Cinders admonishes him for leaving her with a litter of kits to die. He then tells her he had found another mate, who was kinder, and they were going to a more prey-rich place. Cinders' mate arrives the following day, and she growls about how she wasn't surprised he hadn't brought them anything to eat. Eventually, they find shelter under a pile of logs. Cinders snaps at the kit to forget about the legend, because no cat could help them now. When Cinders seethes over the fact that they can't find a safe place to stay, one of her kits asks her to tell them stories about the sky warriors to cheer all of them up. When Sol promises to catch enough prey for all of them someday, Cinders doesn't believe him, and instead flatly replies it would be something. She tells them they'd eat after they had found shelter. Cinders sees her kits eating kittypet food, and yowls at them to stop. During a storm, they try to find a safe place out of the rain. After he leaves, Cinders tells her kits that cats didn't always treat each other the way their father treated them. She complains that it was too sour for them to eat, calling it useless like him and demands to know what kind of father treated his kits so badly. Cinders does not have a good relationship with the father of her kits once, she is seen yowling at him because he had been gone for moons, and when he returned, he had only brought a shrew for them to eat. These stories were a very exaggerated legend about Sk圜lan it is unknown where it originated from, or how Cinders knew of it. She told her kits not to be afraid of the sky warriors, because they were good and strong, unlike the loners and rogues they lived around. To make her kits behave, she told them stories about a group of cats that lived long ago, who were noble and strong, called "sky warriors." They would float down from the clouds, and they grew as big as lions when they were angry. She was said to be a poor hunter, and had a difficult time feeding herself and her family. She is described as not being pleasant to be around because she was always complaining about their poor living conditions. She was a loner with a litter of four kits: Sol, a ginger kit, a tortoiseshell-and-white kit, and a brown-and-white kit. I'm not sure if Cinders really wanted to have kits, and she didn't hunt very well." ―Sol about his mother Beyond the Code, pages 54-55 Cinders appears in her son's flashback as he tells his Clan leader, Leafstar, about his kithood. As every reviewer has commented, Colleen Moore was a joy to watch and makes it worth seeing this movie more than once." My mother was called Cinders. Once a little boy iceman cometh, Ella's life seems a perfect Hollywood ending. But, she gives it all up to marry her Prince Charming, the erstwhile Waite Lifter (actually George Waite, the son of a wealthy businessman). Arriving in Hollywood, Ella does not have the reception she expected, but perseveres and through some clever studio gate crashing (and the amusing help from Harry Langdon), Ella lands a long term movie contract. Much to the chagrin of her step-relatives, Ella wins the contest because the judges were sure Hollywood needed an actress who could cross her eyes while looking at a fly on her nose. That and the bit Ella does with her eyes were amazing and funny. As she's leaving her house, a title card informs us that "When Ella got into her good clothes, six moths laughed until they died." The session with the photographer does not go well for Ella (but it does for audience!)- thanks to a pesky fly. Among the funniest scenes in the movie are when Ella goes to a professional photographer to get the photo needed for the contest. Ella's chance to escape comes when the Gem Studio is promoting a movie contest ball. Ella's one pal is the iceman, Waite Lifter. Ella is the household drudge for her nasty step-sisters (Lotta and Prissy Pill) and step-mother. This Cinderella story stars the wonderful Colleen Moore as the much put upon Ella Cinders.
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