Not Happy or Sneezy: Tubby, Deafy, and 14 More Offensive Dwarfs That Were Nixed From Snow White in 1937

Can you name the seven dwarfs from Snow White? (Insert hand-raised emoji here.) Disney’s first princess counted Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey as her roommates in the wildly successful animated feature—but original concept art from the 1937 film is now revealing that there were actually 16 other dwarfs who were almost part of Snow White’s posse. Why’d they end up on the cutting room floor, you ask? This group of almost-characters were all nixed because of their borderline offensive names.

The 16 would-be dwarfs had monikers that most often made reference to appearances or disabilities rather than personality or attitude. Some of the most egregious examples include Tubby, Baldy, Deafy, and Shorty. The other 12 who didn’t survive the chopping block are: Wheezy, Lazy, Jumpy, Dizzey, Hickey, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Puffy, Stuffy, and Burpy. (Certainly not appropriate cohorts for “the fairest of them all.”) These names surfaced nearly 80 years after the film’s release thanks to Bonham’s in New York, which recently brought to auction 32 pieces of original artwork from Disney’s 1937 production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs—check out some of the sketches below.

Snow White is Disney’s first full-length animated feature, and one of its most successful. It is one of the top 10 performers in North American box office history, is preserved in the National Film Registry, and is ranked on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films. In other words, Disney producers made the right choice in axing those 16 controversial dwarfs.

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