1938 Grauman's Chinese Theatre 'Playgoer" - Snow White Ad

This Playgoer playbill for Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood was given out during the engagement of A Yank at Oxford. The program isn't dated, but IMDb cites the release date for "Yank" as February 18, 1938.

This was shortly after the initial general release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on February 4th. Yet, it's known that there weren't enough prints of the Disney animated film to go around. Many cities didn't show the picture until weeks, or even months later.

This might explain why the full page Snow White ad in this playbill states that it "positively will not be shown in any other Los Angeles theatre for months."

Images and info courtesy of Rick Payne Collection via dadric's attic.

Snow White's 75th Anniversary Hollywood Screening

Recently, it was announced that the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) Classic Film Festival along with the D23 Disney Fan Club will present a 75th anniversary big screen showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The public screening will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday April 14, 2012 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

In addition, on the day before, legendary actor Kirk Douglas will be on hand at the theatre for the first public screening of the newly restored 1954 Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. That will be Friday April 13th at 2:45 pm.

The four-day festival runs April 12-15 and will play a wide variety of motion picture gems as they were originally meant to be seen--on the big screen, in some of the world's most iconic venues, with the people who made them. For the classic film lover, this looks to be quite the prodigious weekend.

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[UPDATE: 4/16/2012...]

Marge Champion (pictured on stage with Leonard Maltin) received "a huge applause and standing ovation" at the screening.

Ginnifer Goodwin (who plays Snow White on the television series Once Upon a Time) chats with Leonard Maltin on stage.

Info and images of the festival screening via WAMG.

Hollywood Stories - Stephen Schochet on Lucille La Verne

In the short video below, hollywoodstories.com storyteller Stephen Schochet shares the well-known anecdote involving Lucille La Verne and her recording session for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The actress who voiced both the Evil Queen and the Witch achieved that distinctive sound for the more ragtag of the two characters through some very original improvisation.

Lucille La Verne  pose struck for animator Joe Grant during the dialog recording session.

Schochet is author and narrator of numerous Hollywood tales including the audiobook Fascinating Walt Disney. In the bonus video below, learn anecdotal information about Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Sid Grauman as well as Mary Pickford and how she was inadvertently responsible for the creation of the handprints in cement at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre Forecourt.

















Bonus video.