Help: Name of the witch in Snow white?

[honeybee30]

I always thought of her as the Wicked Queen form Snow White, too. Isn't that her name in the movie?

 

[codygirl5150]

I think she is the "Evil Queen". My mom, sis and I are ordering shirts for our trip from DisneyDirect.com and they have a picture of her and under it says "Evil Queen".

 

[resol37]

I have a photo of my friend Alfredo standing in front of the Villian's store in Studios. The entire display is of this queen (she is his favorite character) and all the merch says Wicked Queen on it.

 

[mybgirl]

This is who I will be, for the party. I better know her name



THANK YOU





MARY

 

[mattsdragon]

She does have a real name. I believe it starts with a Q (not Queen), I've seen it before, but it's escaping me right now. If anybody would know, it would probably be Robo.

 

[Evil Queen]

I've always thought it was Evil Queen and the Snow Hag.

Our autograph book she signed "The Queen" ( which we got Wed. at MGM)

 

[Donold_Fan]

I've never seen her as the queen...I'll have to keep my eyes out this week.

 

[Lora]

I would have said "Wicked Queen". Doesn't Doc call her the "quicked ween" when he gets his words all jumbled up?

 

[White as Snow]

The way I've always understood it, the Joan Crawford/purple dress and crown character is the Evil/Wicked Queen. The crook nosed hag is the Wicked Witch. Yes, it's the same woman, but it's a Jekyll and Hyde type of thing. Also, the same woman voiced both characters, which is why there is no differentiation on fan sites. That's the understanding of a life-long Snow White fanatic.

 

[DarrenR71]

Lucille La Verne is the name apprently

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. 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.

 

[Brian_WDW74]

From the official Disney Archives site:

Fiercely beautiful, the Wicked Queen has reached an age where her radiance is fading. Insanely jealous of her lovely young stepdaughter, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid in the hope that drudgery will tarnish the girl's blossoming beauty. When the Magic Mirror reveals that Snow White has finally become "more fair than thee," she plots the girl's death in a rage so twisted that she's eventually willing to sacrifice her own beauty to destroy Snow White's. She uses witchcraft to transform herself into a hunchbacked old peddler and succeeds in persuading the naive girl to accept her poisoned apple. Unknowingly, however, she's wrought the means of her own demise. For, though her disguise serves the terrible deed, that same feeble body will hinder her escape.

Actress Lucille LaVerne was chosen to voice both the Wicked Queen and the hag Witch because of her versatile voice intonations. Yet when she first started voicing the Witch, the recording session director commented that her intonations were too polished, too much like the Queen. After excusing herself for a moment she returned to perform a gravelly voice that now surpassed the director's expectations. Curious, he asked what she'd changed. Smiling a toothless grin, she explained she had just removed her false teeth.

The Queen is often referred to as "Queen Grimhilde" in Disney publications of the 1930s. Her appearance was inspired by the Helen Gahagan character in the film "She" (1935).

Film: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
Voice Artist: Lucille LaVerne