Adriana Hitchell Caselotti (May 16, 1916 - January 19, 1997) was an Italian-Americanactress best known for providing the voice behind the lead character in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Her father Guido Caselotti, an immigrant from Italy, was a teacher of music and a vocal coach.
Her mother, Maria Caselotti (from Naples), was a singer in the Royal Opera.
AdrianaCaselotti, was born May 5, 1916 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Adriana was born into an operatic family - her father Guido, an immigrant from Italy, taught music in New York City, her mother Maria (from Naples) sang at the Royal Opera, and a sister Louise was a noted opera singer and voice teacher, who later helped train Maria Callas.
Caselotti was honored by Disney Studios in 1994 when she received a Disney Legend Award and left her handprints in cement outside the Studio Theatre.
AdrianaCaselotti never lost her sense of fun and enthusiasm for the Disney character she played in 1937 - Snow White.
Adriana was educated at an Italian convent, San Getulio, near Rome, while her mother performed in the Opera.
Adriana happened to pick up an extension and while listening to her father's conversation, chimed in "Listen to me - wouldn't my voice do?" Indeed it did, and over the next year, her voice was tested, songs were recorded, and the Disney animators studied her gestures for inspiration.
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Her father Guido Caselotti, an immigrant from Italy (Italy: A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD), was a teacher of music and a vocal coach.
Her mother, Maria Caselotti (from Naples (Naples: A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region)), was a singer in the Royal Opera.
Adriana made a concious decision to not appear in any other films following Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: snow white and the seven dwarfs is the first animated feature in the disney animated...
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Miss Caselotti was 18 when Walt Disney personally hired her in 1934 for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." According to studio history, Walt Disney had been searching for a voice that was "ageless, friendly, natural and innocent."
Miss Caselotti got a recommendation for the role when a Disney casting scout asked her father, a Los Angeles vocal coach, if any of his students might have a voice beguiling enough for the role.
In a 1993 interview with The Associated Press, she said she was paid $20 a day to sing and read the lines for the role, for a total of $970, and didn't realize she was working on a full-length animated film.
Blessed with a delicate but unusually clear and high voice, Caselotti was only 19 when she was chosen out 150 girls to portray the title character.
Caselotti was born into a musically talented family.
Her mother was also Italian and once sang opera as did Caselotti's sister Louise, who was famed in her own right and later trained Maria Callas to sing.
Adriana was born into an operatic family - her father Guido, an immigrant from Italy, taught music in New York City, her mother Maria (from Naples) sang at the Royal Opera, and a sister Louise was a noted opera singer and voice teacher.
She was 18 when Walt Disney personally choose her for the voice of Snow White in his first full length animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)....
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It's OK if the names AdrianaCaselotti, Ilene Woods and Jodi Benson don't immediately spring to mind — they were never promoted or paid as stars when their most famous screen characters debuted.
Decades ago, Walt Disney barred Caselotti — who was 18 when she earned about $970 for her work — from making any public appearances.
Caselotti, who died in 1997 at 80, often said she deserved more, but never sued for it.
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Offered is a signed piece by AdrianaCaselotti the voice of Snow White with a display of an 1938 Radio City performace program.
Adapted from the works of the Brothers Grimm, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs stars the voice of AdrianaCaselotti as the voice of Snow White who hides out in the woods with the Seven Dwarfs to escape the evil Queen (voiced by Lucille La Verne).
Caselotti, she lived in the same city and state that I did and went to the same school.
One day, Disney's casting director telephoned Guido Caselotti (a well-known voice coach who was married to an Italian prima donna) to get some voice talent references.
Overhearing the conversation, Caselotti's 19-year-old daughter, Adriana, got on the phone to sing and banter in a young girl's voice.
The embarrassed father ordered her off the line, but not before the casting director had invited her to audition.
My prize possession was (and still is) a copy of a book entitled The Story of Walt Disney, autographed by the man himself.
I corresponded and, eventually, became friends with a number of veteran artists who had created the legendary Disney characters as well as some of the actors who had given them their voices, such as AdrianaCaselotti who was Snow White - both in and out of the movie!
I'll write more about Adriana for my web site in the next few months.
