- Is it true that it wasn't published until the Grimm Brothers came along?
- Yes, just about a hundred years ago.
7 seconds sound clip from the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:56:38 in the radio play.
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- You'll be sorry, Mr. DeMille.
- Tell me, just how old a story is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
- Well, it's so old that no one knows when or where it was first told.
- Is it true that it wasn't published until the Grimm Brothers came along?
- Yes, just about a hundred years ago.
- Jacob Grimm was a very learned man, a scientist. You'd hardly think he'd go in for fairy tales.
- Age, language, race make no difference. What's the secret?
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