Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) on Netflix
PG-1319982h 1mComedyDramaRomance
After her father dies, Danielle de Barbarac serves her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. She mistakes Henry, the Crown Prince of France, for a thief as he flees an arranged marriage.
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During the French Renaissance, Danielle de Barbarac works as a servant for her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, and her stepsisters Marguerite and Jacqueline, ten years after her father Auguste died. Henry, the Crown Prince of France, is avoiding the arranged marriage his father, King Francis, plans with Princess Gabriella of Spain. Danielle, who first took him for a thief, is paid twenty francs to keep their meeting quiet. When Rodmilla plans to send the servant Maurice to the Americas, Danielle passes herself off as a noblewoman and spends that money to buy his release at the palace, where Henry is taken with her argument with the jailer. She calls herself Countess Nicole de Lancret, her late mother's name. King Francis announces a masquerade ball where Henry must name his bride by midnight.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film takes liberties with history: King Francis I summoned Leonardo da Vinci to his court around 1516, three years before King Henry II was born, neither of Francis I's wives was named Marie (the first was Claude and the second Eleanor), and Henry II was married to Catherine de' Medici at the age of 14.
- Drew Barrymore described her character as a "tough Cinderella" who "dives into bees' hives for the wax, takes pigs out truffle-hunting, swims in the river, quotes Sir Thomas More's Utopia" and even "nails the prince with an apple for stealing her horse".
- The castle shown in the film is the Château de Hautefort in the Dordogne region of France, and other featured châteaux are de Fénelon, de Losse, de Lanquais, de Beynac and the Château de la Roussie, which served as the house of the de Barbaracs.
- The painting of Danielle seen in the film is based on Leonardo da Vinci's La Scapigliata, and another da Vinci painting, the Mona Lisa, is also featured in the film.
- A report in 2012 indicated that a musical theater production of Ever After was in the works, with the book and lyrics by Marcy Heisler and music by Zina Goldrich.
