Frozen didn’t start the gripes about Disney faces — it’s been an issue for 70 years

polygon.com:

Not all female protagonists in Disney movies are Disney Princesses, but viewers have routinely complained that all female protagonists in Disney’s animated features share the same face. You know that face — pleasantly round, with rosy cheeks, a dainty button nose, ginormous long-lashed eyes, and pale pink lips with a perfect cupid’s bow.

The think pieces about the similarities between Disney’s female faces have been done. I’m not here to retread familiar ground. Instead, I want to point out that like many things Disney has been criticized for, the criticisms of the studio’s same-face syndrome isn’t new to the digital age. Frozen rekindled the debate for modern audiences, but people have been pointing out that all Disney women share the same bland face since the beginning of Disney animation.

A Century of Disney

Disney kickstarted its animation dominance with a round-faced, cherubic-lipped, long-eyelashed princess: Snow White, the fairest of them all. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs set a high bar for Disney, inviting critical comparisons to its design and story for years afterward. Critics as far back as the 1950s noticed that Cinderella, Aurora, and other early Disney protagonists shared very similar designs to Snow White. One Variety reviewer pointed out that Cinderella (and also her bland prince) felt “colorless” and “doll-faced” — but that other characters in Disney’s Cinderella, like the wicked stepsisters and the king, were more inventively designed. It’s telling which characters get to look unique, and which must adhere to that same-face syndrome.

In 2013, a Frozen animator’s quote about female characters being difficult to animate because they need to stay “pretty” made headlines. Regardless of the actual