See Cinderella Through the Years

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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 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, 1914Paramount
Ilene Woods as the voice of Disney's iconic Cinderella, 1950Disney
CINDERELLA, Julie Andrews, aired March 31, 1957
Julie Andrews in a TV special of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1957Everett
CINDERELLA, Lesley Ann Warren, 1965.
Lesley Ann Warren in another TV special of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1965Everett
Brandy Norwood in yet another TV version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1997ABC
Drew Barrymore in Ever After: A Cinderella Story, based loosely on the fairy tale, 199820th Century Fox
Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted, inspired by the fairy tale, 2004Buena Vista
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Amy Sedaris (second from left) as Cinderella in Shrek the Third, 2007DreamWorks
ABC's "Once Upon a Time" - Season One
Jessy Schram as Cinderella in ABC's Once Upon a Time, 2011Sergei Bachlakov—ABC/Getty Images
INTO THE WOODS
Anna Kendrick as Cinderella in Into the Woods, 2014Peter Mountain—Disney
CINDERELLA
Lily James as our modern Cinderella, 2015Jonathan Olley—Disney

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