A Modern Cinderella (1917) User Reviews (2)

As unsubstantial as a chocolate sundae

[deickemeyer · 9 November 2014]

This five-reel comedy is just what the name implies, a modern version of the old-time fairy tale. It was evidently written for June Caprice, and that young lady smiles, pouts, frowns and skips through it, after her now familiar method of acting. The story is as unsubstantial as a chocolate sundae and is just suited to the age when that confection makes a satisfactory meal for the female appetite. The admirers of Miss Caprice will applaud star, story, cast and production, a condition of affairs that admits of but one conclusion: the picture fulfils the purpose for which it was intended. It only remains to add that the star wears a number of fetching frocks and that Frank Morgan, Betty Pendergast, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Grace Stevens and Tom Brooke give her good support. – The Moving Picture World, January 20, 1917

Notable June Caprice-Frank Morgan Effort

[mrb1980 · 22 March 2014]

Since "A Modern Cinderella" is a lost film, I can't really properly review it. However, surviving summaries indicate that it's an update of the old Cinderella story with Joyce (June Caprice) as a neglected younger daughter and Tom (Frank Morgan) as the love interest. The unknown Betty Prendergast stars as the older sister Polly.

"A Modern Cinderella" was one of June Caprice's successful films from the 1916-1921 period, after which she retired to raise her daughter and sadly passed away in 1936 at age 40. I would really love to see this film or the other Morgan-Caprice pairing, "Child of the Wild", but Fox's silent films were all destroyed in a fire in the 1930s. Let's hope that this or another June Caprice film turns up somewhere, because I believe that all of her films are considered lost.