Paramount's Snow White (1916)

Walt Disney always cited seeing this silent film version of Snow White as being the inspiration for his own adaptation of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Walt saw this film as a boy in Kansas City at a screening held for the newspaper boys. The film was an adaptation of a 1912 stage play and used much of the same cast. Snow White was distributed by Paramount Pictures and it may surprise you in just how lavish of a fantasy film this was for the time. This film was once believed lost but a nearly complete print was discovered in Europe in 1992. It's fortunate we can look back and see this century plus year old film and see what influenced Walt Disney to create the worlds first animated feature.

Starring

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
May Robson as Witch Hex
Kate Lester as a dowager queen

Written by Winthrop Ames

Directed by J. Searle Dawley

Release date December 25, 1916

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