--- description: From Julie Andrews to Brandy, the best actresses to fill the glass slippers title: Cinderella Through the Years image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt978bbd24dce0a641/69878339cd684850ad09a1c4/cinderella-movies-11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See Cinderella Through the Years by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 12, 2015 1:00 PM CUT  Lily James as our modern Cinderella, 2015 Lily James as our modern Cinderella, 2015Jonathan Olley—Disney by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 12, 2015 1:00 PM CUT Love her or hate her, there’s no denying Cinderella has held an important place in American culture for decades — and why not? With its rags-to-riches arc, the fairy tale has elements of the American Dream — just sub in those glass slippers for bootstraps. The latest iteration of the story, a live-action Disney version out Friday, stars [Lily James as a feistier version](http://time.com/3738928/cinderella-lily-james/ "undefined") of the peasant-turned-princess. Though the heroine may have become more independent over the course of time, her wardrobe has remained fairly consistent. Here’s a look back at some of our favorite Cinderellas in history.  Silent film star Mary Pickford in Cinderella, 1914 Paramount  Ilene Woods as the voice of Disney's iconic Cinderella, 1950 Disney  Julie Andrews in a TV special of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1957 Everett  Lesley Ann Warren in another TV special of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1965 Everett  Brandy Norwood in yet another TV version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1997 ABC  Drew Barrymore in Ever After: A Cinderella Story, based loosely on the fairy tale, 1998 20th Century Fox  Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted, inspired by the fairy tale, 2004 Buena Vista  Amy Sedaris (second from left) as Cinderella in Shrek the Third, 2007 DreamWorks  Jessy Schram as Cinderella in ABC's Once Upon a Time, 2011 Sergei Bachlakov—ABC/Getty Images  Anna Kendrick as Cinderella in Into the Woods, 2014 Peter Mountain—Disney  Lily James as our modern Cinderella, 2015 Jonathan Olley—Disney ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3741193/see-cinderella-through-the-years/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3741193/see-cinderella-through-the-years/"},"headline":"See Cinderella Through the Years","datePublished":"2015-03-12T13:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:07.109Z","description":"From Julie Andrews to Brandy, see the best actresses to fill the glass slippers","url":"https://time.com/3741193/see-cinderella-through-the-years/","keywords":["movies","photography","Disney","Cinderella"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt978bbd24dce0a641/69878339cd684850ad09a1c4/cinderella-movies-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt978bbd24dce0a641/69878339cd684850ad09a1c4/cinderella-movies-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CINDERELLA","caption":"CINDERELLA","creditText":"Jonathan Olley—Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3741193/see-cinderella-through-the-years/","name":"See Cinderella Through the Years"}}]}] ```