Lucille La Verne(1872-1945)

Provided the voice of the vain, wicked stepmother and her alter-ego, the black-hooded, apple-proffering hag, in Walt Disney's first animated feature, Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge (1937).

I used to think that when I was slaving around in unknown stock companies as a child that the world was made up of blizzards, thermometers that registered a hundred in the shade, icy cold dressing rooms, lumpy iron bedsteads, fried steaks, one-night stands and salary ghosts that never walked.