The bangs don't work for me
What am I talking about. Well, a free YouTube video movie with commercials, "Cinderella" 1965 introducing Leslie Ann WARREN. RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN.
Hey!1 It's a whatever night.
Incredible trivia: Leslie Ann was 18 yrs old. She broke down crying singing a key song (Little Corner something). Song exists by SINATRA and GARLAND. (GARLAND comes up as the maximum no matter what.) Her ball dance dress was so heavy she had to be injected with muscle relaxants. Everything (scenes minutes long) took (incredible time) whatever to stage. First version was for Julie ANDREWS, R. RODGERS didn't like it.
So: R&H are the max so this has to be tops no?. This TV version 1965 is said to have been re-played for years like Wizard/Oz. Uh, O.K. No really memorable music for me. Stellar cameos Ginger ROGERS, Walter PIGEON, with Richard R. staging the whole production, R. RODGERS liked it fine. Actually, Celeste HOLM caught the eye as the fairy godmother more than Ginger as the queen.
Rogers & Hammerstein are the tops, but what's wrong (for me?) :
* The bangs on Leslie Ann.
* The "royal" fantasy thing.
* The girl needs a prince.
* The prince thinks he's a prize.
* Lookism all over the place.
* Uh... - what am I supposed to watch, (insert long, depressing stuff here)
* No R&H gorgeous music and lyrics.
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That said, I generally do not like bangs like that on anyone. But, they never really bothered me on Leslie. It was a "thing" for the times.
I was 15 (I think) when this first aired, and I absolutely adored it. Those bangs were very much in style at the time. I had them myself (they looked terrible on me, but I didn't know it then 
), and so did most of the girls in my school and quite a few young, female celebrities. So the bangs were cool by me. 
I do remember thinking Lesley Ann Warren wasn't really pretty enough to play Cinderella, though.
In my mind, Cinderella was supposed to be stunningly beautiful, drop dead gorgeous, and Warren was just moderately pretty, in a girl next door, rather ordinary sort of way. Not nearly the level of glamor that I thought was called for! 
Later on, I discovered the soundtrack in the library, checked it out, and played that big old 33 1/3 rpm lp until I knew all the songs by heart. I still remember (most of) the lyrics to my three favorites (In My Own Little Corner, Impossible, and The Stepsisters' Lament).
One thing about this version of Cinderella that is different from most other versions is the way the stepsisters were portrayed. Instead of being totally evil and hateful, they were kind of pathetically inept in a way that was played for laughs and actually made you feel a little sorry for them, especially if you were (like me) the kind of girl who always got overlooked by the boys in favor of the cooler, prettier girls. The Stepsisters' Lament, which they sang at the ball, was hilarious. And here's a bit of trivia: Prunella, the "fat" stepsister, was played by Pat Carroll, best known today for voicing Ursula the Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid.
I also remember seeing this as a kid, I think the issue was that she didn't fit the Disney profile which became the standard "Cinderella" that everyone thought of. I also saw that movie, though I don't remember. My mother said she took me to see it as a pre-schooler and said I made a fuss and wanted to leave because I was afraid of the mean cat! 
That said, my first real job was for the summer at an amusement park - and I was hired as Cinderella, likely because I fit the Disney profile like all the other fantasy characters in the park, Alice in Wonderland, etc. My duties involved taking kids for rides in a horse driven pumpkin coach. But there was one day when it was pouring rain and the coach, horses, driver and I were forced to take shelter in the horse barn along with a family consisting of two little girls who were next in line for a ride. I was trapped with them and they were full of questions, including why I had black hair when I was on TV! They must have seen the Leslie Ann Warren edition. 
My first paying job. And it was anything but pleasant. I had to stand out in the hot sun wearing a long dress, I couldn't take a bathroom break or go to lunch without being stopped to pose for photos with everybody's kids - and I was located right across from Mother Goose who was extremely unpleasant, kept giving me a hard time about everything I did! 
Same thing with the Disney cartoon version, and most other adaptations that I've seen. The story line is basically pretty girl meets handsome boy, they fall in love at first sight, and (ultimately) live happily ever after.
Don't know when I'll watch it but it's good to know where to find it. 