1966 Tom Arnold Blanche Neige Poster

A French poster for Tom Arnold's Snow White on Ice at the Alhambra-Maurice Chevalier music hall in Paris. The performance took place on 22 of December, 1966. It's interesting to note that after a 100-year run, the theatre would close and be demolished in 1967.

Special thanks to Greg Philip of A Lost Film for sharing this poster from his collection.

Tom Arnold's Snow White on Ice - Program

A program from Tom Arnold's adaptation on ice of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Issued for the performance at the Palladium in Brighton. Twelve pages (including covers).

Produced and directed by Gerald Palmer.

Jacqueline du Bief as the Evil Queen, Sue Park played Snow White and Douglas Breniser was the Prince.

Images via k6559n.

Learn more about Tom Arnold's Snow White production in an earlier Archive entry.

Tom Arnold's Snow White on Ice - EP Record

Tom Arnold's Snow White ice production of the 1960s was quite popular in the United Kingdom. Audience members could purchase a "Souvenir Record" featuring four songs from the performance. Artists: Iris Villiers, John Kavan Choral Group, and David Holman. Orchestra directed by Reginald Swinney. Format: 45 rpm, 7" vinyl. Label: Chappell. Disc no. EP. O.8666/8667. "© 1960 Walt Disney Productions Ltd." Original retail price 7s. 6d.

1. Whistle While You Work
2. Some Day My Prince Will Come
3. Heigh-Ho
4. One Song

Record images via discogs.com.

The EP can currently be heard on youtube. (Special thanks to Gabriella Patterson for letting us know about it.)

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Another 45 rpm record was released on the Oriole label. Catalog no. EP 7044. It contained five songs--the same four from above plus I'm Wishing. Cover illustrations by the Disney Studios. One printing had maroon colored labels, another brown & yellow.

Tom Arnold's Snow White on Ice

Tom Arnold was hailed in England as the King of Pantomime and was well known for his lavish ice spectaculars. An extremely successful impresario, he brought together a wide variety of shows to stadiums across the UK.

It was in the early 1960s that Arnold's producer/director Gerald Palmer created an adaptation on ice of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The show would feature French skating star Jacqueline du Bief as the Evil Queen.











Tom Arnold image via My Brighton and Hove.

This 12-page Tom Arnold programme was available to patrons who attended the show. These two come from the performances at the Empire Pool Wembley and the Palladium in Brighton. (See the latter in more detail in another Archive entry.)

Pantomime-style shows were a popular Christmas tradition in the UK and Tom Arnold's Snow White would play for several years. A silent but substantial video clip from a 1965 performance at Wimbley Stadium in London can be viewed on youtube and at British Pathe.

A Tom Arnold record album was also released featuring the music from the show. Learn more in another post.

After the Tom Arnold performances finished their run, not much was seen of Snow White until the 1980s when things would change in a big way with Disney's own Snow White on Ice shows produced by Kenneth Feld.

Tom Arnold - Posters

Tom Arnold's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs promo posters from the UK ice performances in the 1960s. Birmingham and Brighton...

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