Put it together and what have you got?
Bibiti-bobiti-boo!
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Fact #2371
Cinderella is the second Disney Princess, joining the franchise in 1950, after Snow White in 1937.
Fact #2372
Cinderella is considered the "leader" of the Disney Princesses, often being positioned in the center of publicity photos. This has been subject to some controversy, however, because she is the second Disney Princess, after Snow White. Some feel that Snow White deserves to be the leader, because she is the main protagonist of Disney's first film, and was introduced to the world 13 years before Cinderella.
Fact #2373
In the original French story, Cinderella got her name when her face was covered with ashes and cinders. Possibly, in the original film, Cinderella got her name by birth, since her face is never seen covered with dirt. Cinder-clod was the actual name given in the French story, with the youngest stepsister being not so spiteful gave the name Cinderella.
Fact #2374
Cinderella made a brief cameo in the short starring Goofy, The Art of Vacationing, located in Walt Disney World. As Goofy attempted to have a "meet-and-greet" session with her, he quickly turned around in shyness.
Fact #2375
Cinderella is the first Disney Princess to share a duet with her respective love interest. The second would be Princess Jasmine when she sang A Whole New World with Aladdin.
Fact #2376
Cinderella is the first Disney Princess to have her named be used as a song title.
Fact #2377
She's the first Disney Princess to marry into a royal family instead of inheriting the throne.
Fact #2378
She also makes a cameo apperance in Teacher's Pet and Mickey's April Fools.
Fact #2379
Cinderella, as well as Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, and Anita in 101 Dalmatians are modeled after Helene Stanley.
Fact #2380
Lily James, who plays Downtown Abbey's resident flapper girl, is starring as the princess in the live action reboot coming out this year.
Fact #2381
A song called “Dancing on a Cloud” was cut from the movie.
Fact #2382
Cinderella herself, Ilene Woods, revealed in an interview that Walt Disney was probably the first person to use double tracked vocals, where the singer records herself singing both the melody and the harmonies.
Fact #2383
Excluding the initial prologue explaining how the stepmother came into Cinderella's life and the closing wedding scene, the main story of the film takes place over approximately a 24-hour period. Cinderella starts her day with her chores, the prince's ball is that evening and she successfully tries on the lost slipper the following morning.
Fact #2384
Ilene Woods beat exactly 309 girls for the part of Cinderella, after some demo recordings of her singing a few of the film's songs were presented to Walt Disney. However, she had no idea she was auditioning for the part until Disney contacted her.
Fact #2385
To save money when animating the pumpkin coach, the animators drew the coach to seemingly float on air so that they would not have to animate the turning wheels or the filigrees.
Fact #2386
Lucifer was modeled after animator Ward Kimball's cat. Animators were having trouble coming up with a good design for that cat, but once Walt Disney saw Kimball's furry calico, he declared, "There's your Lucifer."
Fact #2387
The carriage that Cinderella and the Prince take after the wedding has an emblem of a sword and two hidden Mickey Mouse heads around it.
Fact #2388
Gus' full name is Octavius, presumably after the private name of the Roman Emperor Augustus. Gus can be short for either Gustavus or Augustus.
Fact #2389
The 3 women the Prince meets at the royal ball are named, "Princess Frederica Janie De la Fontain", "Mademoiselle Augustina DuBois", and "Mademoiselle Lenora Mercedes De la Tour".
Fact #2390
In the movie, Cinderella's dress is white, but in promotional material, it's blue.
Fact #2391
The Cinderella theme may date back as early as the 1stcentury B.C.
Fact #2392
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.
Fact #2393
Cinderella is the Disney princess with the biggest number of animal companions, which conclude the mice, her dog Bruno, the birds, and horse Major.
Fact #2394
Cinderella is the first Disney Princess to share a dance with her love interest right after they met, the second would be Aurora with Prince Phillip.
Fact #2395
When Cinderella is washing the floor & Lucifer tracks dirt all over the floor, when they show the footprints, you can see that some of them are not footprints, but hidden Mickeys.
Fact #2396
When the stepmother locks Cinderella in her room, the key she uses has a Hidden Mickey formed by three circles on the "head" of the key.
Fact #2397
At the end of the movie when the mice are throwing the rice at Cinderella there are some circles under the balcony ledge which form a Hidden Mickey.
Fact #2398
Right after Cinderella leaves in her coach to attend the ball, there's a shot of the castle. Around the bottom of the castle you see four pillars and in between them is a large gap. Look above the gap and you'll see a large gold circle and two smaller circles connecting to it creating a hidden Mickey.
Fact #2399
The new Cinderella reboot while be accompanied by the new short Frozen Fever.
Fact #2400
The new reboot is set to be released March 13th of this year. (2015).
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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did!
My birthday is tomorrow so I don't know if I'll get an update out during the weekend. I am entering adult hood! 0_0
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