Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)/Trivia

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  • Breakthrough Hit: Disney was already famed for the Classic Disney Shorts, but Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs made him a name in the feature-length film business.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Snow White was voiced by Adriana Caselotti, whose contract did not allow her to have other prominent roles. "She was not allowed to perform in other roles after that, nor to make public appearances and perform, saying that they did not want to spoil the illusion of Snow White." But she still got a small singing part in the The Wizard of Oz (1939). During the "If I Only Had a Heart" musical number, Adriana is actually heard saying "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor: Lucille LaVerne as The Queen. If you look at one of her pictures, she looks nicer and friendlier and definitely less intimidating than the evil witch.
  • Money, Dear Boy: A big reason why Disney made this feature was that the Short Film product they made only brought in a set amount of revenue from their distributor regardless of how much audience interest in it. With features however, Disney's company could haul in much more if it proved a hit.
  • Old Shame: In recordings of Walt Disney commenting on the film, he said that after so many people seemed to dislike his films afterwards because none seemed to be as good as Snow White in their opinion, he grew to hate Snow White for a while. Though he eventually came back to loving his masterpiece.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • There were originally intended to be scenes with the Prince imprisoned by the Queen in a dungeon and making a daring escape, which was dropped because the animators were not yet experienced enough to handle the extra work of making a believable human character, what with Snow White and the Queen already taxing their skills. Some of these ideas were eventually used in Sleeping Beauty.
    • Additionally, some of the scenes with the Dwarfs were also cut, mostly to tighten up the story. Best known of these was the "Music in Your Soup" song, which was eventually shown on the Disneyland program in pencil test form. There's also a missing scene where the Dwarves build a bed for Snow White, which turned up in a children's book.
    • All three of the Queen's assassination attempts (poison comb, bodice suffocation and the poison apple) were originally going to be included, but eventually they streamlined it to just the apple instead. The bodice was cut first, and the comb appears in the title card at the beginning.
    • There was also concept art showing that the queen would have shattered the magic mirror upon realizing that Snow White was still alive.
    • Dopey almost made an appearance in "Fantasia" as the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
    • Deanna Durbin auditioned for the voice of Snow White, but was not chosen because Walt Disney felt her voice was too mature.
    • Two video games based on the franchise were developed, namely an Atari 2600 title and a Darker and Edgier action RPG spin-off entitled Dwarfs, slated to be a prequel to the film and was to be developed for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The former was presumably canned due to the The Great Video Game Crash of 1983, and the latter most likely never saw anything other than a pitch to Disney bigwigs.
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