Ilene Woods Talks Cinderella: Working with Walt 

What's really sad is that when Woods was suffering from Alzheimers, she forgot she was Cinderella, and the nurses would always play "A Dream Is a Wish your Heart Makes" to keep her calm.

I had read that the last bit of her life when she would get really depressed which can come with Alzheimer's or she was having a bad day, they would play her recording of A Dream is A Wish Your Heart Makes and it would always cheer her up.

Ariel has a very beautiful singing voice but Cinderella's voice is infinitely more lovely and heavenly. Cinderella has the most lovely and heavenly voice out of all the disney princesses, when I hear her voice especially when she sings, I feel like I am lying on a cloud in heaven listening to an angel sing.

Love Cinderella so sad she died

I also thought 'Sing Sweet Nightingale' was a genius way to layer her voice. Very few artists does this. Mariah Carey is one. But Walt Disney definitely came up with the idea. And Ilene sang it brilliantly.

R.I.P Ilene Woods :( xxx

What a kind, well-spoken woman. Despite Disney's controversies, I'm happy she had a wonderful time in her role. IT does seem like such a warm environment from how she described it, and in Disney's early days, I have no doubt it was. Rest easy, angel.

She’s aged so well 💕

It's such a shame that the Disney Company lost a legend like Ilene Woods who was the original voice actress behind Cinderella from Cinderella (1950 Version of a Disney animated movie which is a retelling of Charles Perrault's fairytale of the same name which was my mom's favorite). R.I.P. Ilene Woods, we'll miss you and your great voice acting forever. 😭

Whats really sad is that before she died of Alzheimer's, she didn't remember that she voiced Cinderella, but loved the "Dream is a wish" song.

RIP Ilene Woods. You were a BEAUTIFUL Cinderella!!!

i could kinda hear the Cinderella voice when she is talking. if u listen very carefully

I'm a guy and I don't remember it, so my parents told me years later. I was obsessed with Cinderella growing up and begged my parents to take me to Cinderella breakfast in the morning as Disney World. I was clearly very happy in those pictures. It is really upsetting what Nature does to us, all those memories and bonds you form, they just disappear and are gone forever.

Listening and singing A Dream is A Wish Your Heart Makes sparked that inspiration for me to not stop following my dreams today. I learned today I was not hired for the job position I need to kick start my dream career, and I prepared really well so I felt really disappointed with myself, lately rethinking if I have what it takes to follow my dreams. But hearing upon this song really touched my heart and helped me feel inspired to follow that dream after I stop grieving about it, I first have to believe in myself more than anybody else.

This woman’s voice is the childhood of every children

Rip Ilene woods 1929-2010

what a disney legend 💫 rip ilene woods 💙

she's such a beautiful soul!💛

Greetings from South Africa. As a blind person, now 26 years old, I think we need more people like Ilene and Walt because I love the attitude of "we can do it" instead of "how can we do it" or "can we do it". There have been quite a few challenges in my life, mostly with education, but I have always managed to make it through somehow. When I go to my weekly Ballroom dancing sessions I feel so alive and energetic and because of that I can understand where Ilene is coming from when she says that Cinderella's goal was to have a good time at the ball. RIP Ilene. It's wonderful to know you as Cinderella. You'll be greatly missed but never forgotten.

Her voice is magical just pure joy

llene woods is one of the most talented actress i have seen she was a very great singer and performer she was a beautiful women

Wow what a dream job 🥰🥰🥰 Ilene's voice is so beautiful and angelic 🥰 🥰 🥰

What a beautiful person... where have all the women gone?? Now it's too much sarcasm, and pride, and disrespect and competition. This is beauty and simplicity and trust.

What a sweet woman. This is someone I wish I could have met. 😢😢😢😢

You just gotta love Walt Disney!!!

SO BEAUTIFUL!! I WISH THESE DAYS WERE LIKE THAT

Anyone know where I can find a video of her in her younger years talking in an interview ? Black and white footage ?

We know she’s the one and only Cinderella but we also know she’d be happy to pass her roles down to the younger beautiful Cinderella’s. So everyone who’s saying “there’s only one Cinderella good enough” and “no one could ever be Cinderella like Ilene” stop it! Because she’d be happy!

What a sweet lady. I wish I could've met her.

when you was young you was just like cinderella ilene for this i love you and i love cinderela so much and she will be my favourite princess forever

I always loved Sing Sweet Nightingale. And the bubbles aren’t the only reason!

I get chills when I listen to “oh sing sweet nightingale” and now I know why. Thank you 🙏🏾

This had to have been before 2010 that she talked on this video because 2010 is when she died.

She was so beautiful! She was, is, and always will be Cinderella! No other actress, alive or otherwise, will ever be able to match her!

If she was alive, even though she is old, only she deserve to voice Cinderella everywhere

R.I.P Ilene

Not even Lily James can match up to Ilene Woods.

Cinderella (1950) is one of my favorite Disney Princess Childhood Movies & Cinderella is one of my favorite Disney Princesses. RIP Ilene Woods (The Original Voice of Cinderella). 5/5/1929 - 7/1/2010.

“It was a happy time” - Ilene Woods

close your eyes and you see Cinderella. Aged and heavy but still graceful and lovely.... as you grow older you don't love the princesses as much as you begin to fall in love with the people and the voices and the persons that worked ,that sweated and struggled to bring them to life..... OR IS IT JUST ME WHO THINKS THIS??

i just knew her now but im really happy i know her now.

Rip legend😭

R.I.P Ilene Woods the real voice of cinderella😘😘😊😊

She was an inspiration. What a beautiful human being. The real Cinderella! How much joy, light, faith, and magic has she brought to the world through her performance.

Did you know that Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty's graceful moves were modeled after Helene Stanley? Cinderella even has the same smile as Helene. When you watch Cinderella dance in her bedroom while singing A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes, those moves are exactly Helene's. I'll PM you the links.

Ilene woods never talked about her amazing talent and voice, only working with Disney.

Concordo com tudo que você disse!! Linda, original e eterna Cinderela!! É triste saber que ela já morreu, tenho quase certeza que a minha Cinderela (Simone de Moraes) também já morreu :(

The most beautiful voice

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Great interview! I would have loved to meet Walt Disney! It's so sad what Disney has become now with all the woke nonsense. RIP Ilene and Walt ❤❤

She is the voice of the Disney Cinderella movie.

Amazing 🙏🏽

One must wonder if she EVER met Adriana Casselotti and Mary Costa?

can someone please explain to me all the harry potter comments???

Love This ❤

I pretty sure that it is a video from their archives.

did you hear her new song true sisters at the movie of sofia the first once upon a princess her voice is so very young to hear wen she was voicing cinderella

God bless your page

What if Ilene Woods was alive and watch the 2015 Live-Action version???

rip cinderella

shame that actors today are too fking intense and serious to even have fun

She sounds way younger wow

Wait she's was blond i thought she had black or brown I'm confused

I didn't say that everybody had to like Harry Potter.. I was just saying that the Harry Potter cast had lots of fun on set..

I swear, if I see another Pixar movie made again I am going to scream!!!!!!!!!! Pixar is downright played out and overdone, we need to make true Disney classics again like Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and of course my beautiful and lovely Cinderella again!!!!!!!

Mary costa i still alive too now but she died a little earlier

it sad cauz almost all the actors r dead

was she the original cinderella where can i find this movie

It’s very sad that she forgot she voiced Cinderella. Alzheimer’s took it from her. She will always be cinderella

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I guest that Abigail Disney make all that stuff up and give the Disney family a bad name.

Not Harry Potter though, it seems like they have a lot of fun on set :)

Back then Disney movies were truly beautiful and lovely and full if wonder and magic unlike the crap that they make today. Tangled, Pocahontas, and Princess and the Frog are a dishonor to the classic Disney princesses.

Harry Potter makes me barf, sorry but not everyone has to like freaking Harry Potter!!!!!!!

The movie was made in 1950. What do you think?

She was so beautiful and sounded so sweet Cinderella will always be my favorite princess and she made Cinderella voice so amazing

She had Alzheimers..so...yeah