During a story meeting on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he referred to the scene when the dwarfs pile on top of each other as a 'nigger pile' and during casting of Song of the South he used the term pickaninny.
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During a story meeting on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he referred to the scene when the dwarfs pile on top of each other as a 'nigger pile' and during casting of Song of the South he used the term pickaninny.
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Cited by biographer Neal Gabler in a meeting
Undated, but related to Snow White (1937) and Song of the South (1946)
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