Quotes
 Snow White: Once there was a Princess.
Doc: Was this princess you?
Snow White: And she fell in love.
Sneezy: Was it hard to do?
Snow White: It was very easy/anyone could see/that the Prince was charming/the only one for me.
Doc: Was he strong and handsome?
Sneezy: Was he big and tall?
Snow White: Their`s nobody like him/anywhere at all.
Bashful: Did he say he loved ya?
Happy: Did he steal a kiss?
Snow White: [sung] He was so romantic/I could not resist. Snow White: [to the Seven Dwarfs] If you let me stay, I`ll keep house for you. I`ll wash and sew and sweep and cook...
Dwarfs: COOK?
Doc: Uh, can you make dapple lumplings? Er, lumple dapplings?
Grumpy, Sleepy: Apple dumplings.
Doc: Yes, crapple dumpkins.
Snow White: Yes, and plum pudding and gooseberry pie...
Dwarfs: Gooseberry pie? Hooray! She stays!
Grumpy: [watching the Dwarfs washing themselves] Next thing you know, she`ll be tyin` your beards up in pink ribbons and smellin` ya up with that stuff called, uh...”perfoom".
Snow White: [to the Seven Dwarfs] Please don`t send me away. If you do, she`ll kill me.
Dwarfs: Kill you?
Happy: Who will?
Sneezy: Yes, who?
Snow White: My stepmother, the queen.
Dwarfs: The QUEEN! She`s wicked!
Happy: She`s bad!
Sneezy: She`s mighty mean!
Grumpy: She`s an old witch! And I`m warnin` ya, if that queen finds her here, she`ll swoop down and wreak her vengeance on us!
Snow White: But she doesn`t know where I am.
Grumpy: She don`t, eh? She knows everything. She`s full of black magic! She can even make herself *invisible*. Pfft! Might be in this room right now!
Grumpy: Hah! Women! A fine kettle of fish.
Snow White: Supper`s not quite ready. You`ll just have time to wash.
Grumpy: Hah! Knew there`s a catch to it!
Grumpy: Ya crazy fool! Fine time ya picked to sneeze!
Sneezy: I couldn`t help it. I can`t tell. When you gotta, you gotta.
Sneezy: Hey, someone stole our dishes!
Happy: They ain`t stole. They`re hid in the cupboard.
Bashful: My cup`s been washed. Sugar`s gone.
Happy: Something`s cooking. Smells good.
Grumpy: Don`t touch it, you fools! Might be poison. See? It`s witch`s brew.
Doc: Why, the whole place is clean.
Grumpy: There`s dirty work afoot.
Snow White: Want to know a secret? / Promise not to tell? / We are standing by a wishing well / Make a wish into the well / that`s all you have to do / And if you hear it echoing / Your wish will soon come true.
Queen: Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through.
[the poison on the apple forms a skull]
Queen: Look! On the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now, turn red, to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite.
Queen: [offering the apple to the raven] Have a bite?
[the raven flaps wildly, trying to escape]
Queen: [laughing] It`s not for you, it`s for Snow White. When she breaks the tender peel, to taste the apple in my hand, her breath will still, her blood congeal, then I`ll be fairest in the land!
Queen: [Passes the skeleton of a prisoner reaching for a pitcher] Thirsty? Have a drink!
[Kicks the pitcher; the skeleton crumbles and a spider skitters out]
Grumpy: Now, I`m warnin` ya. Don`t let nobody or nothin` in the house.
Snow White: Why, Grumpy, you do care.
[Kisses the reluctant Grumpy in the head]
Bashful: I chased a polecat up a tree / Way out upon a limb / And when he got the best of me / I got the worst of him.
Happy: I`d like to dance and tap my feet / But they won`t keep in rhythm / You see, I washed`em both today / And I can`t do nothin` with `em
Doc: The, uh, Princess will sleep in our beds upstairs.
Snow White: But, where will you sleep?
Doc: Oh, we`ll be quite comfortable down here, in, uh, in, uh...
Grumpy: In a pig`s eye!
Doc: ...in a pig`s eye - sty - No! No! I mean... We`ll be comfortable, won`t we, men?
Grumpy: [During "Someday My Prince Will Come"] Ha! Mush.
Snow White: Oh, I feel strange.
[Starts gasping for air]
Queen: [to herself] Her breath will still. Her blood congeal.
[Snow White drops onto the floor]
Queen: [Cackling] Now I`ll be fairest in the land!
Queen: And since you`ve been so good to poor old Granny, I`ll share a secret with you. This is no ordinary apple. It`s a magic wishing apple.
Snow White: A wishing apple?
Queen: Yes. One bite, and all your dreams will come true.
Snow White: Really?
Queen: Yes, girlie. Now, make a wish, and take a bite.
Queen: All alone, my pet?
Snow White: Why... why, yes, I am, but...
Queen: The... the little men are not here?
Snow White: No, they`re not, but...
Queen: [Sniffing] Mm-hmm. Baking pies?
Snow White: Yes, gooseberry pie.
Queen: It`s apple pies that make the menfolks` mouths water. Pies made from apples like these.
Snow White: Oh, they do look delicious.
Queen: Yes, but wait `till you taste one, dearie. Like to try one? Go on. Go on, have a bite.
Queen: But wait! There may be an antidote. Nothing must be overlooked.
[Reads]
Queen: Ah, here it is! "The Victim of the Sleeping Death can be revived only by Love`s First Kiss." "Love`s First Kiss." Bah! No fear of that. The dwarves will think she`s dead. She`ll be buried alive!
[Cackles]
Queen: Buried alive!
Queen: Now, a formula to transform my beauty into ugliness. Change my queenly rainment to a peddler`s cloak. Mummy dust, to make me old. To shroud my clothes, the black of night. To age my voice, and old hag`s cackle. To whiten my hair, a scream of fright. A blast of wind to fan my hate. A thunderbolt to mix it well. Now, begin thy magic spell.
Grumpy: A fine bunch of water lilies you turned out to be. I`d like to see anybody make me wash, if I didn`t wanna.
Doc: Step up to the tub, `tain`t no disgrace / Just pull up your sleeves and get `em in place / Then scoop up the water and rub it on your face / And go "Bl-bl-bl, bl-bl-bl, bl-bl-bl!"
Doc: Shh! Not so loud. You`ll wake her up.
Grumpy: Ah, let her wake up! She don`t belong here nohow!
Snow White: [Waking up] Oh, dear! I wonder if the children are...
[Sees the dwarves peeking from the edge of the bed]
Snow White: Oh!
[the dwarves hide, then peek again]
Snow White: Why - Why, you`re little men. How do you do?
[No answer]
Snow White: I said, how do you do?
Grumpy: How do ya do what?
Snow White: Oh, you can talk. I`m so glad.
Snow White: Oh! What a cute little chair. Why, there`s seven little chairs. Must be seven little children. And from the look of this table, seven untidy little children.
Snow White: I`m awfully sorry. I didn`t mean to frighten you. But you don`t know what I`ve been through. And all because I was afraid. I`m so ashamed of the fuss I made.
Huntsman: I can`t! I can`t do it! Forgive me. I beg of Your Highness, forgive me.
Snow White: Why, I don`t understand.
Huntsman: She`s mad! Jealous of you! She`ll stop at nothing!
Snow White: But... But who?
Huntsman: The Queen!
Snow White: The Queen?
Huntsman: Now, quick, child, run! Run away, hide! In the woods! Anywhere! Never come back! Now go! Go! Run! Run! Hide!
Queen: Take her far into the forest. Find some secluded glade where she can pick wildflowers.
Huntsman: Yes, Your Majesty.
Queen: And there, my faithful huntsman, you will kill her!
Huntsman: But Your Majesty! The little princess!...
Queen: Silence! You know the penalty if you fail.
Huntsman: Yes, your Majesty.
Queen: But to make doubly sure you do not fail, bring back her heart in this.
Queen: Magic Mirror, on the wall, who, *now*, is the fairest one of all?
Magic Mirror: Over the seven jewelled hills, beyond the seventh fall, in the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, dwells Snow White, fairest of them all.
Queen: Snow White lies dead in the forest. The huntsman has brought me proof. Behold, her heart.
Magic Mirror: Snow white still lives, fairest in the land. `Tis the heart of a pig you hold in your hand.
Queen: The heart of a pig! Then I`ve been tricked!
Queen: Slave in the magic mirror, come from the farthest space, through wind and darkness I summon thee. Speak! Let me see thy face.
Magic Mirror: What wouldst thou know, my Queen?
Queen: Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
Magic Mirror: Famed is thy beauty, Majesty. But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee.
Queen: Alas for her! Reveal her name.
Magic Mirror: Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow.
Queen: Snow White!
Queen: Magic Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
Happy: This is Dopey, he don`t talk none.
Snow White: You mean he can`t talk?
Happy: He don`t know, he never tried.
Snow White: You`re Sleepy!
Sleepy: [Yawning] How`d you guess?
Grumpy: Ask her who she is, and what she`s doing here!
Doc: Ah, yes. What are you, and who are you doing here?
Grumpy: Angel, ha! She`s a female! And all females is poison! They`re full of wicked wiles!
Bashful: What are wicked wiles?
Grumpy: I don`t know, but I`m agin` `em.
Trivia
Fifty ideas for the dwarves` names and personalities were listed in the film`s proposal; the list included all of the names finally included except Dopey and Doc (Dopey being the last to be developed). Some of the dwarves were: Awful, Biggy, Blabby, Dirty, Gabby, Gaspy, Gloomy, Hoppy, Hotsy, Jaunty, Jumpy, Nifty, and Shifty. Sneezy was a last-minute replacement for Jumpy.
The "special" Academy Award granted to the picture consisted of one regular sized award and seven smaller sized awards.
Convinced that it would fail, the Hollywood film industry labeled the film "Disney`s Folly".
Scenes planned, but never fully animated: - The queen holds the prince in the dungeon and uses her magic to make skeletons dance for his amusement. - Fantasy sequence accompanying "Some Day My Prince Will Come" in which Snow White imagines herself dancing with her prince in the clouds beneath a sea of stars - Dwarves building Snow White a coffin with help from woodland creatures. - The song "Music in Your Soup" where the dwarves sing about the soup that Snow White had just made them. - A musical number, "You`re Never Too Old to Be Young", featuring the dwarves. It was pre-recorded, but never animated.
Pinto Colvig, who voiced Sleepy and Grumpy, was the voice of Goofy.
To keep the animators minds working, Walt Disney instituted his "Five Dollars a Gag" policy. One notable example of this policy is when Ward Kimball suggested that the dwarfs` noses should pop one by one over the foot boards while they were peeking at Snow White.
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# The Prince was originally a much more major character, but the difficulty found in animating him convincingly forced the animators to reduce his part significantly.
When comedian Billy Gilbert found out that one of the dwarfs` names was Sneezy he called up Walt and gave him his famous sneezing gag and got the part.
Most of the voice actors reprised their roles for an appearance on "The Lux Radio Theater".
25 songs were written for the movie but only eight were used.
The first full-length animated feature film to come out of the United States. (The first ever were Apóstol, El (1917) and Sin dejar rastros (1918) by Quirino Cristiani but both films are considered lost. The oldest full-length animated feature film that can still be seen today is Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926), which clocks in at 65 minutes, and was animated entirely in silhouette.)
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# Publicity material relates that production employed 32 animators, 102 assistant, 167 "in-betweeners", 20 layout artists, 25 artists doing water color backgrounds, 65 effects animators, and 158 female inkers and painters. 2,000,000 illustrations were made using 1500 shades of paint.
Deanna Durbin auditioned for the voice of Snow White, but was not chosen because Disney felt her voice was too mature.
Dopey initially was to be a talking dwarf, but was made mute when a suitable voice was not found.
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# Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first release in Disney`s new Platinum Edition DVD series, hitting stores on October 5, 2001. On its first day, more than 1 million copies were sold.
Was the first film to ever have a soundtrack recording album released for it.
One of the first films to have related merchandise available at the time of premiere.
At a recording session, Lucille La Verne, the voice of the Wicked Queen, was told by the Disney animators that they needed an older, raspier version of the Queen`s voice for the Old Witch. Ms. Laverne stepped out of the recording booth, returned a few minutes later, and gave a perfect "Old Hag`s voice" that stunned the animators. When asked how she did it, she replied, "Oh, I just took my teeth out."
The British Board of Film Censors (now, the British Board of Film Classification) gave the film an A-certificate upon its original release. This resulted in a nationwide controversy as to whether the enchanted forest and the witch were too frightening for younger audiences. Nevertheless, most local authorities simply overrode the censor`s decision and gave the film a U-certificate.
Held the title of highest grossing film ever for exactly one year, after which it was knocked out of the top spot by Gone with the Wind (1939).
Spoonerizing comedian Joe Twerp was earlier considered for the role of Doc, according to the DVD supplementary material. The part went to Roy Atwell instead, but Twerp did perform as the voice of Doc on the radio.
Sergei M. Eisenstein, director of Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925), called it the "Greatest film ever made."
Sterling Holloway, who later appeared in many Disney films, was considered for the role of Sleepy.
Because Disney did not have its own music publishing company when the earlier animated films were produced, all the rights to publish the music and songs from this film are actually still controlled by the Bourne Co. In later years, the Studio was able to acquire back the rights to the music from all of the other films, except this one. Prior to Snow White, a movie soundtrack recording was unheard of and with little value to a movie studio.
The first animated feature to be selected for the National Film Registry.
It took animator Wolfgang Reitherman nine tries to get the animation of the Slave in the Magic Mirror just right. He achieved it by folding the paper in half, drawing one half of the face, then turning the paper over and tracing the other half. He was then dismayed when his hard work was obscured by fire, smoke and distortion glass for the film.
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# For the scene where the dwarves are sent off to wash, animator Frank Thomas had Dopey do a hitch step to catch up to the others, as suggested in the storyboard. Walt Disney liked it so much he had the step added to other scenes - much to the chagrin of the other animators, who blamed Thomas for the extra work they had to do.
The film came third in the UK`s Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas
Was the first of many Disney films to have its premiere engagement at New York City`s Radio City Music Hall. At the end of the film`s initial engagement there, all the velvet seat upholstery had to be replaced. It seems that young children were so frightened by the sequence of Snow White lost in the forest that they wet their pants, and consequently the seats, at each and every showing of the film.
Walt Disney came up with the idea for "Snow White" when he was only 15, working as a newsboy in Kansas City. He saw a major presentation of a silent film version of the tale starring Marguerite Clark. The screening was held at the city`s Convention Hall in February, 1917, and the film was projected onto a four-sided screen using four separate projectors. The movie made a tremendous impression on the young viewer because he was sitting where he could see two sides of the screen at once, and they were not quite in sync.
Mel Blanc was considered for the voice of Dopey.
The movie was to start with scenes involving Snow White`s mother, but they had to be cut to avoid the wrath of the censor.
Marge Champion served as a movement model for Snow White; some of this animation was later reworked for Maid Marion in Disney`s Robin Hood (1973).
Some animators were opposed to the name Dopey, claiming that it was too modern a word to use in a timeless fairy tale. Walt Disney made the argument that William Shakespeare used the word in one of his plays. This managed to convince everyone, although any reference to the term "dopey" is yet to be found in any of Shakespeare`s work.
Ward Kimball nearly quit after his two main sequences (the dwarfs eating soup and building a bed for Snow White, respectively) were cut. Walt Disney convinced him to stay by giving him the character of Jiminy Cricket in the next feature, Pinocchio (1940).
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# To give Snow White a more natural look, some of the ink and paint artists started applying their own rouge on her cheeks. When Walt Disney asked one how they would apply the rouge correctly for each cel, she responded, "What do you think we`ve been doing all our lives?"
Film Daily- Los Angeles, Thursday, April 6, 1939: Suit was filed yesterday in Supreme Court by Modest Altschuler against RKO Radio Pictures, Walt Disney Enterprises, Walt Disney Productions, Irving Berlin, Inc. and Frank Churchill. Plaintiff asks $250,000 damages, plus injunction and accounting of profits, claiming he is composer of "Russian Soldier`s Song," which he alleges was plagiarized by the Frank Churchill composition
In the original fairy tale, the Queen dies when she is forced to dance in burning metal shoes. Disney dropped the idea.
June 2008] Ranked #1 on the American Film Institute`s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation".
Disney Studios in Burbank was built with the profits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Dancer Marge Champion, whose movements as a dancer were rotoscoped to be used as guide for Snow White, married and divorced one of the Disney animators on the film, `Art Babbit`. She later married, danced and acted on film and stage with famed choreographer and director Gower Champion.
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