Why? Possibly it was because the witch in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" had been such a memorable villainess two years earlier, in Disney's 1937 animated hit. "I have a feeling it might have ...

the long crooked nose and toothless grin of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, or Margaret Hamilton’s melting, sickly-skinned Wicked Witch of the West. It was a vision of the ...