Lucille La Verne – Evil Queen, Evil Crone
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Lucille La Verne (November 8, 1872 – March 4, 1945) was an American actress known for her appearances in silent, scolding, and vengeful roles in early color films, as well as for her triumphs on the American stage.
She made her motion picture debut in 1914. Her best known part is that of the voice of the Wicked Queen, and her alter ego, the old crone from Disney’s 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first ever animated feature. She was also the Disney artists’ model for the old crone that the Queen transforms herself into in order to give Snow White the poisoned apple. (Her resemblance to the crone can be noted in Little Caesar (1931), in which Ms. La Verne plays Ma Magdelena, as well as MGM’s film version of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, in which she plays a confederate of Madame Defarge called The Vengeance.) For her voice over performance in Snow White, she was voted #10 in the American Film Institute’s list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time.
Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .
Snow White takes the apple but is transfixed by the wart on the crone’s nose
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Given the photo I can only assume old Walt drew the crone as a direct likeness?
Now that is one ugly old broad! I reckon she was very probably a great actrss and a beautiful lady in reality.
I’ll never forget that “wicked queen” voice. Still makes my hair stand on end 🙂
Don’t forget Mercedes McCambridge either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_McCambridge
Yes SJ, she was Linda Blair’s devil voice.