Walt Disney Studios is facing a mass protest from small actors and actresses over the decision to replace Snow White’s seven dwarves with CGI characters.

Disney chiefs face being confronted by "a lot of angry little people" in a pint-sized protest over the decision to ditch dwarfs from the new Snow White movie. Hundreds of Hollywood’s smallest stars will descend on the film giant’s HQ this week to complain at the move to deploy computer-generated cartoons as mini-men instead of the real thing.

Actors with dwarfism are planning to rally outside Disney Studios in protest at the company's $250m remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which replaces the original characters with CGI figures.Actress Ali Chapman,