Rejected dwarf names and other fun facts

In addition to being a life model for “Snow White,” Marge Belcher Champion also modeled for the Blue Fairy in “Pinocchio” and the dancing hippopotamus in “Fantasia.”

Some of the dwarf names that were considered and rejected: Deafy, Stubby, Biggy-Wiggy/Biggo-Ego, Fatty and Jumpy.

At one point, Dopey received more fan mail than anyone else at the Disney Studio.

As word spread around Hollywood that Disney was making a full-length animated feature, the project quickly became known as Disney’s Folly. Even Disney’s wife, Lillian, said he shouldn’t make it. Over the past 75 years, the movie has seen an estimated worldwide gross of $416 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

The American Film Institute named “Snow White” the greatest American animated film of all time.

Disney was presented with an honorary Academy Award that featured one regular-size Oscar and seven little Oscars. The statue, presented to Disney by a 10year-old Shirley Temple in 1939, is on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum.

In the mid-1940s, a sequel, “Snow White Returns,” was briefly considered and would have utilized cut scenes from the original.

At one time, the song “Someday My Prince Will Come” was planned as an elaborate dream sequence. The song itself would be too short to underscore the whole scene, so Kathleen Millay, younger sister of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, was employed to create a spoken-word verse for the song. The verse and the dream sequence never made it into the film.