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Snow White

  • 19161916
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 3m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
415
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Snow White (1916)
FantasyRomance
Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
415
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    • J. Searle Dawley
  • Writers
    • Winthrop Ames(by)
    • Jacob Grimm(story)
    • Wilhelm Grimm(story)
  • Stars
    • Dorothy Cumming
    • Creighton Hale
    • Lionel Braham
    • J. Searle Dawley
  • Writers
    • Winthrop Ames(by)
    • Jacob Grimm(story)
    • Wilhelm Grimm(story)
  • Stars
    • Dorothy Cumming
    • Creighton Hale
    • Lionel Braham
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    • 14User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Marguerite Clark in Snow White (1916)
    Marguerite Clark and Dorothy Cumming in Snow White (1916)
    Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale in Snow White (1916)
    Marguerite Clark in Snow White (1916)
    Marguerite Clark in Snow White (1916)
    Marguerite Clark in Snow White (1916)

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    Dorothy Cumming
    Dorothy Cumming
    • Queen Brangomar
    • (as Dorothy G. Cumming)
    Creighton Hale
    Creighton Hale
    • Prince Florimond
    Lionel Braham
    Lionel Braham
    • Berthold - the Huntsman
    Alice Washburn
    • Witch Hex
    Marguerite Clark
    Marguerite Clark
    • Snow White
    Richard Barthelmess
    Richard Barthelmess
    • Pie Man
    • (uncredited)
    Arthur Donaldson
    Arthur Donaldson
    • King
    • (uncredited)
    Irwin Emmer
    • Dwarf
    • (uncredited)
    Addie E. Frank
      Billy Platt
      • Dwarf
      • (uncredited)
      Herbert Rice
      • Dwarf
      • (uncredited)
      Jimmy Rosen
      • Dwarf
      • (uncredited)
        • J. Searle Dawley
      • Writers
        • Winthrop Ames(by)
        • Jacob Grimm(story) (uncredited)
        • Wilhelm Grimm(story) (uncredited)
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      • Trivia
        The first movie Walt Disney ever saw.
      • Goofs
        A crew member's shadow is visible on the ground in front of Snow White after Berthold the Huntsman leaves her in the forest.
      • Alternate versions
        Original release prints contained, according to a review by Variety, a sequence in which a stork delivers the infant Snow White to her mother, is not in the Treasures from American Film Archives print.
      • Connections
        Featured in The Walt Disney Story (1973)

      User reviews14

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      10/10
      This is the most charming version of the Grimm's tale ever done!!!
      The 1916 film of "Snow White" is a screen adaptation of the 1912 Broadway play, written by Jessie Braham White. It tells the familiar tale of the "Stepmother from Hell" and the princess with "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as night". It was thought to have been lost, until the George Eastman House located a print in a Danish film vault.....and the film world is so lucky they did!

      Marguerite Clark recreates her Broadway role as "Snow White", and must have been born to play this faerie tale heroine!!! She is the epitome of this character!!!! I only wish that I was alive in 1912 to see her do the role live on stage.

      Creighton Hale (The Cat and the Canary) is dashing as Prince Florimond, Snow White's love interest. It is a thankless role, but he manages to shine.

      Dorothy Cumming is the vain "Queen Brangomar", Snow White's nemisis. It's ironic that years later she would play the "Virgin Mary" in "King of Kings".....quite a turn around!!!

      The rest of the cast handles their roles equally as well as the above mentioned......including Lionel Braham (A Christmas Carol) as "Berthold the Huntsman", and Alice Washburn as "Witch Hex".

      Hollywood folklore says that this is the film that inspired Walt Disney to create his animated classic. The similarities between the two are amazing! In the opening of the 1916 film, Snow White is a kitchen maid, going about her daily duties.....very much like Disney's heroine scrubbing the castle steps and crooning to doves. A little brown bird shows Snow White the way to the dwarfs' cottage....just like the animated animals did for her in the cartoon. She also cleans up the cottage, in both versions, before the dwarfs come home, and then falls asleep.

      I highly recommend seeking out a copy of this film!!!!
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      • oznickolaus
      • Oct 25, 2000

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      • Release date
        • December 25, 1916 (United States)
        • United States
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        • English
      • Also known as
        • Georgia, USA
      • Production company
        • Famous Players Film Company
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      Technical specs

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      • 1 hour 3 minutes
        • Black and White
        • Silent

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