Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#1

Posted: 9/7/14 at 10:05pm

...in Snow White (1987).

If you want a fun/camp treat before the Monday morning blues kick in tomorrow, here you are. You're welcome.

Anybody actually ever see this movie?
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[BroomstickBoy]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#2

Posted: 9/8/14 at 2:22am

I love this clip. I love her IN this clip. She's fantastic in this movie, appropriately camp but still perfect for the role.

I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)

[EricMontreal22]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#2

Posted: 9/8/14 at 3:03am

Ha I loved this bizarre movie as a kid! Completely forgot about it! And Rigg's Evil Queen went disguised in a kinda offensive piece of Orientalism to tempt Snow WHite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4TgD761Mrs

[beautywickedlover]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#3

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:10pm

I remember watching this when I was younger and Diana Rigg was a terrific Evil Queen. To this day, I still think the actress playing Snow White, Sarah Patterson, is probably the most beautiful woman ever to play Snow White in a live-action film. After this movie, she only did a few more films on and off several years later. What's interesting about this film is that it follows the version where Snow White spent many years with the dwarfs and was not poisoned as a little girl and did not spend years in the glass coffin.

[EricMontreal22]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#4

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:18pm

And as one of those clips shows, she wakes up when the Prince moves her in the glass coffin and the carriage stumbles, freeing the apple from her throat (which, oddly, then flies all the way to the castle and hits the Queen in the face while she's sleeping...) instead of the Disney kiss thing.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#5

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:34pm

Whatever happened to the King in this movie? He just disappeared.

It's weird watching it again for the first time since I was a child. Some bits I remember so well, and other stuff I have absolutely no memory of.

The ending was well done, I think, where Diana gets increasingly older as she approaches Snow White on her wedding day, eventually crumbling into dust and blowing away on the wind. I do remember that part scaring the bejeezus out of me.

Most of it doesn't really hold up - Dame Diana is the definite highlight.

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[Borstalboy]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#6

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:49pm

There's a touch of Shirley Bassey in her vowel phrasing.

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[EricMontreal22]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#7

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:35pm

For a late 80s direct to cable/video production it's better than it should be, but I'd love to know the backstory behind such a bizarre film.

And Diana was in Follies right around the same time...

Updated On: 9/8/14 at 09:35 PM

[beautywickedlover]

Diana Rigg as the Evil Queen, singing#8

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:36pm

"Whatever happened to the King in this movie? He just disappeared."

A dwarf said at one point in the film that the King died during a battle.