The Evil Queen Disney Wiki. The Evil Queen is a featured article, which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Disney Wiki community. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. The Evil Queen. Honors and awards. AFIs 1. 00 Years. Apple Hd Cartoons The Snow Queen ' title='Apple Hd Cartoons The Snow Queen ' />The Evil Queen also known as the Wicked Queen or just the Queen is the main antagonist of Disneys 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the first Disney. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Bluray Diamond Edition 1937 Starring Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne and Stuart Buchanan. The fairy tale of Snow White, a. Heroes and VillainsOther names. Wicked Queen. Queen Grimhilde. Ol Granny. Wicked Witch. Personality. Evil, sadistic, vain, ruthless, obsessive, sinister, jealous, wicked, intelligent, conniving, deceiving, insane, murderous, arrogant, cruel, selfish, devious, dishonest, callous, psychotic. Goal. To kill Snow White and become the fairest one of all failedEnemies. Snow White, the Prince, Doc, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, Dopey, Humbert, Magic Mirror. Likes. Her own beauty, Snow Whites misery, causing despair for her enemies, tormenting her raven, sadistic spells, taunting her deceased prisoners. Dislikes. Snow Whites happiness, superiority, failure, anyone fairer than her, the Huntsmans disobedience. Powers and abilities. Black magic and witchcraft. Fate. Falls off a cliff to her death, with a boulder following behind and crushing her body. Once her death is confirmed, two vultures devour her remains. QuoteMagic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of allThe heart of a pig Then I have been trickedNow, Ill be fairest in the landIll fix yaIll crush your bonesWhen she breaks the tender peel, to taste the apple in my hand, her breath will still, her blood congeal, then Ill be fairest in the landThe Evil Queen on her plans to poison Snow White. The Evil Queen also known as the Wicked Queen or just the Queen is the main antagonist of Disneys 1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the first Disney animated features canon villain. Determined to remain the fairest one of all, the Queen becomes insanely jealous of Snow White, the only one whose beauty surpasses her own. She eventually uses dark magic in the form of an aging potion to transform herself into an old woman, in a final attempt to do away with her only, unknowing rival. Depicted in early designs as a fat character, her appearance eventually evolved into a much more sinister, stately beauty. She is generally one of Disneys most iconic and menacing first villains, once being voted the 1. The Queen was animated by Art Babbitt and the Witch by Norman Ferguson. Although they are technically the same character, official materials such as the 1. Disney Classics card set have depicted them as being different entities. Her name was given as Queen Grimhilde in some old publicity material and comics, but the Walt Disney Company does not seem to acknowledge it as canon. She is sometimes referred to as the Wicked Queen, while theme parks sometimes refer to her as the Snow Queen Not to be confused with Elsa the Snow Queen. The Witch is sometimes referred to as the Old Hag after drinking the aging potion. The Queen is, along with Maleficent, one of the most prominent of the Disney Villains. Background. Development. Design and animation. The Evil Queens early designs. In the early stages of design, the Queen was drawn as a fat, frumpy, comical character, in the style of the characters of the Silly Symphonies. The Fleisher Betty Boop short Snow White, which, like much of Fleishers work, had probably been studied by Disneys animators, also has a fat, ugly Queen. However, when Albert Hurter introduced a more realistic style of character design to the Disney animators, it was ultimately decided that the Queen should be more beautiful, regal, cold and sinister, creating a much scarier character than had ever been attempted in animation before. Rather than a comical villain, she became a femme fatale, a type of character with which the Disney artists would have been familiar, through the silent screen at the same time she is a figure from ancient Europe, viewed by American audiences in the 1. The Queens costume is rumored to be based on that worn by Helen Gahagan in the 1. She, though animator Art Babbit and other Disney artists have denied this. At a meeting on October 3. Disney suggested that the papier mache masks by Art Deco illustrator Vladislav Theodor Benda an influence on Joe Grants work be used as inspiration for the Queens face. Her Hollywood mask of a face may also draw inspiration from Joan Crawford, particularly in the lips and eyes. The Queens costume and general silhouette may have been inspired by a column statue at Naumburg Cathedral depicting Uta, wife of the Margrave of Meissen. There are also facial similarities to George de Feures La Femme au chapeau noir 1. Babbit based the Queen on all of the women Ive ever known, and noted that, while the animation of the Queen relied, to an extent, on live action footage, he felt the need to caricature and invent in order to justify the medium of animation the animation was not rotoscoped as the Princes was. Concept art of the Witch offering the poisoned apple to Snow White. The Witch resembles hags in European illustrations of fairy tales, in particular Arthur Rackhams illustration for Hansel and Gretel a similar character was used in the Silly Symphonies short, Babes in the Woods. Disney may also have been influenced by stage traditions, such as transformation scenes in which the hag is transformed into a beautiful fairy that were later used for Beauty and the Beast in 1. Many of the artists at the studio tried designs for the Queens Witch form Joe Grants pastel designs for the character were ultimately approved and used as the model for the animators to follow. Norman Ferguson was thought to have been cast as animator of the Witch because of his skill at creating a lifelike effect while not actually being able to animate a living creature. He initially found difficulty in animating the Witch, as her illustration influenced design was not thought to lend itself perfectly to animation, and there was concern that the witch would amuse, rather than intimidate, the audience. However, Ferguson animated the Witch with respect to acting and personality rather than inner emotions. He set part of the Witchs phrases to the melody of a popular song of the time and animated to this rhythm, singing to himself as he drew. Notably, the Witch is the only character who occasionally looks directly into the camera and appear to address the audience it is likely that this is because Fergusons approach was inspired by vaudeville performers. Live action footage for the Witch was shot of actors Don Brodie and Moroni Olsen, who performed in drag. Fergusons animation was also partially influenced by Lionel Barrymores drag performance in The Devil Doll. As a result, the Witch possesses certain masculine qualities that make her seem more aggressive and dangerous. John Lounsbury was Fergusons assistant in animating the Witch, and animated the scene in which the Witch disappears underneath a trapdoor, cackling that Snow White will be buried alive. In story meetings concerning the transformation sequence, and the sequence at the cauldron, Walt Disney made reference to Dr. Rotwang Rotwangs laboratory in Fritz Langs Metropolis and the scene in Macbeth in which the three witches brew their potion. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is another influence. The sequence in which the Witch rows a boat from the catacombs underneath the castle suggests the influence of an illustration of Charon by Gustave Dore for Dantes Inferno. Voice. Lucille La Verne was first asked to provide only the voice of Vengeance in A Tale of Two Cities,3 but read for both parts and was later offered the part of the Queen when no other actress was found. Some at the studio felt that her voice was too deep, but David Hand argued that she knew how to deliver lines, particularly when adding ingredients to the potion. Download Feast Cartoons. Bill Cottrell and Joe Grant were in charge of La Vernes recording session. At first, they felt that her voice was too smooth for the Witch.