HI HO! HATS!

February 13, 1938

On December 21, 1937, Walt Disney Studios released Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, an animated motion picture based on the fairy tale of the same name. The immense popularity of the film – even just by mid-February 1938, had already begun to have an effect on popular culture, including fashion. Here, actress and model Lucille Ball shows off two hats inspired by the film.  

The actor who voiced Sneezy was named Billy Gilbert, who had done four films with Lucille Ball and would do one more in 1942. He got the part because he was famous for his sneezing gag!  Voice artist Pinto Colvig (Sleepy, Dopey, and Grumpy) and June Foray (Squirrels) would later do animal voices on Lucille Ball’s sitcoms. Moroni Olsen (The Magic Mirror) would later play the Judge in “The Courtroom” (ILL S2;E7). 

This quick fashion note found its way into the February 8, 1938 Springfield Leader and Press (MO).  No photo, however. 

The same date that these hats appeared in newspapers, Lucille Ball was heard on “The Phil Baker Radio Show” on CBS. 

The evening’s program was titled “Ten Nights in an Apothecary Shop”. 

Also on this date in ‘38, the Chicago Tribune ran this brief item about Lucille Ball’s generosity and how it came back to her tenfold.