Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye (The Tales of my Mother Goose) influenced Cinderella

Disney worked from Perrault rather than from the Grimms, and the choice is visible in what is on screen: the fairy godmother, the pumpkin coach and the glass slipper are all Perrault's and none of them is in the Grimm version, where the help comes from a tree on the mother's grave and birds peck out the stepsisters' eyes. The film keeps Perrault's forgiving ending too.