Walt Disney (opposite page-looking over models of the seven little dwarfs) and his men had no easy job in developing the appealing character of Dopey, as proven by these sketches selected from the fifteen stages of Dopey's evolution. The key man was Eddie Collins (lower left), who posed for the final stage (for right) and; now has a success story all his own!
Dopey, lovable little clown of “Snow White,” is dead. For one brief hour he flashed across a movie screen, a simple little dwarf, and in that hour he became an established idol in the heart of every man, woman and child who saw him, who laughed with him and at him.
Now comes the word that Dopey is dead-killed by the man who conceived him in love and thought and care, who spent live long years in the creation of the character whose confused and thwarted little antics tugged at every heart-string even as they wrung a smile from every lip. Walt Disney has decreed that Dopey shall live no more. When “Snow White" has finished its run in the theaters little Dopey will have passed on to whatever heaven is prepared for not quite bright little cartoon characters who take the bumps with a smile.
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Filmic Light - Snow White Archive
