“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”

A fairy tale in the Grimm collection, about a beautiful young princess whose jealous stepmother tries to kill her. She avoids being killed and hides in a forest cottage occupied by dwarfs. The stepmother finds out where Snow White is, visits her in disguise, and gives her a poisoned apple; Snow White eats it and falls into a deathlike sleep. When a prince kisses her, she awakens from her sleep, and he marries her.

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Notes

The wicked stepmother consults a magical mirror several times throughout the story, often asking it, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”

In the 1930s, Walt Disney made a very popular animated film adaptation of the story of Snow White.

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This was not a mere friend dressed up for Halloween or a cast member at Disneyland but the actual actress who voiced the character in Disney's 1937 animated classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

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In another Hollis and Sibley book, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the Making of the Classic Film,” she recounts that she once lost her luggage on one of those trips.

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The revamp of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became a flashpoint for social and political divisions, even before its global release.

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Once upon a time, Disney set out to remake the classic film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the latest in a long line of classic animated Disney stories which have been remade as live-action films.

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