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Snow White (1916 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Snow White' is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was adapted by Winthrop Ames from his own 1912 Broadway play 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale (as collected by the Grimm brothers). The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage role.
Fifteen years old when he saw it, Walt Disney was inspired to make it the subject of his first feature-length animated film in 1937.
Cast
*Marguerite Clark as Snow White
*Creighton Hale as Prince Florimond
*Dorothy Cumming as Queen Brangomar
*Lionel Braham as Berthold the Huntsman
*Alice Washburn as Witch Hex (*see below)
*Richard Barthelmess as Pie Man
*Arthur Donaldson as King
*Irwin Emmer as Dwarf
*Billy Platt as Dwarf
*Herbert Rice as Dwarf
*Jimmy Rosen as Dwarf
'uncredited'
*May Robson as Witch Hex (she replaced originally scheduled Alice Washburn)
*Kate Lester as a dowager queen
Preservation status
Formerly thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire and presumed lost, a "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House.
Home media
'Snow White' is included in the boxed DVD set 'Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films' (2000).
See also
*1916 in film
References
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