PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- She's brilliant, bad, and a little bit mad. It's finally time to find out just how Cruella de Vil came to be one of Disney's most storied villains. "Cruella" hits theaters and ...

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.

The young Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland) with the black and white hair is immediately adorable. She’s bullied at school and gets in trouble for fighting back. How relatable it is that the bullies ...

As introduced in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Cruella de Vil (Betty Lou Gerson) is not an especially complicated character. None of the character’s lasting appeal has anything to do with her ...

Back in 1961, when the animated Disney classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians was first released, it could only be seen in theaters. Thanks to VHS tape, grown-up Baby Boomer kids were able to share ...

Disney loves to do live-action remakes of their animated classics, but they also like something else: renegade origin stories for once-feared villains. It worked with Maleficent, sprung from Sleeping ...

It’s Emma Stone vs. Emma Thompson in this often-dazzling if ultimately confused live-action origin story for one of Disney’s most iconic villains. It may seem counterintuitive, but the easiest way to ...

Character names don’t come any better than Cruella de Vil — you know, the fur-loving, dog-detesting “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” villainess with the shock of white hair. The 1961 Disney animated ...

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For decades, Cruella de Vil has been known as one of Disney’s most evil characters. “Cruel” and “devil” are literally in her name. She’s on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest ...