Alice in Wonderland (1931 film)
- Ruth Gilbert: Alice
- Ralph Hertz: White Rabbit
- Lillian Ardell: cook
- Mabel Wright: Duchess
- Leslie King: Mad Hatter
- Meyer Berensen March Hare
- Raymond Schultz: dormouse
- Tom Corless: Cheshire Cat
- Jimmy Roses: caterpillar
- Vie Quinn: Queen of Hearts
- Gus Alexander: green turtle
- Charles Silvern: Griffin
Alice in Wonderland is an American black and white film from the year 1931. It is the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland as a sound film and thus the first film used the work of Lewis Carroll. The premiere was held in New York at the Warner Theatre.
Action
Alice follows a white rabbit into Wonderland, where she meets the ill-tempered cook and the Duchess. She attends a tea party, where she meets the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat while leaving her grin. They upset the caterpillar and the Queen of Hearts threatening to behead them. With the Duchess Alice meets the grip and the green turtle. After a grotesque process Alice is tired of the strange events.
Background
The film was staged in 1931 as a low -budget production in the Metropolitan Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey with amateur actors. It was created in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the author Lewis Carroll in the following year, which caused an Alice - fever both in North America and in Europe. In the United States they tried to make money with numerous films, songs and puppetry shows about Alice in Wonderland. For example, Betty Boop was the cartoon Betty in Blunderland to Wonderland, just like Eva Le Gallienne in 1932 in the Broadway show "Alice in Wonderland", which was one of the hits this year. Irving Berlin composed a Alice - in-Wonderland - song while Paramount with great effort, an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland with the cast Charlotte Henry, WC Fields, Cary Grant and Gary Cooper produced. In 1932, Alice Liddell finally came, the inspiration for the "Alice" the original book, and now an elderly lady to America to take part in the anniversary celebrations.
Due to this interest, the film premiered Theater in New York at the prestigious Warner.