No other version of CINDERELLA will ever come close to the magical conception presented to America in 1965.
Reasons:
The Tunes: timeless, perfect, memorable, stuck-in-my-mind, forever in my heart, Rodgers and Hammerstein's most catchy words and music - bar none...
The Actors: from the tender innocence of Leslie Ann Warren to the giddily comical Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick, terrifically snide Jo Van Fleet, regal Ginger Rogers and Walter Pidgeon, handsome Stuart Damon,
The Story: simply told, tenderly and dramatically unfolded,
The Production: effectively suggests the magic by its otherworldly sets (no matter the changes in television and special effects that came much later in film history),
Forever an important part of growing up, still in my heart, my sister's heart and my dear parents' hearts...we often still sit down and watch...enjoying ever second together as if it were 1965, all over again.