When Dodie Smith first introduced Cruella de Vil in her novel The One Hundred and One Dalmatians, she called immediate attention to the villain’s outfit. The book’s human protagonists, Mr. and Mrs.
For a character that gets a little less than nine minutes of screen time in her 1961 screen debut, Cruella de Vil has an outsized legacy. Over the years, the villain of Disney’s original animated “101 ...
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961); 101 Dalmatians (1996); Cruella (2021) Credit - Disney/AF archive /Alamy; Walt Disney/Alamy; Disney Though this is the first time we’re seeing Cruella de Vil’s ...