Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Brazilian Portuguese cast

Branca de Neve e os Sete Anões (1938)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Version 1938
Version 1965

Dalva de Oliveira

(May 5, 1917 - August 30, 1972)

Maria Clara T. Jacome

(April 1905 - July 11, 1984)

Cordélia Ferreira

(August 9, 1898 - July 2000)

Cast :

Brazilian name

Original name

Voices

Branca de Neve

Snow White

Dalva de Oliveira (speaking) & Maria Clara Tati Jacome (singing)

Rainha Má

Evil Queen

Cordélia Ferreira

A Bruxa

The Hag

Estephania Louro

Principe

Prince

Carlos Galhardo (speaking & singing)

Mestre

Doc

'Almirante' Henrique Foréis Domingues (speaking & singing)

Zangado

Grumpy

Aristóteles Penna (speaking) & ? (singing)

Feliz
Somneca

Happy
Sleepy

Baptista Junior (speaking) & ? (singing)

Dengoso

Bashful

Delorges Caminha (speaking) & ? (singing)

Atchim

Sneezy

Edmundo Maia (speaking) & ? (singing)

Espelho Mágico

Magic Mirror

'Almirante' Henrique Foréis Domingues

Caçador

Huntsman

Túlio de Lemos

Dwarfs' choir

'Almirante' Henrique Foréis Domingues
Bob Lazy
Castro Barbosa
Odyr Odilon

Songs

« Eu Quero » (« I'm Wishing »)

performed by : Maria Clara Tati Jacome (Snow White)

« Uma Canção » (« One Song »)

performed by : Carlos Galhardo (Prince)

« Uma Canção (Reprise) » (« One Song (Reprise) »)

performed by : Maria Clara Tati Jacome (Snow White)

« Com Um Sorriso e Uma Canção » (« With a Smile and a Song »)

performed by : Maria Clara Tati Jacome (Snow White)

« Assobie Enquanto Trabalha » (« Whistle While You Work »)

performed by : Maria Clara Tati Jacome (Snow White)

« Cavando a Mina/Ai-Ô » (« Dig, Dig, Dig/Heigh-Ho »)

performed by : ? (Happy) ; ? (Grumpy) ; ? (Bashful) ; ? (Sneezy) ; Almirante (Doc) & Dwarfs' choir

« Ai-Ô (Reprise) » (« Heigh-Ho (Reprise) »)

performed by : Dwarfs' choir

« Vamos se Lavar » (« The Dwarfs' Washing Song »)

performed by : Almirante (Doc) & Dwarfs' choir

« Canção Maluca » (« The Silly Song »)

performed by : ? (Happy) ; ? (Bashful) & Dwarfs' choir

« Quando Meu Príncipe Vier » (« Someday My Prince Will Come »)

performed by : Maria Clara Tati Jacome (Snow White)

« Quando Meu Príncipe Vier (Reprise) » (« Someday My Prince Will Come (Reprise) »)

performed by : Maria Clara Tati Jacome (Snow White)

« Uma Canção (Final) » (« One Song (Finale) »)

performed by : Carlos Galhardo (Prince)

« Quando Meu Príncipe Vier (Final) » (« Someday My Prince Will Come (Finale) »)

performed by : Choir

Technical Staff

Wallace Downey
João de Barro
Gilberto Souto
João de Barro
Ruy de Castro
João de Barro (& Alberto Ribeiro)
Moacyr Fenelon
Sono-films

Dubbing director
Musical director
Translator (USA)
Adaptation (Brazil)
Adaptation (Brazil)
Lyricists
Sound engineer
Dubbing studio

Sources : Newspapers & Magazines / Music Sheet (September 1938)

Maria Alice Barreto

(November 23, 1930 - September 28, 2010)

Cybele Freire

(May 3, 1940 - August 21, 2014)

Lourdes Mayer

(March 13, 1922 - July 25, 1998)

Cast :

Brazilian name

Original name

Voices

Branca de Neve

Snow White

Maria Alice Barreto (speaking) & Cybele Freire (singing)

Rainha Má

Evil Queen

Lourdes Mayer

A Bruxa

The Hag

Estelita Bell

Príncipe

Prince

João Alberto Persson (speaking & singing)

Mestre

Doc

Magalhães Graça (speaking & singing)

Zangado

Grumpy

Ênio Santos (speaking & singing)

Feliz

Happy

Joaquim 'Luís' Motta [credited as Luiz Motta] (speaking & singing)

Dengoso

Bashful

Navarro de Andrade (speaking & singing)

Atchim

Sneezy

Orlando Drummond (speaking & singing)

Soneca

Sleepy

Allan Lima

Espelho Mágico

Magic Mirror

Joaquim 'Luís' Motta [credited as Luiz Motta]

Caçador

Huntsman

Domício Costa

Songs

« Desejo » (« I'm Wishing »)

performed by : Cybele Freire (Snow White)

« Uma Canção » (« One Song »)

performed by : João Alberto Persson (Prince)

« Uma Canção (Reprise) » (« One Song (Reprise) »)

performed by : Cybele Freire (Snow White)

« Sorrir e Cantar » (« With a Smile and a Song »)

performed by : Cybele Freire (Snow White)

« Assobiando a Trabalhar » (« Whistle While You Work »)

performed by : Cybele Freire (Snow White)

« Cavando a Mina / Eu Vou (Hi-Ho) » (« Heigh-Ho »)

performed by : Joaquim 'Luís' Motta (Happy) ; Ênio Santos (Grumpy) ; Navarro de Andrade (Bashful) ; Orlando Drummond (Sneezy) ; Magalhães Graça (Doc) & Dwarfs' choir

« Eu Vou (Reprise) » (« Heigh-Ho (Reprise) »)

performed by : Dwarfs' choir

« Burr Burr Burr » (« The Dwarfs' Washing Song »)

performed by : Magalhães Graça (Doc) & Dwarfs' choir

« A Canção Tonta » (« The Silly Song »)

performed by : Joaquim 'Luís' Motta (Happy) ; Navarro de Andrade (Bashful) & Dwarfs' choir

« O Meu Príncipe Vai Chegar » (« Someday My Prince Will Come »)

performed by : Cybele Freire (Snow White)

« O Meu Príncipe Vai Chegar (Reprise) » (« Someday My Prince Will Come (Reprise) »)

performed by : Cybele Freire (Snow White)

« Uma Canção (Final) » (« One Song (Finale) »)

performed by : João Alberto Persson (Prince)

« O Meu Príncipe Vai Chegar (Final) » (« Someday My Prince Will Come (Finale) »)

performed by : Choir

Technical Staff

Telmo Perle Münch
Aloysio de Oliveira (?)
Gilberto Souto
Telmo Perle Münch
Aloysio de Oliveira
Riosom S.A., Rio de Janeiro

Dubbing director
Musical director
Translator
Translator
Lyricist
Dubbing studio

Sources : 2001 DVD credits / Soundtrack (Song's section) / Domício Costa's interview (Huntsman's voice)

Release dates :
Rio de Janeiro - September 5, 1938 (1st dubbing) (Odeon & São Luiz Cinemas) (Premiere)
Pernambuco - October 3, 1938 (1st dubbing)
São Paulo - October 10, 1938 (1st dubbing) (Alhambra, Odeon & Rosario Cinemas)
Goiás - June 12, 1940 (1st dubbing)
The first dubbing was recorded in May-June 1938. There wasn't a general national cinema release of the movie in Brazil, it was released on different dates in the different states, in selected theaters. The last release was in Goiás.
Brazil - December 27, 1965 (2nd dubbing) (Rio de Janeiro Premiere)
Three movies were dubbed in the 1930s in Brazilian, but they were dubbed in the US for Americans and Brazilians residing there. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first movie to be dubbed in Brazilian, in Brazil, for Brazilian people.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first presented in Brazil on February 16, 1938 in the ship SS Normandic (when he was docked in Rio) to the RKO directors and employees from Brazil, Argentina and Latin America, in English version, in the projection room of the ship. They agreed to make a version of the movie in their languages. The 35mm copy of the movie was sent to New York and then shipped on the ship that was coming for the first time in Brazil.
Snow White's voice was the most difficult to be found; all Radio voices and actresses of the time auditionned for the role.
Both Dalva de Oliveira and Maria Clara Tati Jacome traveled to Europe to attend the Premiere of the movie in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Teatro Politeama.
Dalva de Oliveira died in 1972, at 55 years-old, of hemorrhage due to esophageal cancer.
In the 1965 dubbing, the name of João Alberto Persson was wrongly written as "Perssom"; while Lourdes Mayer was credited as "Meyer".
Maria Alice Barreto, the speaking voice in the second dubbing, would sing for Snow White at first; but her singing style (Bossa Nova) was too different from the character's songs style.
Due to the evolution of the Portuguese language, Sleepy was named Somneca in the first dubbing, and Soneca in the second one. However, the old spelling can be seen on the 2001 DVD and VHS editions, on the dwarf's bed, even though the 1965 dubbing is used in this edition. The Queen's spell book scenes have the new spelling in both 1994 and 2001 editions, except for one shot about Love's First Kiss (picture 4), where the words 'Somno' (now Sono) and 'Victima' (now Vítima) were kept with the old spelling :