snow-white

• Director: J. Searle Dawley
• AMG Rating:
• Release Year: 1916
• Country: US

Plot

Before becoming a silent screen star, Marguerite Clark played Snow White on the stage, and Famous Players eventually had her do the screen version. It's the classic Grimm fairy tale, with a few additions (at one point Santa Claus makes an appearance!): The evil Queen (Dorothy G. Cumming) wants Snow White (Clark) dead when Prince Florimund (Creighton Hale) falls in love with her. Berthold the huntsman (Lionel Braham), her supposed killer, instead spirits her off to the forest where she finds the home of the seven dwarfs. The Queen, discovering the job hasn't been done, makes a couple of attempts to poison her, both of which are unsuccessful. The Prince gets Snow White, and the Queen's magic mirror is smashed, reducing her to the ugly hag she really was all along. Famous Players put a lot of effort into this production and released it Christmas week of 1916, but reviews were mixed. It took a couple of decades and an animated version by Walt Disney for the real charm of this fairy tale to reach the screen. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Review

When told that the handsome foreign prince (Creighton Hale) has fallen in love with someone other than his intended, Dorothy Cumming's narcissistic Queen Bragomar responds with a kittenish "Oh, my poor boy! Really, I'm so much older than you." Cumming, who later proved so mean to Lillian Gish in The Wind (1929), obviously took on Famous-Players' screen version of Snow White in the spirit that playwright Winthrop Ames had intended, as a sly burlesque on the Brothers Grimm. Marguerite Clark, in contrast, played her title role completely straight and it is hard to believe at this late day and age that she at one time had been a serious competitor to Mary Pickford. One thing is for certain: "America's Sweetheart" would never have allowed herself to be as lifeless as Clark's star-crossed princess. Yes, Marguerite smiles pleasantly and wrings her hands appropriately in despair but hers is a Christmas Pageant version of a fairy tale heroine, never the real thing. Even if future discoveries may yet explain Marguerite Clark's nearly unprecedented popularity in the mid to late 1910s, Snow White remains a stilted version of a beloved Broadway play that does little to enhance the reputation of its dainty leading lady. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Cast

Lionel Braham - Berthold, the huntsman; Marguerite Clark - Snow White; Major Criqui - Dwarf; Dorothy Cumming - Queen Brangomar/Mary Jane; Major Doyle - Dwarf; Irwin Emmer - A Dwarf; Addie Frank - Dwarf; Creighton Hale - Prince Florimond; Billy Platt - A Dwarf; Herb Rice - A Dwarf; Jimmy Rosen - A Dwarf; Alice Washburn - Hex, the witch; Ian James Wrigt

Credit

J. Searle Dawley - Director, Lyman Broening - Producer

(snō'hwīt', -wīt')
adj.
Pure white; white as snow.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the white color of snow
  Synonym: snowy

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - snehvid

Nederlands (Dutch)
sneeuwwit

Français (French)
adj. - blanc comme la neige, Blanche-neige

Deutsch (German)
adj. - schneeweiß

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κατάλευκος

Italiano (Italian)
Biancaneve, bianco come la neve

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - branco como a neve, níveo

Русский (Russian)
белоснежный, белизна, белоснежная шерсть, цинковые белила

Español (Spanish)
adj. - blanco como la nieve, níveo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - snövit, vit som snö

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
雪白的, 纯白的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 雪白的, 純白的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 눈같이 흰, 새하얀

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 雪のように白い, 純白の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أبيض كالثلج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לבן כשלג, צח, צחור‬

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