The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland, film versions.
Alice in Wonderland , a classic Victorian fantasy, has proved more difficult than most to bring to the screen. The rambling, dream‐like structure coupled with the book's literary stature and the renown of the original John Tenniel drawings have created problems for a range of film‐makers.

Alice in Wonderland (film: USA, 1933) combined the first Alice book with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. The result is a series of assorted incidents which come and go without much relation to each other. Further, the Tenniel factor influenced the director to decide that each of the actors must wear a Tenniel‐style mask of the character being portrayed; thus an array of stars including Gary Cooper (the White Knight), Cary Grant (the Mock Turtle), W. C. Fields (Humpty Dumpty), and Jack Oakie (Tweedledum) are heard...

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