Lucille La Verne: The Backstory on Snow White's Wicked Queen
The name Lucille La Verne (Lucille La Verne MItchum, 1872-1945) may sound well suited to burlesque, but she was the very essence of "legit". La Verne's best remembered role today is the Wicked Queen/Stepmother/Old Hag in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). That's already a magical film, but knowing something of La […]