Cecil B. DeMille embraces the Cinderella story– with his own twist, of course. Agnes Ayres plays a beautiful seamstress hired as the bait in a honey trap designed to keep businessman Forrest Stanley at the negotiating table. What he doesn’t know is that she’s really married to a nasty criminal. Since this is DeMille, we also get a fairy tale fantasy sequence with see-through Rococo costumes. Silly but all in good fun.
How does it end? Hover or tap below for a spoiler.
The nasty husband is conveniently bumped off, leaving Ayres free to marry her handsome new suitor. Well, that was tidy and no fairy magic necessary! (Apparently, Cinderella could have gotten faster and easier results from hiring a hitman. Good to know.)
If it were a dessert it would be: Sugar Eggs. Decadent and lovely to look at, though a bit light on substance.
Read my review here and take a gander at those luscious costumes.
Availability: Not yet released on DVD, alas.
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I do love some fairy tale related films. I’ve only seen Ayres in the Sheik films, so it would be interesting to see her in another project.
She’s given considerably more to do here than in either Sheik film but I have to admit that I wasn’t blown away.
Is this the one where she literally kicks off her glass slipper but tried to make it look like it came off by accident? That scene always made me crack up
Yep, that’s the one. Agnes Ayres was dating one of the executives of Paramount, which suddenly makes her casting much more understandable. 😉
Looks like fun! I’ve always been a fan of DeMille (but I don’t recall seeing this one).
Yes, it doesn’t show up too often. DeMille pictures are always a blast. 🙂