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Snow White (1916 film)

Snow White is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. Winthrop Ames adapted it from his own 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale. The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage role.

Cast
Marguerite Clark as Snow White • Creighton Hale as Prince Florimond • Dorothy Cumming as Queen Brangomar • Lionel Braham as Berthold the Huntsman • Alice Washburn as Witch Hex (*see below) • Richard Barthelmess as Pie Man • Arthur Donaldson as King • Irwin Emmer as Dwarf • Billy Platt as Dwarf • Herbert Rice as Dwarf • Jimmy Rosen as Dwarf uncreditedMay Robson as Witch Hex (she replaced originally scheduled Alice Washburn) • Kate Lester as a dowager queen ==Preservation status==
Preservation status
Formerly thought to have been destroyed in a vault fire and presumed lost, a "substantially complete" print with Dutch intertitles, missing a few scenes, was found in Amsterdam in 1992 and restored at George Eastman House. ==Home media==
Home media
Snow White is included in the boxed DVD set Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2000). ==See also==
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