representation. Interestingly, the clock depicted in Stained Glass in the Castle Suite, shows four as “IV”.
