#Magic mirror on the wall tv#

To escape the penalty, he comes back with a pig's heart and gives it to the Queen. But Humbert cannot bear to kill the young princess upon realizing that she is impervious to harm, so he tells Snow White of the Queen's plot and tells her to run away and never to come back. He is also ordered to bring back her heart in a box to prove that he had done so. She commands her faithful Huntsman, Humbert, to take the princess deep into the forest and kill her.

After observing the handsome Prince from another kingdom singing a love song to Snow White, the proud Queen falls in a jealous rage. She became obsessively jealous of the princess' emerging beauty, therefore turning her into a scullery maid in her own home. One day, however, the mirror tells her that there is a new fairest woman in the land, her 14-year-old stepdaughter, Princess Snow White. The Queen has magical power only over her own domain, which is the castle. She regularly asks the mirror who is the fairest in the realm ('Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?' which is often misquoted as 'Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all' ), and the mirror would always reply that she is. The Magic Mirror shows a haunted, smokey face of her familiar demon which replies to the Queen's requests. 'From that time on the cruel Queen ruled all alone, her every word was law, and all trembled in mortal fear of her anger.' The vain Queen owned a magical mirror with which she could look upon whatever she wished. In 'another land, far away,' 'many, many years ago,' about the time of fairy tales of castles, knights, fair maidens, romance, magic and witches,' a mysterious and icily beautiful woman with magical powers (a 1938 promotional brochure suggests that she is able to work her witchcraft having sold 'herself body and soul to the bad spirits' of Germany's Harz mountains) has gained her royal position by marrying the widowed King, giving her rule over his kingdom before he died. The Queen in her secret lair in an illustration by the Brothers Hildebrandt The film's version of the Queen has also become a popular archetype that influenced a number of artists and non-Disney works. Besides in the film, the Evil Queen has made numerous appearances in Disney attractions and productions, including not only these directly related to the tale of Snow White, such as Fantasmic!, The Kingdom Keepers and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, sometimes appearing in them alongside Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. This version of the fairy tale character has been very well received by film critics and the public, and is considered one of Disney's most iconic and menacing villains.

#Magic mirror on the wall tv#

The Queen has since been voiced by Eleanor Audley, June Foray, Janet Waldo, Eda Reiss Merin, Louise Chamis and Susanne Blakeslee, and was portrayed live by Anne Francine (musical), Jane Curtin (50th anniversary TV special), Olivia Wilde ( Disney Dream Portraits), and Kathy Najimy ( Descendants). Inspiration for her design came from the characters of Queen Hash-a-Motep from She and Princess Kriemhild from Die Nibelungen.

The film's version of the Queen was created by Walt Disney and Joe Grant, and originally animated by Art Babbitt and voiced by Lucille La Verne. The Queen dies in the film, but lives on in a variety of non-canonical Disney works. The film's version of the Queen character uses her dark magic powers to actually transform herself into an old woman instead of just taking a disguise like in the Grimms' story this appearance of hers is commonly referred to as the Wicked Witch or alternatively as the Old Hag or just the Witch in the stepmother's disguised form. This leads her to plot the death of Snow White and ultimately on the path to her own demise, which in the film is indirectly caused by the Seven Dwarfs. She becomes madly envious over the beauty of her stepdaughter, Princess Snow White, as well as the attentions of the Prince from another land such love triangle element is one of Disney's changes to the story. In the film, similar to the Brothers Grimm story it is based on, the Evil Queen is cold, sadistic, cruel, and extremely vain, owning a magic mirror, and obsessively desiring to remain the 'fairest in the land'. She is based on the Evil Queen character from the 1812 German fairy tale ' Snow White'. The Evil Queen, also known as the Wicked Queen, Queen Grimhilde, or just the Queen, is a fictional character who appears as the main antagonist in Walt Disney Productions' first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and remains a villain character in their extended Snow White franchise.