Cinderella Jones

Originally intended as a small-scale 1944 wartime musical, the release of CINDERELLA JONES was held up for two years so the studio could launch a new male star, Alda, in the more ambitious film RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945). Unfortunately, neither the film nor Alda became a hit and by delaying the release of CINDERELLA JONES, many of its wartime references had to be edited out at the expense of the plot. The story revolves around a young woman, Leslie, who stands to inherit $10 million if she can marry a man with unusual intelligence. She figures that an exclusive male technology institute is the proper place to find such a genius, and she attempts to enroll in the schoo...