Line #8 Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges


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3	->''"And if, by now, you're wondering what on earth the Three Stooges have to do with the fairy tale of Snow White, it's very simple. In this version, we're telling the story of... [[TitleDrop Snow White and the Three Stooges]]!"''
4	-->-- '''The Narrator'''
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6	A 1961 live-action retelling of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' directed by Walter Lang, starring Carol Heiss (a then-recent [[UsefulNotes/TheOlympics Olympic gold medalist]] in figure skating) as Snow White, with Film/TheThreeStooges taking the place of the Seven Dwarfs.
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8	The story follows the fairy tale, with a few twists, such as PrinceCharming having been raised by the Stooges after they saved him from an assassin when he was a boy (he'd lost his memory in the attack). The film started as a NonActorVehicle for Heiss, similar to the Creator/SonjaHenie films also by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, with the Stooges only being brought in when Fox realized that Heiss couldn't carry the movie by herself.
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11	!!Snow White and the (More Than) Three Tropes:
12	* AdaptationExpansion: The inclusion of Count Oga, for one. The prince got a larger role than in other tellings. He actually has a role in the story instead of just a cameo, and he even gets to take part in an action-packed climax.
13	* BarefootCaptives: What happens to Snow White when she is locked up by the queen after the death of her father the king.
14	* TheCameo: An uncredited Creator/MelBlanc as the voice of Quinto, the Stooges' ventriloquist dummy.
15	* CanonForeigner: Count Oga is the original character.
16	* CoolCrown: Snow White wears a really dainty one with her birthday skating dress.
17	* TheDragon: Count Oga serves the evil queen.
18	* DreamBallet: Although a daydream ballet, Snow White has one of these after she thinks the prince was killed.
19	* EasyAmnesia: The prince got hit on the head during his assassination attempt, and lost his memory.
20	* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Snow White's skating dress, on her birthday, is loaded with sequins. A few other dresses in the scene are also glittery.
21	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Count Oga takes a header into a cauldron filled with boiling oil and is shown sinking out of sight with an utterly agonized look on his face.
22	* GorgeousPeriodDress: The costuming is bright and colorful, and turns into CostumePorn for everyone at Snow White's birthday celebration.
23	* JailBake: With a sandwich instead of a cake.
24	* MythologyGag: The Stooges are house sitting for a bunch of dwarfs.
25	* NonActorVehicle: Carol Heiss was a skater, not an actor. She didn't have any illusions otherwise, and just wanted to have fun making a film before moving on to other things (she even got scolded for asking for autographs at the studio cafeteria).
26	* ParentalAbandonment: Snow White's mother died [[DeathByChildbirth in childbirth]], of course to have the king remarry, and her father dies on her seventeenth birthday.
27	* ParentalSubstitute (and PapaWolf): The Three Stooges give an unexpectedly touching performance as the devoted adopted parents to the amnesiac prince, repeatedly risking their lives without hesitation to protect their adopted son. While this is not their funniest performance, it appears to be their sweetest.
28	* PimpedOutDress: Snow White's skating dresses were very fancy, even if HollywoodCostuming.
29	* PrettyInMink: The film had a number of dresses with fur trim, including [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carol_heiss_snow_white.jpg the white skating dress Snow White wears]], and she gets an ermine muff for her birthday.
30	* PrinceCharming: The prince is actually named that.
31	* PrincessClassic: Snow White is just as sweet and pure as she is in her Disney incarnation.
32	* RuleOfThree: The magic dagger Count Oga wears grants three wishes, but they can only be used for good.
33	** Though normally, wishing someone in Hell forever would not count as a good wish, in the case of a certain villainess it made an exception.
34	* SnakeOilSalesman: The Stooges were doing this before they rescued the prince.
35	* {{Slapstick}}: There were a few scenes of this, if not much compared to the Stooges' other films.
36	* StorybookOpening: With the Stooges interrupting it repeatedly.

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