Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/Trivia

Trivia

 * The names of the dwarves (Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy) were created for this production, chosen from a pool of about fifty potentials.


 * Snow White and her dwarf friends made a silhouetted cameo appearance in the 2004 movie The Lion King 1½. They can be seen at the near end, walking to their seats in the theater.


 * The movie's title uses the word "dwarfs" which was the traditional plural of "dwarf". The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, published in three volumes from July 29, 1954 to October 20, 1955, instead popularised the spelling "dwarves". Both plural forms have been used interchangeably since then.


 * A version with live actors based on the film, titled Snow White: The Fairest of Them All and starring Kristin Kreuk, was made in 2003.


 * A live action martial arts version, called Snow and the Seven came out in 2006.


 * Upon seeing the film, Russian director Sergei Eisenstein called it the greatest ever made.


 * The song, "Someday My Prince Will Come" has become a jazz standard that has been performed by numerous artists, including Buddy Rich, Oscar Peterson, and Miles Davis.


 * There are numerous popular ideas as to the presence of occult significance or symbolism within the movie, mostly centered around the dwarves themselves. For example, one theory holds that the seven dwarves correspond to the seven chakras (or chakras), and that Snow White represents consciousness moving through them. Other ideas are less philosophically complex, such as correspondences to the altered states of consciousness inherent in the use of particular drugs. In one theory, Snow White is cocaine, which causes exhaustion (Sleepy), mood swings (Happy, Grumpy), allergies (Sneezy) and alteration of personality (Bashful, Dopey) eventually resulting in a trip to the doctor (Doc).