She then chases the White Rabbit (Richard “Skeets” Gallagher) down a rabbit hole people who’ve seen the Disney movie will recognize a sped-up version of the series of events in this film. After walking through the looking glass, Alice (19-year-old Charlotte Henry) encounters living chess pieces. It absolutely flies through each of Alice’s interactions with Wonderland folks. Even so, the movie is only 76 minutes long. This version of Alice in Wonderland actually adapts both Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its follow-up Through the Looking Glass. You’d never know it was him if not for the credits. Fields played Humpty Dumpty a very young Cary Grant in a massive costume and puppet head plays the Mock Turtle. Gary Cooper plays the White Knight star comedian W.C. But some of these people are, or would become, major stars. A lot of these people you won’t recognize unless you’re very steeped in 1930s cinema. A storybook’s pages turn and with each one, we see one of Wonderland’s characters, which then fades into the headshot and name of actor who plays them. The film opens with a four-minute curtain call-style credits sequence. The movie acted as a kind of who’s who of the studio’s contract stars. Menzies was also the film’s art director and would have an illustrious career as production designer and director, on things like Things to Come and Invaders from Mars.Īs for the cast, this is where Paramount shot the moon. Mankiewicz came from a Hollywood dynasty and would go on to write and direct Oscar-winning films A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. The writers of the screenplay for Alice in Wonderland were Joseph L. McLeod was Paramount’s choice of director, having just helmed two of the studio’s Marx Bros movies, Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers, (1932). It is a price tag, displaying the price ‘ten and six’: 10 shillings and 6 pennies.Norman Z. Many people wonder about the tag on the Mad Hatter’s hat. It is also often suggested that Tenniel made the Mad Hatter resemble the politician Disraeli, but other people argument that he was based on a local furniture dealer called Carter, or on Thomas Randall, an Oxford tailor. Carter was known in the area as the Mad Hatter, partly because he always wore a top hat and because of his eccentric ideas. ‘Mad as a hatter’ probably owes its origin to the fact that hatters actually did go mad, because the mercury they used sometimes gave them mercury poisoning.Ĭarroll may have asked Tenniel to draw the Mad Hatter to resemble Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer near Oxford. The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ was common in Carroll’s time. In Tim Burton’s 2010 movie, the Hatter’s name is Tarrant Hightopp. In ‘Through the Looking-Glass’, the Hatter returns in the form of the Anglo-Saxon messenger ‘Hatta’.Īlthough everybody calls him ‘the Mad Hatter’, Lewis Carroll never actually called him that in the story. The Hatter is mentioned in chapter 7 and 11 from the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. When he is called upon by the Queen, he is very nervous and frightened. He occasionally is very rude and provokes Alice during the tea party. Later he also appears as a witness during the trial. The Mad Hatter is one of the members of the Mad Tea Party.
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