Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) on Netflix
Approved19371h 23mAnimationFamilyFantasy
Princess Snow White outshines her stepmother, the Queen, whose Magic Mirror names her fairest in the land. The Queen orders her huntsman to kill her, so Snow White flees into the forest.
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- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb7.6/10240,433 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Plot summary
Snow White, a princess who lost both parents young, lives with her stepmother, the Queen, who fears the girl's beauty will outshine her own and keeps her working as a scullery maid. Each day the Queen asks her Magic Mirror who is fairest in the land, and Snow White meets a prince who overhears her singing. When the mirror names Snow White, the Queen orders her Huntsman to kill the princess in the forest. He warns her instead, and she flees deep into the woods, where woodland animals lead her to a hidden cottage. There she meets seven dwarfs, Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey, who mine jewels nearby, and they agree she may stay.
Cast
- Scotty Mattrawas Bashful (voice) (uncredited)
- Marion Darlingtonas Birds (voice) (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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- Disney mortgaged his house to help finance the film, which ran up a total cost of $1,488,422.74. Midway through he needed a $250,000 loan, and ran a rough cut for Joseph Rosenberg of Bank of America, who sat impassively, then turned to him and said that the thing was going to make a hatful of money.
- Both Disney's wife Lillian and his brother Roy, who was also his business partner, tried unsuccessfully to talk him out of it, and movie-industry insiders derisively referred to the film as "Disney's Folly" while it was in production.
- Caselotti got her audition almost by accident: Disney's casting director Roy Scott telephoned her father, a vocal coach in Los Angeles, in search of voice talents, and Caselotti, overhearing their conversation, recommended herself for the part.
- Caselotti was called in for forty-four days of recording sessions spread over two years, receiving $20 for each day. In total she was paid $970 for the work.
- La Verne tried out for the role of the Witch, and the animators initially felt that her voice was "too smooth and not rough enough" until she removed her false teeth.
- The soup-eating and bed-building sequences were animated by Ward Kimball, who was so discouraged by their removal that he considered leaving the studio. Disney persuaded him to stay by promoting him to supervising animator of Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1940).
- In the original storyboard Dopey was very talkative, but no suitable voice actors could be found and Mel Blanc was given a try without success. It was suggested to make the character mute instead.
- Adding color to Snow White's and the Queen's faces proved difficult. Eventually a red dye was found that worked, applied with a small piece of cotton wrapped around a tipple pencil on each individual cel by Helen Ogger of the ink department; the method was so time-consuming it was never used again on the same scale.
