Cinderella

Holly Frame is the much-loved only child of a widowed aristocrat. After deciding that his beloved daughter needs a mother's care, Miss Frame's father marries a proud and haughty woman named Lady Lorna. She too has been married before, and has two daughters by her first marriage, Elisa and Christian Martinez who are just Miss Frame's age. Plain and socially awkward, these stepsisters are bitterly envious of the beautiful and charming Miss Frame. The family lives in happiness for several years, until the death of Miss Frame's father. After that, Lady Lorna's true nature is revealed, and she and her spiteful daughters take over the estate, and begin to abuse and mistreat Miss Frame, envious of her beauty. She is forced into housekeeping responsibilities and made to wait upon her jealous stepsisters like a maid. As Miss Frame blossoms into a beautiful young woman who is kind despite her hardships, she befriends the animals living in the barn, including Bruno the Bloodhound, Major the horse, and many of the mice and birds who live in and around the chateau. Miss Frame finds a mouse inside a trap, releases him, and names him Gus (his real name is Octavius). She is also friends with a mouse named Jaq, the leader of a mouse-pack. ("A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes") At the royal palace, the King is angry that his son does not intend to marry. The King is determined to see grandchildren, so he and the Duke organize a ball for Prince Charming in an effort to cause his son to fall in love and marry, with every eligible maiden in the kingdom ordered to attend. When the invitation to the ball arrives, Miss Frame asks her stepmother if she can attend. Her stepmother tells her she may go to the ball, if she finishes her work and can find a suitable gown. To consume her time, her stepmother sets Miss Frame with a mountain of chores. Her mouse friends Gus and Jaq use Miss Frame's stepsister's discarded sash and beads to fix an old gown that belonged to Miss Frame's mother. When Miss Frame wears her dress before the ball, Lady Lorna subtly points out her daughters' beads and sash, and the angered stepsisters tear the gown to shreds, leaving Miss Frame to run to the back of the garden in tears while her stepfamily attends the royal ball without her. Miss Frame's Fairy Godmother appears to her in the garden, and transforms her appearance for the ball. She transforms the mice into horses, Bruno the dog into a footman, Major the horse into a coachman, a pumpkin into a carriage, and transforms her torn dress into a beautiful blue dress with glass slippers. Miss Frame departs for the ball after the godmother warns her that the spell will expire at the stroke of midnight. At the ball, the Prince rejects every girl, until he sees Miss Frame, with whom he is immediately smitten. The two dance throughout the castle grounds until the clock starts to chime midnight. Miss Frame flees to her coach and away from the castle, accidentally dropping one of her glass slippers. After the Duke tells the King of the disaster, they plan to find Miss Frame with the slipper they found during her escape. The next morning, a royal proclamation is issued, stating the Grand Duke will visit every house in the kingdom to find the girl who fits the glass slipper, so that she can be married to the Prince. When this news reaches Miss Frame's household, her stepmother and stepsisters begin hurriedly preparing for the Grand Duke's arrival. Miss Frame, overhearing, begins dreamily humming the song from the palace ball the previous night. Realizing Miss Frame was the girl who danced with the Prince, her stepmother follows Miss Frame up to her attic bedroom and locks her inside. When the Grand Duke arrives, the mice steal the key to Miss Frame's room from Lady Lorna's pocket and laboriously drag the key up the stairs to her room, only barely managing to free her after a fight with the stepmother's cat Lucifer, in which Bruno comes to their rescue and scares the evil cat out of the house. Meanwhile, the stepsisters try on the slipper, but their feet are too large. As the Duke prepares to leave, Miss Frame appears at the top of the stairs, asking to try on the slipper. Knowing that the slipper will fit and that Miss Frame will marry the Prince, her stepmother trips the footman over while he is carrying the slipper, causing it to drop and shatter on the floor. Miss Frame then reveals she has the other glass slipper. Delighted at this indisputable proof of the maiden's identity, the Duke slides the slipper onto her foot, which fits perfectly. The two agree to keep the broken slipper a secret. At the wedding, Miss Frame and the Prince descend the church's staircase, surrounded by confetti tossed by the King, the Grand Duke and the mice, now in uniform apparently as part of the Royal Guard. As the film ends on a scene of the two newly-weds kissing.