Reviewed by: Stephe Date: 01/27/2011 Cinderella and Her Little Angels begins on a strange note in a clothing shop, where two children's mannequins come to life and sing a song about the lead character, a tailor played by Peter Chen. There is a woman mannequin in the shop which he kisses goodnight every evening, and his co-workers (Tin Ching among them) know about it. What they don't know is that the mannequin is a dead ringer for a girl he's sweet on, played by Linda Lin Dai, who works in the orphanage that sews the shop's clothing. The plot hinges on the foibles of Peter and Linda keeping the orphanage's prim matron (Wang Li) in the dark about Linda's modeling for the clothing shop's fashion shows, which Linda assents to in order to get funding for renovating the orphanage, which is badly in need of structural repairs. Lots of fun fashion is on view, and Linda's character is not annoying like it was in Bachelor's Beware. I admit to dreading this film because of not having liked Bachelor's Beware, but Linda's character here is much different. Tin Ching's love interest is played by Dolly So Fung, who I haven't seen in ages, and she is really cute in glasses and pigtails, although she doesn't have much of a part. The sewing room in the orphanage is pretty much a sweatshop, and there is a disconcerting scene where they sing a jaunty tune about how they work as fast as they can. Peter Chen, who was married to Betty Loh Tih from 1962-1966 (which made Kelly Lai Chen his brother-in-law), later re-teamed with Linda Lin Dai in the 1963 Shaw Brothers film Love Parade. Cinderella and Her Little Angels (the title refers to Linda's character and to the youngest orphans in the orphanage; the title's literal translation is "After the Cloud Clothes Are Colorful," which probably refers to both the pall over the orphanage cast by the matron and by the storm that assaults the orphanage near the end) is a predictable but engaging film, which I enjoyed. Reviewer Score: 8