Ella Cinders

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Colleen Moore

Ella Cinders

Lloyd Hughes

Waite Lifter

Vera Lewis

Ma Cinders

Doris Baker

Lotta Pill

Emily Gerdes

Prissy Pill

Mike Donlin

Film Studio Gateman

Jed Prouty

Mayor

Jack Duffy

Fire Chief

Harry Allen

Photographer

Alfred E. Green

Director

D'Arcy Corrigan

Editor

Billy Butts

Neighbor Kid (uncredited)

John D. Bloss

Child entering movie studio (uncredited)

E.H. Calvert

Studio Actor (uncredited)

Wendell Phillips Franklin

Union Ice Wagon Driver (uncredited)

Russell Hopton

Studio Actor (uncredited)

Audrey Howell

Child entering movie studio (uncredited)

Harry Langdon

Himself (uncredited)