Cinderella Jones

Cinderella Jones is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Busby Berkeley and written by Charles Hoffman.

The film stars Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, William Prince, S. Z. Sakall, and Edward Everett Horton.

[1] Struggling singer Judy Jones (Leslie) discovers she is entitled to a multimillion-dollar fortune, as long as she can live up to the terms of her late uncle's will.

Jones ditches her boyfriend, bandleader Tommy Coles (Alda), and matriculates at an elite university for the super-intelligent.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said, "If you can imagine a combination of a Nineteen Thirties "college musical" and a second-rate silent slapstick shot completely "off the cuff," then you can picture in your mind's eye the Warners' Cinderella Jones, a little package of fluff and painful cut-ups which came to the Strand yesterday.