Snow White is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. Winthrop Ames adapted it from his own 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale (as collected by the Brothers Grimm). The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage role.
Having seen the film at the age of fifteen, Walt Disney was inspired to use the Brothers Grimm fairy tale as the subject of his first feature-length animated film in 1937.
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Cast
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
uncredited
May Robson as Witch Hex (she replaced originally scheduled Alice Washburn)
Kate Lester as a dowager queen
Preservation status
Formerly thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire and presumed lost, a "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House.
Home media
Snow White is included in the boxed DVD set Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2000).