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Snow White is a
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and a main character from Walt Disney Productions' first animated feature film ''
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection '' Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as ...
'' (1937). She was originally voiced by Adriana Caselotti. The character of Snow White was derived from a
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known from many countries in Europe with the best-known version being the 1812 tale collected by the
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. Snow White is the first Disney Princess and the first fictional female character with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Given the title the "Fairest One of All", she has continued to inspire similar traits in future Disney heroines, such as singing and communicating with animals. After Caselotti, she has also been voiced by Jane Powell,
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,
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, June Foray,
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, Carolyn Gardner, Melissa Disney, Katie Von Til, and Pamela Ribon, and portrayed live by Stephanie Bennett ('' Descendants'').
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will portray a live-action version of the character in the upcoming live-action adaptation of the original 1937 film.


Appearances


In ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''

Snow White first appears in the film ''
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'' (1937). In "another land, far away," "many, many years ago," about the time of
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s of castles, knights, fair maidens, romance, magic and witches," a mysterious and icily beautiful woman with magical powers (a 1938 promotional brochure suggests that she is able to work her
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having sold "herself body and soul to the bad spirits" of Germany's
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mountains) has gained her royal position by marrying the widowed
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, giving her rule over his kingdom before he died. "From that time on the cruel Queen ruled all alone, her every word was law, and all trembled in mortal fear of her anger." The vain Queen owned a magical mirror with which she could look upon whatever she wished. The Magic Mirror shows a haunted, smokey face of her familiar demon which replies to the Queen's requests. She regularly asks the mirror who is the fairest in the realm ("Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" which is often misquoted as "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all"), and the mirror would always reply that she is. The Queen has magical power only over her own domain, which is the castle. In the film, Snow White is initially depicted as living under her wicked, vain stepmother, the Evil Queen, who forces Snow White to engage in menial labor, fearing that one day Snow White's beauty might become greater than her own. After many years, the Queen's Magic Mirror confirms Snow White as being the "fairest of them all", which causes the Queen to cast Snow White out and send a huntsman to kill her. But when he is unable to bring himself to do so, the huntsman helps Snow White escape into the forest. Snow White stumbles upon the home of the Seven Dwarfs, who happily aid her. The Queen discovers that Snow White has survived, so she uses magic to disguise herself as an old hag and creates a poisoned apple that will put anyone who eats it into a “Sleeping Death" from which only the kiss of true love will revive. When the dwarfs are away the hag arrives at the dwarfs’ cottage and offers Snow White the poisoned apple, unbeknownst to her that it is the Queen in disguise. Snow White bites into the apple and falls into a coma. Upon discovering what had happened, the dwarfs track down the Queen; a short fight ensues and the Queen is killed. Believing her dead too, the dwarfs build an open grave for Snow White to rest on. Time passes and the Prince comes across Snow White. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, causing her to awaken. As the Seven Dwarfs dance with joy, Snow White and the Prince go off to live together happily ever after.


Other appearances

Actress and dancer JoAnn Dean Killingsworth became the first person to portray Snow White at
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in 1955. She was hired to play Snow White for Disneyland's opening on July 17, 1955. Killingsworth's Snow White was the only Disney Princess to have own float during Disneyland's first parade down Main Street, U.S.A. on opening day. Since Killingsworth's 1955 debut as Snow White, more than 100 actresses have played the character at Disneyland. Snow White's Scary Adventures is a dark ride dedicated to the princess and her story at the Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris theme parks. Located in
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, it is one of the few remaining attractions operational on Disneyland's opening day in 1955. The ride was closed in Disney World in May 2012 as part of the New Fantasyland expansion. She also makes appearances at Cinderella's Royal Table in
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and at the Akershus Restaurant in
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. In California, Snow White can be found at the Princess Meet-and-Greet in Fantasyland at Disneyland Park, on Main Street U.S.A., by the Wishing Well next to the Castle or at
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in California Adventure. In Disneyland Paris, Snow White can often be at the Princess Pavilion in Fantasyland or at Auberge de Cendrillon in Disneyland Park. In Hong Kong, she is often up by the Wishing Well. In Tokyo, Snow White appears often in Fantasyland or World Bazaar. On '' Disney Cruise Line'', Snow White sometimes appears, depending on a sailing. Snow White is an official member of the Disney Princess line, a prominent franchise directed at young girls. The franchise covers a wide variety of merchandise, including but not limited to magazines, music albums, toys, clothes, and stationery. Aside from appearing in video games related to the Disney Princess franchise media as well as appearances on the television show ''
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'', Snow White also appears in the popular '' Kingdom Hearts'' series as one of the Disney Princesses of Heart. She first appears in the first '' Kingdom Hearts'' as a Princess of Heart captured by Maleficent. She reprises her role from the film in the video game '' Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''. Snow White also appears in the video game ''
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'' which includes multiple furniture and costume items related to the character, and is also a playable character in '' Disney Magic Kingdoms''. Mary Jo Salerno originated the role of Snow White in the 1970s musical adaptation. In a season six episode of the sitcom series '' Full House'' known as ''The House Meets The Mouse Parts 1 & 2'', Snow White appeared in Part 2. Snow White also had cameos in the films ''
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'' (1988) where she appears in the Toontown scene and at the end of the film with the toons and '' The Lion King 1½'' (2004) where she, Seven Dwarfs, and other disney characters came to rewatch the film with Timon and Pumbaa. In 2014, Snow White made a guest appearance on '' Sofia the First'', in "The Enchanted Feast". She tells Sofia about how her stepmother tricked her by assuming a disguise, helping Sofia to determine that a visiting sorceress is actually an old foe, Miss Nettle. Snow White, alongside other Disney Princesses, appeared in the film '' Ralph Breaks the Internet''. She, along with the other Princesses, are portrayed in what ''
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'' described as a parody of the "Disney Princess Industrial Complex", and are later seen wearing modern outfits inspired by their respective backstories. In the ABC television series '' Once Upon a Time'', an alternative version of Snow White is the daughter of King Leopold and Queen Eva and later stepdaughter of the Evil Queen ( Regina Mills). She is the true love of Prince Charming, mother of Emma Swan and Prince Neal, and grandmother of Emma's son Henry. In Storybrooke, she appears as Mary Margaret Blanchard, Henry Mills' teacher at Storybrooke Elementary School. She is set to be played by
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in Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of the animated film.


Books


''The Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen''

Snow White is present in the first book of the Disney Villains series by
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. In ''Fairest of All'', Snow White plays a minor role, as the story is more focused on her stepmother. In the story, Snow and the Queen have a very good relationship before the Odd Sisters enchant the Magic Mirror to cause the Queen's jealousy and hatred of Snow. At the end of the novel Snow obtains the mirror and her stepmother becomes the spirit inside.


''Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy''

Snow White reappears as an older Queen in the fourth book of the Villains series. In the story, she is a queen, is still happily married to her Prince and she bore him children. She also meets Circe for the first time and helps her uncover secrets about her past. It is revealed as well that Maleficent was assigned Snow White as a charge during her wish granting fairy test, and in order to help Snow White destroyed the mirror that contained Grimhilde's father's wicked spirit to free Grimhilde from her misery and allow her to return to the loving stepmother Snow White knew.


''Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch''

Queen Snow White appears alongside Circe. She alongside Circe follows Gothel's journey in the storybook kept by the Odd Sisters.


''The Odd Sisters: A Villain's Novel''

Snow White features prominently in the sixth book in the Villains series. Alongside Circe the two of them set out to discover the truth about the Odd Sisters' origins as well as set to rights the trouble and chaos they caused. Along the way they encounter several previous characters in the novels. It isn't until they go to the Dead Woods and encounter Primrose and Hazel that they discover the truth of the Odd Sisters, that they were split into three individual witches by Manea's mother, Nestis, a powerful witch. The babies were taken by Jacob, Manea's former lover and now undead servant, to be given to the White family, where they were raised. A one on one encounter with the Odd Sisters results in the pulling of Grimhilde's spirit from the mirror, where she shatters and dies in front of Snow White. A shaken Snow White then watches as Circe kills herself in front of the Odd Sisters, dying in Snow White's arms despite her pleas.


''Mirror Mirror: A Twisted Tale''

In the fifth novel of the series, the question is asked ''What if the Evil Queen poisoned the Prince?'' In this retelling, Snow White becomes a warrior princess determined to overthrow her tyrannical stepmother, who poisons Prince Charming to lure her out of hiding.


Characteristics

Snow White is a princess, described by her stepmother's Magic Mirror as having "hair as black as ebony, lips as red as the rose, skin as white as snow." Though she is first seen in rags at the film's beginning, Snow White is most well known for her iconic dress with a blue bodice, puffy red and blue striped sleeves, an ankle-length yellow skirt with a self-sewn white petticoat and a high white collar. Along with yellow shoes, a brown cape with a red interior, and a red bow in her hair. Snow White is innocent, kind, gentle, sweet, and cheerful. Her generous, trusting and helpful nature can cause her trouble, as other people might take advantage of it, such as her vain and evil stepmother. Although she is sensitive and soft-spoken, she can be energetic, stern and sarcastic to a degree, such as when she told the Dwarfs to wash their hands or when she scolded the birds for "frightening the poor old lady he Queen disguised as an old peddler woman. Snow White is motherly, compassionate and delights in keeping house for the lovable Seven Dwarfs while she waits to meet her beloved prince again. With her kindness and ethereal beauty, Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except the Queen. She also shows great resilience and an inner strength against adversity.


Description

In the original film, Snow White is depicted with
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bobbed hair,
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and skin as white as snow. She wears subtle make-up and rouge. The red color of her lips and cheeks resembles the red color of the apple which sends her into a deep sleep. She is not yet an adult woman, but a girl in her
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years. Her plump face is a characteristic typically associated with good health and kindness. Snow White's clothing is traditionally feminine, and rather
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in covering as much skin as possible. Her main costume is a long dress, with a white collar, blue and puffy
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s with red slashing, a yellow skirt, and a laced petticoat. She also wears a brown cape with a red interior, high-heeled shoes with a bow-like ribbon on each of them, and a red ribbon on her hair.


Development

Animators' initial sketches for Snow White's character, some of which bore a resemblance to Betty Boop, did not meet
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's expectations, as they were too cartoonish. Hamilton Luske, whom Disney had selected as the supervising animator for Snow White's character, was tasked with the challenge of making Snow White more believably human and realistic than any of the Disney studio's previous animated characters. This was a challenge Luske and co-animator Les Clark had previously been asked to explore while developing the character of
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for the '' Silly Symphonies'' animated short '' The Goddess of Spring''. Of that project, Les Clark later remarked, "I'm sure Walt was thinking ahead to ''Snow White''." Though the Persephone character ended up appearing somewhat lifeless and devoid of personality, that experiment in imitating realistic human movement and anatomy was continued and its lessons were applied in the development of Snow White's animation techniques. Snow White and the Queen were refined by Grim Natwick and Norm Ferguson, who would often override Walt Disney's instructions as well as Charlie Thorson. The relatively new technique of using live-action footage as a reference for character movements was used extensively to bring Snow White's character to life. A young dancer named Marge Champion (nicknamed Margie Bell) served as the live-action model for Snow White. (Margie Bell, daughter of animator Ernest Belcher, also later modeled for the Blue Fairy character in Disney's 1940 film '' Pinocchio''.) Hamilton Luske directed her through the filming of numerous movement sequences, and then the animators studied and copied the footage to enhance the realism of Snow White's animated movements. Animator Ollie Johnston later recalled, "Ham's careful planning and shooting of the live-action footage, always with the idea in mind of how it would be used in animation, resulted in a very convincing character." Originally, Disney could not find what they thought was a suitable voice for Snow White. Around 150 girls auditioned for the role of Snow White, including well-known actresses such as Deanna Durbin, whose voice seemed too old to Disney. One assistant to Disney called music teacher Guido Caselotti, complaining that Hollywood had no singing girls. Caselotti wanted to offer to send their best to listen to the students, but it turned out that his 20-year-old daughter Adriana Caselotti overheard a conversation on another phone in the house, and she began to sing in a young girl's voice. Her father was confused and told his daughter to get away from the phone, but the casting director liked her voice and invited her to audition. After Walt Disney heard her, he immediately gave her the role.Snow White Character History
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The studio signed a multi-page contract with Adriana Caselotti: she was forbidden to sing in a movie or on the radio before or after the movie premiered because Walt Disney did not want the voice of Snow White to be heard anywhere else. Instead, she received $970 (now worth approximately $).


Setting

While the film never states the location of its story, "the dwarfs’ home is decorated with carved wooden furniture and instruments". This home is surrounded by mountains and an extensive forest. These details suggest a location within the
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of
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, where there is a tradition of wood carving. BuzzFeed views Snow White as a German woman, and suggests that a "historically accurate" Snow White would have been raised within the "austere and religious" culture of the
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in the 16th century.


Reception


Critical reception

Critical reception towards the character of Snow White has been polarized. ''
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'' described Snow White as iconic, unique and incomparable, writing, "never again would Walt's heroine have such a fantasy singing voice, and for that reason, she's the favorite heroine of many animation auteurs." Calling Snow White a "fairy-tale princess," Otis Ferguson of ''
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'' simply described the character as "just what you would have her." '' Variety'''s John C. Flinn deemed Snow White "the embodiment of girlish sweetness and kindness, exemplified in her love for the birds and the small animals of the woods that are her friends and, as it subsequently develops, her rescuers." Contemporary critics felt that Snow White "lack nerve, unlike many later Disney heroines," while her relationship with the Prince is void of chemistry.
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of the ''
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'' felt that had "''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' ... been primarily about Snow White, it might have been forgotten soon after its 1937 premiere, and treasured today only for historical reasons." Ebert continued, "Snow White is, truth to tell, a bit of a bore, not a character who acts but one whose mere existence inspires others to act," describing Disney's tendency to "confuse the titles of his movies with their subjects" as a "mistake" as the film is more about the dwarfs and the Evil Queen than Snow White. ''
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'''s Desson Howe wrote, "the spirit in the mirror is dead wrong: The Wicked Queen ... is the fairest in the land" while Snow White lacks "real estate." ''
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'' opined, "Snow White herself might be felt to be almost unbearably winsome."


Awards

Snow White's big role is in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' where she plays a young princess who tries and escape her evil stepmother. The character won many awards for her role like the Grand Biennale Art Trophy from the
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, the New York Film Critics Circle, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. There was also an honorary custom-made
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with the standard Oscar statuette and seven small statuettes that represented the seven dwarfs. Snow White is one of the few fictional characters with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


Trademark

On June 18, 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted the trademark application of Disney Enterprises, Inc. (filed November 19, 2008), for the name "Snow White" that covers all live and recorded movie, television, radio, stage, computer, Internet, news, and photographic entertainment uses, except literature works of fiction and nonfiction.


Cultural impact and significance

''Snow White'' is the first Disney Princess ever and is also the pioneer of the Disney Princess franchise. Her character provided the basis for later heroines in
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fairy tales to come. Widely referred as the ''“fairest one of all”'', Film Magazine hailed Snow White as the Best Disney Princess ever, saying: “''Snow White'' is the pioneer of the Disney Princess, and she is probably the most memorable. She embodies everything you think of when you think of a princess, pure innocence, beauty, kindness and grace.”
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listed her as one of the most famous fictional princesses of all time.
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ranked ''Snow White'' as the 3rd Best Disney Princess of all time. Teen Vogue also included her on their list of Top 10 Best Disney Princesses of All Time, saying: “''Snow White'' showed us that you can make friends in unlikely places and that you should never let go of your optimism.” In 1987, ''Snow White'' became the first female fictional character to receive a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was voted as the Most popular Disney Princess in
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, and was also voted as Great Britain's most loved Princess in 2018. Time Magazine ranked her as the 3rd Most Popular Disney Princess (in terms of the amount they’ve earned on
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since May 2013). Furthermore, ''Snow White'' is also the most successful Disney Princess in terms of office revenue.


Fashion

Art historian Carmenita Higginbotham explains how Walt Disney's Snow White became a reflection of American women during the
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saying: “Snow White is the perfect embodiment of 1930s culture.”
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also discussed how cartoon characters like ''Snow White'' influenced fashion. A Cartier charm bracelet, originally created in 1937 to commemorate Disney’s first animated film, earned more than five times the high-end of its pre-sale estimate. In 2014, Valentino released an entire Snow White-inspired collection “''Red Valentino''”, a diffusion line aimed to attract youth culture. In 2018,
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released their third collaboration with Disney called “A Dark Fairytale Collection”, which features iconography from both " Sleeping Beauty" and "
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." Stylist included ''Snow White's'' dark bob and pale skin as an “ideal” on their list of Best Beauty Looks in Disney. Sennet Frères released a bridalwear collection in collaboration with Disney, inspired by Snow White, Cinderella and Belle.


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