116 Fun Facts About Cinderella

Which French writer's 1697 telling of Cinderella added the fairy godmother and the glass slippers?

Charles Perrault called it Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre, and it came with two morals, the second admitting that talent gets you nowhere without a godparent.

In the Grimms' Aschenputtel, where does the heroine's help come from instead of a fairy godmother?

A tree on her mother's grave, a hazel grown from a twig her father brought home and watered with her tears, is where a white bird throws down whatever she wishes for.

In the Grimms' Cinderella, what are the heroine's slippers made of on the third and final night?

Gold, not glass: the glass slipper belongs to the French telling, while the Grimms' heroine wears slippers embroidered with silk and silver on the first night and pure gold on the last.

In the Grimms' final text of Cinderella, what does the elder stepsister cut off, on her mother's advice, so the slipper fits?

Her big toe goes first, since her mother says a queen need never walk; the younger sister then slices off part of her heel, and blood in the shoe gives each of them away.

In the Grimms' Cinderella, what does the prince use to trap the fleeing heroine on the third night?

Pitch smeared on the stairs only half works: her left slipper sticks fast but she still gets away, as she had on earlier nights by way of a pigeon coop and a pear tree.

In the Grimms' 1819 coda to Cinderella, what happens to the stepsisters at the wedding?

Doves peck out their eyes, one each on the way into the church and the other on the way out; the 1812 first edition had let the stepsisters off with no punishment at all.

Which ancient writer first recorded the tale of the Greek girl Rhodopis?

Strabo's Geographica, around the turn of the first century, tells how Rhodopis's sandal was carried off to the king at Memphis; Herodotus had mentioned her centuries earlier only as a courtesan, without the shoe story.

In the ancient tale of Rhodopis, an early Cinderella, what snatches her sandal and carries it to the king of Egypt?

An eagle snatches it while she bathes and flings it into the lap of the king as he judges cases in the open air at Memphis; struck by its shape, he has the country searched for its owner and marries her.

In the ninth-century Chinese tale of Ye Xian, the heroine's festival finery comes from the magical bones of what?

A fish she secretly raised is killed by her stepmother; its bones, hidden in her room, grant her wishes and dress her for the festival in a cloak of kingfisher feathers.

Basile's 1634 Cinderella tale, an early Italian version, was written in the dialect of which southern city?

Naples: Basile wrote his fairy tales in Neapolitan and never saw them in print, because his sister Adriana published the collection there after his death.

In Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, what replaces the slipper as the proof of the heroine's identity?

Matching bracelets: the heroine hands the prince one and tells him to find its twin, in a libretto that dropped the fairy and the slipper and gave her the philosopher Alidoro as helper.

Folklorists classify the tale under which Aarne-Thompson-Uther type number, 'Persecuted Heroine'?

Type ATU 510A, the Persecuted Heroine, also covers The Wonderful Birch and Fair, Brown and Trembling; stories where the father himself is the persecutor, like Donkeyskin, are type 510B.

If Cinderella's 'glass' slipper came from confusing French verre with vair, what would the slippers be?

Squirrel fur: vair was a prized medieval fur, probably squirrel, and Balzac later argued that the tale's 'verre' was a mix-up, although the original French title spells out a slipper of glass.

Which French film pioneer made Cendrillon, an 1899 Cinderella full of trick effects?

Georges Méliès made Cendrillon his first film with several scenes, and its success in fairgrounds and music halls pushed him to make more multi-scene story films.

Who provided the voice of Cinderella in Disney's 1950 animated film?

Ilene Woods recorded demos of the film's songs as a favour to two songwriter friends, not knowing Walt Disney would hear them and offer her the title role.

Which song is heard as Cinderella scrubs the floor among multiplying soap-bubble reflections?

Cinderella sings Sing Sweet Nightingale while scrubbing the floor, harmonising with several reflections of herself in the soap bubbles, after the stepsisters have mangled the same song at their music lesson.

Who plays Cinderella in Disney's 2014 film of the Sondheim musical Into the Woods?

Anna Kendrick's Cinderella, fleeing her prince, runs into the Baker's Wife, played by Emily Blunt, who needs one of her slippers for the potion that will lift a witch's curse.

Eleanor Audley, the voice of the stepmother Lady Tremaine, went on to voice which other Disney villain?

Maleficent: Eleanor Audley did more than speak both villains, because she also acted out their scenes on film so the animators could copy her face and gestures.

Which stepsister, alongside Anastasia, torments Cinderella under Lady Tremaine's roof in Disney's 1950 animated film?

Drizella and Anastasia rip Cinderella's first ball dress to pieces when they spot their own cast-off beads and sash sewn onto it.

What is the name of Cinderella's dog in the 1950 film, who is turned into a footman for the ball?

Bruno later saves the day by scaring the cat Lucifer out of the tower window, which lets Cinderella get downstairs in time to try on the slipper.

Where did Walt Disney find the model for the villainous cat Lucifer?

At animator Ward Kimball's home: none of Kimball's designs for Lucifer had pleased Walt until he came to visit, saw the animator's own pet cat and announced that there was the model.

Cinderella's reference model Helene Stanley later did the same job for which Disney heroine?

Aurora in Sleeping Beauty: Helene Stanley acted the scenes out on film for the animators, and on Cinderella she had posed as one of the stepsisters too, heroine and tormentor both.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo lost the Academy Award for Best Original Song to which song?

Mona Lisa won for the thriller Captain Carey, U.S.A., where another singer performs it on screen; Nat King Cole's separate record was the one that went to number one.

In Disney's 1950 film, what is the name of Cinderella's horse, who becomes the coachman?

Major, the old horse, expects to pull the coach, but the Fairy Godmother tells him that tonight he will handle the reins, and turns him into the coachman instead.

At the first Berlin festival in 1951, Disney's Cinderella won a Golden Bear in which category?

Music film: the first Berlinale gave a Golden Bear for each genre, and the public sided with its jury, voting Cinderella their favourite film of the whole festival.

Cinderella's 1988 VHS release was the best-selling video title ever until which film overtook it?

E.T. reached video stores the same month with double Cinderella's record pre-orders, and went on to sell over 15 million tapes, about twice the Disney total.

Disney's 'Nine Old Men' nickname borrowed a Roosevelt-era jibe aimed at what?

The Supreme Court's justices were tagged 'nine old men' during Roosevelt's fight with the court; Walt borrowed the tag as a joke for his nine core animators, two of whom, Eric Larson and Marc Davis, drew Cinderella herself.

Which prolific video-game voice actress took over as Cinderella in Disney's 2002 sequel Dreams Come True?

Jennifer Hale, also Mass Effect's Commander Shepard, speaks the part in both sequels but does not sing it: in A Twist in Time the songs are performed by Broadway's Tami Tappan.

In Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, how does the stepmother undo the happy ending?

Rewinds the past with a stolen wand: Anastasia picks up the Fairy Godmother's dropped wand, and her mother uses it to return to the slipper fitting and make the shoe fit Anastasia.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, what happens to the glass slipper the Grand Duke brings for her to try?

It shatters on the floor: the stepmother trips the servant carrying it, and Cinderella calmly reveals that she has kept the other one.

What kind of animals are Jaq and Gus, Cinderella's helpers in the Disney film?

Mice: Jaq's squeaky voice came from sound-effects man Jimmy MacDonald, who had recently taken over another Disney mouse, Mickey, from Walt himself.

Who directed Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella?

Kenneth Branagh took over, with a Chris Weitz script, after Disney parted ways with Mark Romanek, whose vision for the film was darker than the studio wanted.

What is the prince's name in Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella?

Kit: he hides his rank when he meets Ella in the forest, passing himself off as a palace apprentice and using the nickname his father has for him.

Who took the title role in Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella after Emma Watson's negotiations for the part fell through?

Lily James got the part; Watson later said the character did not resonate with her and took Belle in Beauty and the Beast instead.

Before landing the lead in Disney's 2015 Cinderella, its star first auditioned for which part?

Anastasia the stepsister was the part she first read for, until the casting director suggested she try for Ella instead, and Holliday Grainger became the stepsister.

Which animated short played in cinemas ahead of Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella?

Frozen Fever sent audiences back to Arendelle for Anna's birthday, where Elsa's cold makes her sneeze out tiny snowmen that wreck the party.

Who played the Fairy Godmother in Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella?

Helena Bonham Carter first turns up in the garden as an old beggar woman before revealing who she is, and she narrates the whole film as well.

Who was the first actor cast in Disney's 2015 Cinderella, as the stepmother?

Cate Blanchett signed on in late 2012, before anyone else; the remake gives her stepmother a motive, when she overhears her new husband say how much he still misses his first wife.

Who starred in the original 1957 live television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella?

Julie Andrews was signed by CBS before the show was written, while she was starring in My Fair Lady on Broadway, and Rodgers said the chance to work with her was what sold him.

The palace set for the 1997 TV Cinderella was built on the soundstage once used for which classic film?

The Wizard of Oz: the courtyard went up where the yellow brick road had run on the old MGM lot, so the crew painted its bricks yellow as a tribute.

Roughly how many Americans watched Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella live on television in 1957?

107 million: it was the largest audience television had ever drawn, yet the colour show went out live, so what survives is a black-and-white film recording.

Who played the Fairy Godmother in the 1997 TV Cinderella starring Brandy?

Whitney Houston was first meant to play Cinderella herself, but by the time the film was made she felt she had outgrown the part, so she offered it to Brandy and became her Fairy Godmother.

Which Seinfeld actor played Lionel the herald in the 1997 TV version?

Jason Alexander's herald served Victor Garber's king and Whoopi Goldberg's queen in a film that cost a then-unprecedented $12 million for a TV movie.

Who played the title role in the 1965 television remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, aged 18?

Lesley Ann Warren's version was recorded on videotape, unlike the live original that could be shown only once, so CBS repeated it eight times through 1974.

The 2013 Broadway Cinderella was nominated for nine Tony Awards but won only one, in which category?

Costume Design: William Ivey Long's gowns won the only Tony for a musical that had waited 56 years, since 1957, for its first Broadway production.

Who plays the heroine Danielle in the 1998 film Ever After?

Drew Barrymore's Danielle dresses up as a noblewoman to buy back a family servant with money the prince gave her, in a film that drops the magic and treats the tale as history.

Which historical figure stands in for the fairy godmother in Ever After?

Leonardo da Vinci, a guest of the French king, frees Danielle from a locked pantry and makes the wings she wears to the masque, then scolds Prince Henry for rejecting her.

At the end of Ever After, where are the cruel stepmother and her daughter Marguerite sent to work?

The palace laundry: the queen is ready to ship them overseas until Danielle, now a princess, asks for a punishment that fits the way they treated her.

Which castle in the Dordogne served as the royal palace in Ever After?

Château de Hautefort, a 17th-century castle in the Dordogne, stood in for the royal palace; the de Barbarac house was Château de la Roussie, and Danielle's portrait is based on da Vinci's La Scapigliata.

Who plays the stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, in Ever After?

Anjelica Huston's baroness sells off a loyal family servant and in the end sells Danielle herself, to the lecherous merchant Pierre le Pieu.

Besides the Magic Kingdom in Florida, which Disney park has its own Cinderella Castle at its centre?

Tokyo Disneyland copied the outside of Florida's castle but not the inside: where Florida has a restaurant, Tokyo ran a villain-filled Mystery Tour for twenty years.

Until 1997, the restaurant inside Cinderella Castle was named for which king from another Disney film?

King Stefan is Sleeping Beauty's father, a mismatch that puzzled Disney fans for a quarter of a century until the hall was renamed Cinderella's Royal Table.

Why do the stones and windows of Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World get smaller toward the top?

To make it look taller: it is a film-set trick called forced perspective, in which the shrinking details make the eye read the upper towers as much further away than they are.

For Walt Disney World's 25th anniversary in 1996, the castle was made over to look like what?

A giant pink birthday cake: it took more than 400 gallons of pink paint to cover the castle, which then stayed in icing and candles for the whole 15-month celebration.

In the mosaic murals inside Cinderella Castle's archway, the two stepsisters' faces are tinted which colours?

Red and green: one sister is red with anger and the other green with envy as they watch the slipper fit, in panels set by Hanns Scharff, a wartime Luftwaffe interrogator turned mosaic artist.

The suite planned inside Cinderella Castle for Walt Disney's family was at one point used as what?

A telephone call center: the family suite was never finished as planned, and the space did odd jobs for decades until Disney fitted it out as a royal bedchamber and gave away overnight stays in 2007.

What was Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2021 Cinderella musical retitled for its short Broadway run?

Bad Cinderella closed in June 2023 after less than three months, leaving Broadway without a Lloyd Webber show for the first time since Evita opened in 1979.

In the 2021 Amazon musical film, who plays the fairy godparent 'Fab G'?

Billy Porter's gender-neutral Fab G replaces the fairy godmother; the film went straight to Prime Video after Sony sold it to Amazon during the pandemic.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, why is the King so eager for his son to marry?

He longs for grandchildren: the King is fast asleep, dreaming of playing with them, at the very moment Cinderella flees the ball at midnight.

Who voiced Lucifer the cat in Disney's 1950 Cinderella?

June Foray, later famous as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, recalled the studio asking whether she could do a cat; she said she could do anything and got the job.

Walt Disney first adapted the Cinderella tale in 1922 as a cartoon short for which company?

Laugh-O-Gram was Walt's own Kansas City studio; it went bankrupt within a year of making Cinderella, and he sold his camera to buy a one-way train ticket to Hollywood.

Which three-time Oscar winner designed the costumes for the 2015 live-action film?

Sandy Powell aimed for the look of a 19th-century period film made in the 1940s or 1950s, with 10,000 crystals on each ballgown.

In Disney's 2015 Cinderella, what does Ella's dying mother make her promise?

Have courage and be kind: Ella keeps the promise through every cruelty, and the film closes with her and her prince ruling by the same two words.

Which country was the biggest market outside North America for Disney's 2015 Cinderella?

China: the film was a hit there from its opening weekend, even though it played only in 2D in a market then known for preferring 3D releases.

Who played the stepmother opposite Brandy in the 1997 TV Cinderella?

Bernadette Peters sings Falling in Love with Love, borrowed from The Boys from Syracuse to show a stepmother soured by bitter experience rather than simply wicked.

Which pop singer made her acting debut as the title character in Kay Cannon's 2021 jukebox-musical Cinderella for Amazon?

Camila Cabello was cast in 2019 for what was meant to be a Sony cinema release; the pandemic halted filming, the theatrical run was cancelled and Amazon bought the finished film.

What colour is the ball gown the Fairy Godmother gives Cinderella in Disney's 1950 animated film?

Silver is the gown's colour in the film, and it replaces the homemade dress her stepsisters had torn apart only moments earlier.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, whose old dress do her animal friends fix up for the royal ball?

Her mother's dress is the one they remake, trimming it with a sash and beads the stepsisters had thrown away, which is why the sisters rip it to pieces.

How does Disney's Cinderella prove herself after Lady Tremaine makes the footman smash the glass shoe?

She has the other slipper, kept safe since the night of the ball, and it slides straight onto her foot to her stepmother's shock.

In Disney's 1950 film, how does Lady Tremaine try to keep Cinderella from trying on the glass slipper?

She locks her in the attic bedroom and pockets the key, so Jaq and Gus have to steal it back and haul it up a long flight of stairs.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, why is the King so impatient for his son to choose a bride at the ball?

He wants grandchildren, so the loud, short-tempered King throws the ball hoping his son will pick a wife that very night.

Which heroine is numbered first in Disney's official Princess line-up, one place ahead of Cinderella?

Snow White is first because the princesses are numbered by film release, and her 1937 film reached cinemas thirteen years before Cinderella's.

In the 2004 teen film A Cinderella Story, what does Hilary Duff's character drop in place of a glass slipper?

Her cell phone is the modern slipper: Sam drops it as she rushes away from a Halloween dance before midnight, and her mystery pen pal Austin finds it.

Which animated sequel turns Cinderella's Fairy Godmother figure into a scheming villain voiced by Jennifer Saunders?

Shrek 2 makes her a celebrity potion seller who plots to marry her own son to Princess Fiona, and she ends the film bursting into bubbles.

By royal command in Disney's 1950 Cinderella, who must attend the ball held for the Prince?

Every eligible maiden in the kingdom is invited, which gives Cinderella a claim to go and gives her stepfamily a reason to keep her too busy to get ready.

Which Bavarian castle built for King Ludwig II helped inspire Walt Disney World's Cinderella Castle?

Neuschwanstein lent its fairy-tale turrets to the plans, alongside French châteaux such as Chambord and Spain's Alcázar of Segovia.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, whom does the King order to try the glass slipper on every girl in the kingdom?

The Grand Duke, the King's fussy confidant, gets the errand, and one actor, Luis van Rooten, voiced both him and the King he argues with.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, what tips off Lady Tremaine that her stepdaughter was the girl at the ball?

She hums the waltz she danced with the Prince, having only just learned that her partner was royal, and her stepmother overhears.

Which song do Cinderella and the Prince sing as they dance together at the ball in Disney's 1950 film?

So This Is Love was once subtitled The Cinderella Waltz, and it replaced a scrapped ballroom number called Dancing on a Cloud.

After years of package films, Cinderella was Disney's first full-length animated story since which 1942 feature?

Bambi had been the last, as wartime losses in Europe left the studio making package films until work on full features resumed in 1948.

Which set-building trick makes Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World look taller than it really is?

Forced perspective shrinks the stones, windows and doors the higher they sit, so the towers seem to climb far higher than they really do.

Which Game of Thrones actor played the prince in Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella?

Richard Madden later reunited with his co-star and director on the London stage, playing Romeo in a West End Romeo and Juliet.

Which Broadway star plays the stepmother in Amazon's 2021 musical Cinderella?

Idina Menzel plays Vivian, a stepmother given a bitter backstory of her own about giving up her dreams, opposite Pierce Brosnan's King Rowan.

Who played Queen Constantina in the 1997 television Cinderella starring Brandy?

Whoopi Goldberg took the part hoping the film would bring back the tradition of watching a big television musical live as it aired.

Which Canadian pop singer made her Broadway debut in 2014 as the lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella?

Carly Rae Jepsen played the part for twelve weeks, stepping into a role that Laura Osnes had created when the production opened.

In Ella Enchanted, the Cinderella retelling starring Anne Hathaway, which 'gift' curses the heroine from birth?

Obedience makes Ella carry out any command she hears, however harmful, until she breaks the spell by ordering herself to stop obeying.

In Marissa Meyer's novel Cinder, the Cinderella figure is New Beijing's best mechanic and also what?

A cyborg Cinderella came to the author as she drifted off to sleep, a couple of months after a contest entry, a futuristic Puss in Boots, set her reworking fairy tales as science fiction.

Which Russian composer wrote the ballet Cinderella, first danced at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre in 1945?

Sergei Prokofiev broke off partway through to write his opera War and Peace, and his ballet has twelve dwarfs spring from the palace clock at midnight.

In British pantomime versions of Cinderella, which servant loves the heroine but never wins her heart?

Buttons takes his name from the gilt-buttoned jackets of pageboys, and since his 1860 London debut his hopeless devotion has given the comedy its one sad note.

Lucille Bliss, who voiced a stepsister in Disney's 1950 Cinderella, later voiced which 1980s cartoon character?

Smurfette came three decades after her Disney debut, and Bliss had also been Crusader Rabbit, the hero of the first cartoon made for television.

Which future daytime talk-show host sang the Prince's songs in Disney's 1950 animated Cinderella?

Mike Douglas was a big band singer at the time, while William Phipps spoke the Prince's lines, so the character needed two voices.

Which Depression-era heavyweight champion was nicknamed the Cinderella Man, the title of a 2005 film about him?

James Braddock got the name from writer Damon Runyon after going from dock work and welfare payments to beating Max Baer for the world title in 1935.

At the end of the 1697 French Cinderella, what does the forgiving heroine do for her two stepsisters?

She marries them to lords of the court on her own wedding day and gives both of them lodgings in the palace.

In the 1697 French Cinderella, where does the heroine sit after her chores, earning her sooty nickname?

In the chimney corner, among the cinders, is where she rests, and the ruder elder stepsister prefers to call her Cinderwench.

In 2018 the Library of Congress selected Disney's 1950 Cinderella for preservation in which collection?

National Film Registry titles are picked as culturally, historically or aesthetically significant, and Cinderella joined 68 years after its release.

The songs for Disney's 1950 Cinderella came from three hired writers from which American songwriting hub?

Tin Pan Alley writers Mack David, Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman had six songs ready by March 1949, replacing an earlier team's scrapped numbers.

In the Grimms' Ashputtle, how are the two stepsisters' faces described when they join the household?

Beautiful and fair of face is how the pair appear, though the same sentence goes on to call them vile and black of heart.

Which Broadway musical weaves the Grimms' Cinderella together with Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood?

Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, ties the tales together through a childless baker and his wife who are living under a witch's curse.

What were the given names of the two Grimms who recorded Ashputtle, their German Cinderella?

Jacob and Wilhelm told it as a riches to rags to riches story, echoing how the two of them had worked their way back up after an early family loss.

In the Grimms' Ashputtle, what sign tells the prince that each stepsister riding off with him is a false bride?

Blood in the shoe gives each one away, and with the second sister it has soaked through and stained her white stocking red.

Unlike Disney's film, the Grimms' Ashputtle keeps which of the heroine's relatives alive to the very end?

Her father lives throughout yet never defends her, and when the prince asks about another daughter he dismisses her as a stunted kitchen-wench.

In the Grimms' Ashputtle, what does the stepmother tip into the ashes for the heroine to pick out again?

Lentils, a whole dish of them, come with a promise that she may go to the festival if she finishes within two hours, a promise the stepmother breaks twice.

In the Grimms' Ashputtle, which creature throws down the splendid dresses the heroine wishes for?

A white bird grants every wish she speaks aloud, so this Cinderella never needs a fairy godmother or a wand.

In the Grimms' Ashputtle, what does the heroine ask for from the fair instead of dresses or jewels?

The first twig to knock his hat is all she asks of the traveller, a modest wish that ends up worth far more to her than her stepsisters' finery.

On the second evening in the Grimms' Ashputtle, where does the heroine hide when the prince follows her home?

In a pear tree, which she climbs so nimbly that the prince loses sight of her; by the time it is cut down with an axe she has jumped out the far side.

In the Grimms' Ashputtle, what footwear do the stepsisters hand the heroine after taking her pretty clothes?

Wooden shoes and an old grey bedgown replace her finery, and at the end she draws her foot out of one heavy clog to try on the slipper.

In the 1697 French Cinderella, where does the fairy godmother send her goddaughter to fetch a pumpkin?

The garden supplies the finest pumpkin she can find, and she carries it back with no idea how it could possibly get her to a ball.

In sports commentary, what does it mean when a surprise Cinderella team is said to turn into a pumpkin?

Its winning run ends and the underdog goes back to obscurity, even though in the story it is the carriage, not Cinderella, that changes back.

The pumpkin, turned into a coach in the 1697 French Cinderella, is a plant native to which part of the world?

North America is home to the wild squashes behind the pumpkin, native to what is now northeastern Mexico and the southern United States, an ocean away from the tale's French setting.

In Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella, which farmyard bird does the Fairy Godmother turn into the coachman?

A goose takes the reins in the remake, replacing the horse who was promoted to the driver's seat in the 1950 animated film.

In the 1697 French Cinderella, which animal, picked for its fine whiskers, is turned into the coachman?

A rat gets the job, and it is Cinderella who suggests looking in the trap, where the fairy picks the one with the longest beard out of three.

In the 1697 French Cinderella, which six creatures found behind a watering pot become the coach's footmen?

Lizards make the footmen, who hop up behind the coach at once and cling there as if they had done nothing else their whole lives.

In the 1697 French Cinderella, what does the fairy godmother do to the pumpkin before her wand strikes it?

She scoops out the inside and leaves nothing but the rind, and one tap of the wand then turns the hollow shell into a gilded coach.

In the 1697 French Cinderella, what colour are the six coach horses conjured from the captives of a mousetrap?

Dapple grey, and mouse-coloured at that: the tale lets each horse keep the coat it wore before the wand touched it.

Marissa Meyer's Cinder, a science-fiction Cinderella, is the first book of which series that continues with Scarlet?

The Lunar Chronicles gives each book a fairy tale of its own, and Scarlet, the second, is based on Little Red Riding Hood.

Which country's Cinderella-like folk tale Kongjwi and Patjwi has a cow and a flock of sparrows help the heroine?

Korea's Joseon-era tale also has a tortoise, or in some versions a frog, plug a leaking water pot, and its second half goes on to punish the stepmother and stepsister.