With the case of Scarlett Johansson suing Disney and Emma Stone considering it , many wonder if the actresses who gave life to Black Widow and Cruella respectively have a chance to face the company of the mouse. And it is that, many stars prefer to avoid legal conflicts and more when it comes to such large companies, Evangelina Elizondo is not one of those cases. The Mexican confronted the company on two occasions, however she did not receive any profit from it.
The actress and singer gave voice to the original Cinderella and died at 88 years, from of hepatitis C, in the middle of the legal battle against the giant of the animation. Here we tell you his story,
In 1959, When I had 21 years, participated in a radio contest to choose the woman who would dub into Spanish the character of Cinderella for the Disney animated film. Her talent overcame the other participants and became the voice in Spanish of the emblematic character.
The actress became the voice of the character in the film and also recorded the songs in Spanish, without However, in the nineties, the company refused to pay him for the retransmission of the film and the sale of records . Elizondo filed a first lawsuit that he lost because the judge ruled that had no way of proving that he had worked for Disney.
In an interview he gave to the medium El Universal in the year 2003, the actress assured that she no longer had the contract, but there were witnesses in her favor. “I am not going to stop fighting in court because what they have done is steal their royalties from all Mexican actors,” he condemned. Thus, seven years after the first lawsuit, Elizondo managed to file another one against the Mickey Mouse studios. The actress asked for the royalties of the time that the production company had marketed with her voice of Cinderella .
In a first approach, the company offered him ten thousand dollars, however Elizondo did not took because he demanded the amount that really corresponded to him.
During the following years the legal conflict was maintained, without much news, when in October the emblematic actress passed away, the The media assured that the actress was about to win the millionaire lawsuit against Disney. Before she died, she knew she would probably never see her payment. “I think they will not give me the money, but it does not matter, what I want is a sentence,” he told the media in 2006.
The truth is that the exact amount that corresponded to Evangelina is not known, according to an interview that the actress gave in 2006, the film had raised $ 178 million pesos and of that amount they had to pay him 40%. In 2019, The country reported that the actress did indeed win the lawsuit, but this only caused her voice to double disappear and never be used again.
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