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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is Disney's 1st Animated Feature!

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own. The dwarfs grow to love their unexpected visitor, who cleans their house and cooks their meals. But one day while the dwarfs are at their diamond mine, the Queen arrives at the cottage disguised as an old peddler woman and persuades Snow White to bite into a poisoned apple. The dwarfs, warned by the forest animals, rush home to chase the witch away, but they are too late to save Snow White from the poisoned apple. They place her in a glass coffin in the woods and mourn for her. The Prince, who has fallen in love with Snow White, happens by and awakens her from the wicked Queen's deathlike spell with "love's first kiss."

Directed by: David Hand
Written by: Dorothy Ann Blank & Richard Creedon
Music by: Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Larry Morey, Paul J. Smith
Released on: December 21, 1937
Running Time: 83 minutes
Budget: $500,000
Box-Office: $184.925 million in the U.S. ($41.634 million of which come from the 1993 re-release)
Note: Snow White earned $8 millions in its first release, a phenomenal sum at the time, considering the average price for theater admission in the United States was 25 cents -and a heavy percentage of those seeing Snow White were children admitted for a dime.

CAST
Snow White... Adriana Caselotti
Prince... Harry Stockwell
The Queen/WitchMoroni... Lucille La Verne
Magic Mirror... Olsen
Sneezy... Billy Gilbert (I)
Sleepy & Grumpy... Pinto Colvig
Happy... Otis Harlan
Bashful... Scotty Mattraw
Doc... Roy Atwell
Huntsman... Stuart Buchanan

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