It might be nice that they didn't further change it from the 1950 version, but it's still true that the 1950 version omitted some of the best aspects of the story.
The opening paragraph of Grimm's version begins with the dying mother telling her daughter, "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee."
It was Cinderella's visits to the grave and prayers to her deceased mother which granted her the dress and shoes which was necessary to attend the ball.
No fairy godmother, no cat named Lucifer, and no mice (her heavenly-gifted assistants were birds in the original).