Burpy, baldy, deafy … auctioned artwork reveals rejected Snow White dwarves

Bonhams sketches flesh out 16 potentially offensive characters that didn’t make the cut for the final seven in classic Disney animation

A display of concept drawings by the seminal movie artist Albert Hurter have shed new light on some of the rejected characters who didn’t make the cut in Walt Disney’s 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The final lineup – Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopey – was selected from a pool of around 50 brainstormed by his team; in the Grimms’ original 1812 story, the dwarves are anonymous.

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