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Full name: Dorothy Ann Blank
Birth: September 15, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois
Death: April 4, 1957 in Bakersfield, California
Worked at the Disney studio between:
1936 – ?
Job on Snow White:
Scriptwriter
Worked on all sequences
Writer of the Snow White story published in Good Housekeeping
Writer of the 1938 book by Grosset & Dunlap
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The feminine touch
An experienced journalist Dorothy Ann Blank worked for United Artists with Hal Horne when the company ran into financial difficulties. In the summer of 1936, she joigned the Walt Disney studio to work on Snow White.
Among other things, She was responsible for the text in sequence 15B, and wrote the film’s novelization, which was published in Good Housekeeping magazine and reused in numerous books and publications. According to Joe Grant, she also wrote the Queen’s dialogues when she talks to the mirror and when she dips the apple in the poison.
She wrote and rewrote that stuff. When you read it now, it’s very simple, but she really suffered through this stuff.
Joe Grant
