Lucille La Verne

Lucille La Verne Mitchum (November 7, 1872 – March 4, 1945) was an American actress known for her appearances in early sound films, as well as for her triumphs on the American stage. She is most widely remembered to modern audiences as the voice of the first Disney villain, the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature film, serving as her final film role.

Biography

Lucille La Verne Mitchum was born near Nashville, Tennessee, on November 7, 1872 (although some sources say 1869).

She made her motion picture debut in 1915 in the movie Over Night directed by James Young. She also performed small parts in the movies Polly of the Circus, directed by Charles Thomas Horan and Edwin L. Hollywood, and Orphans of the Storm, directed by D.W. Griffith. Her best known part is that of the voice of the Evil Queen, and her alter ego of the old witch from Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which was her final film performance.

Death Lucille La Verne died at the age of 72 in Culver City, California, on March 4, 1945, after suffering from lung cancer. She was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery. Her grave remained unmarked for seven decades until a GoFundMe was set up in 2020.

Filmography