3/18/2023 0 Comments The seven dwarfs![]() “Snow White Island” (sometimes referred to as “Dwarfland” in the publicity of the time) was built in 1937 for the premiere of the film at the Carthay Circle theater in Los Angeles.ĭuring the film’s four month run at the theater, it was estimated that over half a million people visited Snow White Island that was located in the street just a couple blocks down from the theater. When was the first time that the Disney Company built a replica of the Seven Dwarfs’ Mine for the general public to enjoy? Who is the only dwarf with white bushy eyebrows? Who is the only dwarf to wear glasses? Which dwarf is not kissed goodbye by Snow White at the end of the film? Which dwarfs do not have a beard? (Answers at the bottom of the column.)ġ. In a 1953 interview in McCalls magazine, Walt’s wife told the interviewer she tried to talk her husband out of making Snow White because “no one would want to go see a movie with dwarfs.” It always makes me laugh when Caesar calls Walt Disney in Hollywood and Walt doesn’t know if there is a dwarf named “Weepy” in the film. It is always a trivia question to name all seven dwarfs but my favorite “take” on that is the Your Show of Show ten minute skit called “The Seven Dwarfs Bet” with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner Nanette Fabray and Howard Morris where they can’t remember one of the names of the dwarfs. However, in over seven decades, no one has found that word in any Shakespearean texts. Walt replied that the word appeared in the works of Shakespeare and they relented. Some animators did not like Walt’s selection of the name “Dopey” thinking it was too modern. ![]() Walt wanted names that would reflect their individual personalities and over six dozen choices were proposed including Thrifty, Shifty, Nifty, Hotsy, Jumpy, Blabby, Burpy, Weepy, and Snoopy. Walt usually referred to them as “little men” instead of “dwarfs”. In the original story, the dwarfs were unnamed.
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