CInderella's Father was a good-natured, handsome, and wealthy gentleman, possibly a baron or a lord, in Disney's 1950 animated feature film, Cinderella.
He loved his only daughter, Cinderella, with all his heart and lavished every imaginable care and tenderness on her. His grand château attests to his great wealth. His wife had died when Cinderella was very young.
Despite the fact that he did everything to make life better for Cinderella, he was depressed by the death of his wife and felt Cinderella needed a maternal figure, so he remarried; his second wife being Lady Tremaine, who had two daughters of her own, Anastasia and Drizella. He welcomed them into the family, and it seemed his second marriage ran smoothly until the day he died.
Upon his untimely death, Lady Tremaine showed her true colors. She tyrannically took over his château, the remnant of his fortune (which she squandered on Anastasia and Drizella), and even forced Cinderella to become the servant of her own house. As a result of this, his château "fell into disrepair", his fortune tragically dwindled and was eventually exhausted.
Appearances[]
Cinderella (1950 film)[]
The narrator described him as "a kind and devoted father, and gave his beloved child every luxury and comfort". Presumably, he acquired the dog, Bruno, and horse, Major, as gifts for her, or it could have been that they originally belonged to him and she inherited them upon his passing.
However, he still felt that she needed a mother's care, and therefore he married again. His second wife was Lady Tremaine, a handsome and dignified woman with two daughters, Anastasia and Drizella, just Cinderella's age.
It seemed his second marriage ran as smoothly and successfully as he had hoped. However, upon his untimely death, his second wife and stepdaughters revealed their true nature: cold, cruel, and heartless. Lady Tremaine, to whom all his wealth and his château had been left, revealed her bitter jealousy of Cinderella's charm and beauty now that she was freed from her husband's watchful eye. She squandered most of his fortune on Anastasia and Drizella, whose interests she was grimly determined to advance, while Cinderella was abused, humiliated, and finally forced to become the servant of her own house.
Despite all the abuse and mistreatment she had to endure under her cold, unloving stepfamily, Cinderella remained ever gentle and kind, and finally found the happiness she sought simply by keeping faith in her dreams. Hence, it could be theorized if her father were to look down from Heaven, he and his first wife (her biological mother) would definitely be extremely proud of her and be considerably consoled that she no longer had to suffer because of his terrible choice of a new wife.