Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song) representing an element of Adam Ant’s personality. The video ends with Adam smashing a mirror, then singing the "Prince Charming, Prince Charming/Ridicule is nothing to be scared of" refrain as different characters: the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"), Alice Cooper, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Rudolph Valentino from the silent film "The Sheik"), and his own "Dandy highwayman" from the "Stand and Deliver" video. The music video was one of Diana Dors' last on-screen performances. According to Adam, Prince Charming is based on Beau Brummell. Pirroni described the song as "A cleverer
Prince Charming hero's name as "Charming"; the second, for "The Green Fairy Book", as "King Charming". Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, this may have been the original use of "Charming". Then, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" refers ironically to "Prince Charming", perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actress's "Prince Charming", but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide. In the early Disney animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), when Snow White tells the dwarfs