You see those famous Disney princesses on the big screen, but what you don’t see are the women who havelent their voices to bring themto life…until now.
A young girl befriends small forest creatures and takes a long, curse-induced nap in 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
In real life, Adriana Caselotti was a convent-educated teenager who beat out 150 actresses.
Walt Disney personally hired eighteen-year-old Caselotti for the role of Snow White in his first feature-length cartoon. She made $20 a day reciting lines and singing, which is reportedly less than for one of the actors who voiced a dwarf.
In 1950’s Cinderella, the princess made an unforgettable appearance at a ball, lost a shoe, and gained a prince.
Not a bad night’s work.
The actress who voiced her, Ilene Woods, had her own radio show by age 11.
The New Hampshire native performed in her own local radio show at eleven and in a network show at fourteen, so she was captivating audiences with her voice long before she sang “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes.”
Two songwriter friends asked her to record a demo of some tunes they’d written for a coming Disney feature, and two days later she wound up in Walt Disney’s office.
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