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That's a 30-year-old woman you're bringing me.

— Walt Disney

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1936 during the casting for 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, referring to eleven-year-old actress Deanna Durbin, according to Adriana Caselotti (the 19-year-old actress who got the role of Snow White) in a 15 July 1983 interview written by Dan Brown of Washington Post

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