Lucille La Verne

Coming to films from the stage in 1914, actress Lucille LaVerne had a career which endured for over twenty years. She seemed to dote on playing tattered old hags, staggering tosspots, time- and care-worn slum mothers and indomitable frontierswomen. She was delightful in her own nasty way as the old harridan who forces blind Dorothy Gish to sing in the streets in Griffith's Orphans of the Storm (1922). Successfully making the transition to sound, she was seen as petty-crook James Cagney's overprotective mother in Sinner's Holiday (1930), a slatternly underworld fence in Little Caesar (1930) and "The Vengeance," the toothless, cackling insurrectionist in Tale of Two Cities (1935). A more benign LaVerne was seen as a hillbilly matriarch who's set her cap for old blowhard Noah Beery Sr. in Wheeler & Woolsey's Kentucky Kernels (1934). Lucille LaVerne's most famous screen role, was one in which her face was never seen: she served as voice and model of the Wicked Queen in the 1937 Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Zaza	Actor	—	2013
98%	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Queen/Witch	—	1937
100%	A Tale of Two Cities	La Vengeance	—	1935
No Score Yet	School for Girls	Miss Keeble	—	1935
No Score Yet	Kentucky Kernels	Hannah Milford	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Mighty Barnum	Joyce Heth	—	1934
80%	Pilgrimage	Mrs. Hatfield	—	1933
No Score Yet	Hearts of Humanity	Actor	—	1933
No Score Yet	Wayne Murder Case	Mrs. Sheen	—	1932
No Score Yet	She Wanted a Millionaire	Mother Norton	—	1932
No Score Yet	Alias The Doctor	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Unholy Garden	Lucie Villars	—	1931
91%	Little Caesar	Ma Magdalena	—	1931
No Score Yet	An American Tragedy	Mrs. Asa Griffiths	—	1931
90%	Abraham Lincoln	Midwife	—	1930
57%	America	A Refugee Mother	—	1924
92%	Orphans of the Storm	Mother Frochard	—	1921

Queen/Witch: Oh! What a cute little chair. Why, there's seven little chairs. Must be seven little children. And from the look of this table, seven untidy little children
Queen/Witch: Oh! What a cute little chair. Why, there's seven little chairs. Must be seven little children. And from the look of this table, seven untidy little children.

Magic Mirror: Famed is thy beauty majesty, but ho! A lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee.
Queen/Witch: Alas for her. Reveal her name.
Magic Mirror: Lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow.
Queen/Witch: *gasps* Snow White.

Queen/Witch: Dip the apple in the brew. Let the sleeping death seep through. There! On the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now turn red to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite.
Queen/Witch: Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through. [the poison on the apple forms a skull] Look! On the skin! The symbol of what lies within. Now, turn red, to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite.
Queen/Witch: [offering the apple to the raven] Have a bite? [the raven flaps wildly, trying to escape] [laughing] It's not for you, it's for Snow White. When she breaks the tender peel, to taste the apple in my hand, her breath will still, her blood congeal, then I'll be fairest in the land!