After her mother dies, Ella’s thoughtless and greedy father marries Dame Olga (Joanna Lumley) a loathsome woman with two treacherous daughters – sound vaguely familiar?
In a quick sight-gag at the end of the movie we learn that Dame Olga’s cosmetic surgery did not produce quite the promised results.
Sallie Jaye was chief makeup artist; Neal Scanlan was responsible for animatronics & special makeup effects.