Monday, March 26, 2012

Those Other Dwarfs


When Disney began work on the big-screen adaptation of Snow White by the Brothers Grimm in the 1930s, the writing team compiled the following list of potential names for the seven dwarfs (which, in the original story were unnamed)

They settled on Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy, and their leader Doc was chosen at a later date, but here's the pool from which they drew:


1.Awful 
2.Baldy 
3.Bashful 
4.Biggo-Ego 
5.Burpy 
6.Daffy 
7.Deafy 
8.Dippy 
9.Dirty 
10.Dizzy 
11.Doleful 
12.Dopey 
13.Dumpy 
14.Flabby 
15.Gabby 
16.Grumpy 
17.Hickey 
18.Hoppy 
19.Hotsy 
20.Hungry 
21.Jaunty 
22.Jumpy 
23.Lazy 
24.Neurtsy 
25.Nifty 
26.Puffy 
27.Sappy 
28.Scrappy 
29.Shifty 
30.Shorty 
31.Silly 
32.Sleepy 
33.Snappy 
34.Sneezy 
35.Sneezy-Wheezy 
36.Sniffy 
37.Snoopy 
38.Soulful 
39.Strutty 
40.Stuffy 
41.Swift 
42.Tearful 
43.Thrifty 
44.Weepy 
45.Wheezy 
46.Wistful 
47.Woeful 


It's worth noting for extra trivia points that in 1912, the story had been adapted for the Broadway stage by Winthrop Ames. In that production, the dwarfs were named Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick, and Que.

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