Comments on: A post for Adriana Caselotti, the true Snow White

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:32:16 +0000

I love love love your comment! Every time you leave a comment, I can feel a short story emerging. Hope all is good with you x

By: jan

jan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:53:40 +0000

Snowwhite…I
And I 1st saw this in Ellesmere Port with my Aunty Ethel who was a retired “Nanny”…of The Old School…( Eat Up Ypur Greens! Don’t Slouch At Table! Stand Up For Grownups!) I wish I could talk with her now.
She “nannied” wealthy Cheshire families…and sometimes brought home books “her children” had finished with…I particularly remember ” Sam Pig Tears His Trousers”?…Was that Alison Uttley???
Anyhow she took us to Snowwhite …and HORROR of HORRORS! She actually CRIED all through it…
My mother later saud that Aunty Ethel had had Good Cause to cry…and I would understand why when I was older…

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:48:24 +0000

Oh do, it’s terrifying! Hope you enjoy A-Z. It really is fabulous! x

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:47:49 +0000

Those fairytales influence my writing, as in really really do. Not many pick up on the fairytale imagery but it’s all there in everything I try to write. I think that their fairytales and their literature have helped form me. Good luck with your fairytale! x

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:02:01 +0000

Gosh, I’ve not seen Snow White in years and years!! Might have to go and get myself a copy after reading this!!

C x

Ps. Bought myself a copy of the A to Z of possible worlds today!! Can’t wait for it to arrive

By: Apryl

Apryl — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:11:00 +0000

we dont have Snow White on dvd but my parents do, and I do vaguely remember watching a show on how it was animated once. I have always loved fairy tales, my great aunt gave me two volumes of Fairy Tales of the World which I used to read over and over (well my favourites anyway), and I have a hardback Grims Fairy Tale collection which I got a few years ago that has the more gruesome original tales in in. I’m in the middle of writing my own fairy tale, which I kept ignoring and putting aside for other things (I have set myself the challenge of getting it finished by the end of the month though I fear I need a taskmaster or several to harp at me to get it done). I’m not a big writer, I do small drabbles and a few fan fics in recent years, I seem to have forgotten that I once desperately wanted to be a writer among other things.

By: Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:45:17 +0000

There is something about the story that terrifies me, I guess the fact that her ’safe place’ never is, that there is no place to hide from evil. Seriously scary. The ride in Disneyland Paris scared me and Littlest too… it’s all about believing. Watcing Adriana on lovely Paul’s show really made me smile. I don’t think I’d ever thought that Snow White existed beyond her created character… x

By: trousers

trousers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:40 +0000

I remember seeing a local production of Snow White which was on at the church hall in our village. I don’t know how good it was, objectively speaking, but I do remember it carried some power. I knew the story – perhaps both from the Disney and the original – but it carried something extra as a real, live performance unfolding before me.

I loved reading your words about Adriana Caselotti.