Which Disney princess was the first ever, created in 1937?

The first Disney Princess, created for the 1937 film, was Snow White.

Snow White is the heroine of Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film draws from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale first published in 1812, but Disney transformed the story into a feature-length musical with a sympathetic central heroine, comic dwarfs and memorable songs.

The film premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles on December 21, 1937, before its wider American release in February 1938. Its success established animation as a major feature-film medium and made Snow White the prototype for Disney’s later princess characters.

Snow White is often described as Disney’s first Princess, though the company’s formal Disney Princess franchise was created decades later. She is also notable as the first fictional female character to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Common mix-ups include Aurora, who debuted in 1959’s Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella, whose animated film arrived in 1950.