Daily Dialogue — June 27, 2010

Queen: Slave in the magic mirror, come from the farthest space, through wind and darkness I summon thee. Speak! Let me see thy face. 
 Magic Mirror: What wouldst thou know, my Queen? 
 Queen: Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? 
 Magic Mirror: Famed is thy beauty, Majesty. But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee. 
 Queen: Alas for her! Reveal her name. 
 Magic Mirror: Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow. 
 Queen: Snow White!

 — Queen (Lucille La Verne), Magic Mirror (Moroni Olsen), Snow White (1937), story adaptation by Ted Sears & Richard Creedon & Otto Englander & Dick Rickard & Earl Hurd & Merrill De Maris & Dorothy Ann Blank & Webb Smith, based on fairy tales by Wilhelm Grimm & Jacob Grimm

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is animated movies.

Trivia: Fifty ideas for the dwarfs’ names and personalities were listed in the film’s proposal; the list included all of the names finally included except Dopey and Doc (Dopey being the last to be developed). Some of the dwarfs were: Awful (“He steals and drinks and is very dirty”), Biggy, Blabby, Deefy, Dirty, Gabby, Gaspy, Gloomy, Hoppy-Jumpy, Hotsy, Jaunty, Nifty, and Shifty. Sneezy was a last-minute replacement for Deefy.
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