"One Hundred and One Dalmatians One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1956 novel ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" by Dodie Smith. The 17th Disney animated feature film, the film tells the story of a litter of Dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil, who wants to use their fur to make into coats. Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their children from Cruella, all the while rescuing 84 additional puppies that were bought in"
"Cruella de Vil Cruella de Vil (spelled de Vil in the novel, spelled De Vil by Disney) is a character created by Dodie Smith as the main antagonist of her 1956 novel ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" and in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film adaptations ""101 Dalmatians"" (1961), """" (2003), and Disney's live-action film adaptations ""101 Dalmatians"" (1996) and ""102 Dalmatians"" (2000). She was originally voiced by Betty Lou Gerson, after that, she has been voiced by April Winchell (), Tress MacNeille (TV series, two episodes), and Susanne Blakeslee (currently) and was portrayed live by Glenn Close (""101 Dalmatians"" and"
"Storybrooke"". Cruella De Vil appears in the 2015 Disney Channel Original Movie ""Descendants"". She is portrayed by actress Wendy Raquel Robinson. Along with other villains, Cruella has been exiled to the Isle of the Lost, where she has lived for at least twenty years. She has a 14-year-old son, Carlos, whom she abuses and treats like a servant, making him sleep near the bear traps she uses to guard her fur coats. Cruella de Vil has become one of the most recognizable literary and film villains, and as such as featured prominently in popular culture: In ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Two"
"on November 22, 2000. After the first live-action version of the film, an animated series titled """" was launched. The designs of the characters were stylized further to allow for economic animation and to appeal to contemporary trends. """", the official sequel to the original animated film, was released direct-to-video on January 21, 2003. Disney has announced that another live-action film is in development, but it will focus on the origin of Cruella de Vil. Emma Stone is set to play Cruella and Alex Timbers was in negotiations to direct the film. In December 2018, it was announced that Timbers"
"Maud and David Suchet as Blott. In 1987 ""Porterhouse Blue"" was adapted for television, again by Bradbury, in four episodes for Channel 4. It starred David Jason as Skullion and Ian Richardson as Sir Godber Evans. In 1989 ""Wilt"" was made into a film by LWT, featuring Griff Rhys Jones as Henry Wilt, Mel Smith as Inspector Flint and Alison Steadman as Eva Wilt. Michael Dirda said in an interview: ""Tom Sharpe is very funny — but exceptionally vulgar, crude and offensive. Many view him as Britain's funniest living novelist. Most people feel that his first two novels, set in"
"school. Ben, the teenaged son of King Beast and Queen Belle, invites the exiled children of defeated villains to attend a prep school with the heroes' children, among them Carlos, the son of Cruella de Vil. On September 30, 2013, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" confirmed that Disney is planning a live-action Cruella de Vil film titled ""Cruella"" with Andrew Gunn and Glenn Close as producer and executive producer respectively. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna most known for writing ""The Devil Wears Prada"" was set to write it for Disney. On January 6, 2016, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" announced that Kelly Marcel, who wrote"
"demon). In the French translation of the Disney's animated movie, she is referred as ""Cruella D'Enfer"" (Literally, Cruella of Hell or from Hell). In Dutch, the name remains ""De Vil"", while by coincidence the Dutch verb for skinning is ""Villen"" and ""Vil"" is the conjugation of this verb for the first person singular. In Portuguese, Cruella is known as ""Cruela Cruel"", which straightforwardly stems from ""cruel"". The name ""de Vil"" is also a literary allusion to Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897). In the novel, the realty firm Mitchell, Sons & Candy write a letter, dated 1 October, to Lord Godalming, informing"
"of these new owners eventually surrendered their animals to pounds, where many dogs ended up being euthanized. A sequel, ""102 Dalmatians"", was released on November 22, 2000. The film's early working title was ""101 Dalmatians Returns."" Disney is planning a live-action Cruella de Vil prequel titled ""Cruella"" directed by Alex Timbers. Marc Platt and Andrew Gunn will produce; Glenn Close is executive producer. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna was set to write it, but Kelly Marcel replaced her. Emma Stone will play the eponymous role. Alex Timbers had originally signed on to direct the film, but he left the project in"
"literally baked into a massive cake and arrested along with Le Pelt, both being sentenced to life in prison for their actions. A live-action Cruella de Vil film is in development by Disney. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna most known for writing ""The Devil Wears Prada"" is set to write the film for Disney, with Andrew Gunn as the producer, and Alex Timbers as director while Emma Stone is set to play the role. In December 2018, it was announced that Timbers will no longer be directing the live-action Cruella de Vil film due to scheduling conflicts and will be replaced"
"""101 Dalmatians"". A scrappy puppy tries to rescue his siblings after evil Cruella kidnaps them. 101 Dalmatians is a 1996 British-American live-action family comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Stephen Herek. It is the second adaptation of Dodie Smith's 1956 novel ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" produced by Walt Disney Pictures following the 1961 animated adventure comedy film of the same name. The film stars Glenn Close as the iconic villainess Cruella de Vil, and Jeff Daniels as Roger, the owner of the 101 dalmatians. Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in"
"Dalmatian puppies run through the forest. In 1920s England, a young Cruella De Vil is being mistreated by her mother Madeline as she instructs her Dalmatians to chase her daughter, and is locked in the attic in the same setting that resembles the novel ""Flowers in the Attic"". Fast forward to several years later, and that a reporter, who is revealed to the Author but is using an alias by the name of Isaac, is paying a visit to the home pretending to seek out a story after having seen Cruella from the attic, only to have Madeline warning him"
"Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys ""Dodie"" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1956). Other works include ""I Capture the Castle"" (1948), and ""The Starlight Barking"" (1967). ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel ""I Capture the Castle"" was adapted into a 2003 movie version. ""I Capture the Castle"" was voted number 82 as ""one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels"" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003)."
"the novel. She was portrayed by Rachel York; however, the actress announced on her blog that she had stepped down from the role of Cruella de Vil to pursue other projects. The role was taken over by Sara Gettelfinger. Cruella first appears in the fourth book ""Power Play"", as a member of the Overtakers. She is valuable to them since she knows the ways of the modern world. Cruella works with the Evil Queen to free Maleficent and Chernabog, while making sure the Keepers stay off their trail. Using DHI technology, she and the Queen head for the power facility"
"about her, the vial of magic ink spills on her causing her blonde hair to turn into the iconic black and white. However, the pen had a remnant of ink in it, which the Author used to write down a note that would, from there on, prevent Cruella from taking another life. ""Cruella De Vil can no longer take away the life of another."" Cruella kept this secret, as intimidation would still work for her needs. She later ended up in the Enchanted Forest, where she became infamous for turning animals into outerwear. Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) recruited her, Ursula (Merrin"
"and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Joan Didion. True Confessions (novel) True Confessions is a noir novel by John Gregory Dunne and published in 1977. The novel was inspired by an actual event, the 1947 Black Dahlia murder. Los Angeles, 1946: Lois Fazenda is found cut in two pieces in a vacant lot after the murderer has taunted on the corpse. Due to the nickname ""The Virgin Tramp"", given to her just to please a journalist, a ""nice quiet little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a"
"""102 Dalmatians""), Rachel York (musical), Victoria Smurfit (""Once Upon a Time""), and Wendy Raquel Robinson (""Descendants""). The character became a pop-culture type epitomizing a person who is very, very mean. Cruella ranked 39th on AFI's list ""100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains"". Cruella's name is a pun of the words ""cruel"" and ""devil"", an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed ""Hell Hall"". In some translations, for instance in Polish, Cruella De Vil is known as ""Cruella De Mon"", a play on ""demon"". In Italian, she is called ""Crudelia De Mon"" (a pun on ""crudele"", cruel, and ""demone"","
"Woodrell's second novel, ""Woe to Live On"" (1987), was adapted for the 1999 film ""Ride with the Devil"", directed by Ang Lee. The more recent ""Winter's Bone"" (2006) was adapted by writer and director Debra Granik for a film of the same title, released commercially in June 2010 after winning two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for a dramatic film. Several critics called it one of the best films of the year and an American classic, and it received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. While filming a segment for """", Woodrell was"
"on a Sidney Sheldon novel – ""The Bourne Identity"" (also 1988); adapted from author Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name; ""Settle the Score"" (1989), ""Lies Before Kisses"", ""The Rape of Dr. Willis"" (both 1991), ""In the Arms of a Killer"" (1992), and several TV versions of Danielle Steel novels, including ""Kaleidoscope"" (1990) and ""Family Album"" (1994). In 1985, Smith starred in the feature film ""Deja Vu"", directed by her then-husband Tony Richmond. In 1989, she played the title role in ""Christine Cromwell"", a mystery television series based in San Francisco, but which only lasted one season. That same year,"
"Crack'd from Side to Side"". In 2013, Smurfit costarred as Lady Jane Wetherby in the NBC television period drama ""Dracula"". In 2014, she began playing the recurring guest role of villainess Cruella de Vil on ABC's ""Once Upon a Time"". She is currently shooting for her role in ""Homecoming"", a film she has described as a ""mean girls for grownups."" She plays Nikki, the ""head mean girl."" Smurfit married advertising executive Douglas Baxter on 29 July 2000 in Surrey, England. She gave birth to their first child, daughter Evie Dorothy Baxter in Dublin, Ireland on 2 November 2004. A second"
"appears during the Halloween Party. From the unsubtle symbolic name to her hideous physical appearance, Cruella's evil is overt. In 2002, ""Forbes"" ranked Cruella as the thirteenth wealthiest fiction character, citing the single 65-year-old has a net worth of $875 million, obtained through inheritance. Cruella was listed as the 39th greatest villain in American cinema in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. Also, in Ultimate Disney's Top 30 Disney Villains Countdown, Cruella ranked #6. Glenn Close portrayed Cruella de Vil in the 1996 film ""101 Dalmatians"" and its 2000 sequel ""102 Dalmatians"". The film reinvented Cruella as the vindictive,"
"snobbish and very glamorous magnate of a haute couture fashion house, """"House of DeVil"""", which specialised in fur couture. The character of Anita (played by Joely Richardson) was a couturière and employee of De Vil. Unlike the animated film, the live-action version gives the reason why Cruella wanted to make the puppies into coats at a young age, is that their fur wouldn't be as soft when they fully grow up. At the start of the film, it is revealed that Cruella has secretly had her henchmen slaughter a white Siberian tiger at London Zoo for its pelt. However, the"
"""Maleficent"", along with a list of other live-action adaptations of classic Disney films. Emma Stone is cast to portray Cruella de Vil. In December 2018, it was announced that Timbers will no longer be directing ""Cruella"" due to scheduling conflicts and will be replaced by the ""I, Tonya"" director Craig Gillespie. Alex Timbers Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is an American two-time Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucile Lortel Awards. His Broadway directing credits include ""Rocky"", ""Peter and"
"and wins on the bus ride back to the South. ""Norwood"" was adapted as a movie in 1970, starring Glen Campbell as the title character, with Kim Darby and the football star Joe Namath. Like ""Norwood"", his novel ""True Grit"" (1968) was first serialized in condensed form in ""The Saturday Evening Post"". The story is told in first person from the perspective of Yell County native Mattie Ross. At the time of the novel's events, she is a prim, shrewd, strong-willed, Bible-quoting 14-year-old girl. When her father is murdered in Fort Smith by Tom Chaney, a hired hand, she sets"
"three of Williams's novels were in print in the United States: ""River Girl"", ""Nothing in Her Way"" (1953), and ""A Touch of Death"" (1954). As of 2013, sixteen of Williams's novels were released as e-books by Mysterious Press. During 2014, Overlook Duckworth re-published ""Confidentially Yours"". Most of his work is currently in print in France, issued primarily by Rivages and Gallimard's ""Série noire"". At present, two of the five officially released English-language movies based on his writing are available on DVD in North America: ""Dead Calm"" (1989), directed by Phillip Noyce and featuring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, and Billy Zane,"
"(portrayed by Glenn Close) appears as the spoiled magnate of an haute couture fashion house, """"House of DeVil"""". Disney kept the book's characters Horace and Jasper Baddun, who appeared in both versions as thieves hired by Cruella to steal Pongo and Missis' puppies. (In the novel, their names are Saul and Jasper Baddun.) Disney later created an starring three of the puppies (Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig) and a sequel film for each version ("""" and ""102 Dalmatians""). The novel was also adapted into a musical. The Hundred and One Dalmatians The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or The Great Dog Robbery,"
"to prominence when he reported on the story of Susan Smith, a Union, South Carolina woman convicted of murdering her two young sons in 1994 (after initially claiming that an African-American man had carjacked her and kidnapped the children). Cogdill’s ""Susan Smith: A Question of Justice"" (1996) garnered an Emmy, leading to appearances on such outlets as NBC’s ""Today Show"", CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN. Cogdill is the author of ""She-Rain"", a novel set in rural western North Carolina in the 1920s. It was announced in 2014 that filmmaker Richard O'Sullivan had adapted ""She-Rain"" as a screenplay and that plans to"
"Double Act (film) Double Act is a TV adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's best selling book, ""Double Act"". The telefilm was made in 2001 for Channel 4 and screened in 2002, starring Birmingham twins, Zoe and Chloe Tempest-Jones. It was directed by Cilla Ware. It was the last acting role of Charlotte Coleman before she died. Ruby and Garnet are identical twins, who once lived with their Dad and their Gran in Birmingham. Their mother, Opal died a few years earlier. They are happy together, but then Dad gets a new girlfriend, Rose. The twins and Gran hate her. Dad decides"
"him that the purchaser of a house in Piccadilly, London is ""a foreign nobleman, Count De Ville"". Count De Ville, however, proves to be an alias for Count Dracula himself. It is also believed that the inspiration for the name began in 1939 when Dodie Smith purchased a new Rolls-Royce 25/30 ""Sedanca de Ville"" motorcar in which she and her pet Dalmatian ""Pongo"" frequently travelled, which also formed the basis of the cartoon imagery of Cruella's own motorcar. In the original story, Cruella is depicted as a pampered and glamorous London heiress who knows the owner of the Dalmatian puppies"
"of bloodletting in Chilean literature. It was said (or argued) that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation's letters."" Bonsái was eventually translated into several languages, such as English at Melville Publishing House by Carolina Robertis. Just five years later, the book was turned into a film of the same name directed by Christían Jiménez, and presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. In this second novel, a writer tells his stepdaughter a bedtime story called ""The Private Lives of Trees"" (same title as the novel), which he plans to end"
"and starring Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder. Silver is also the author of the bestselling ""Behind the Moss Curtain and Other Great Savannah Stories"" (Bonaventure, 2002), now in its sixth printing and also the subject of a new motion picture. His latest book, ""When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama"" (Bonaventure, 2005), is a collection of the author's favorite stories about starting out as a rock concert promoter and eventually becoming an assistant to the Dalai Lama. The novel Velvet by Echo LaVeaux () is a paranormal romantic drama set in the historic district of Savannah and features the city as"
"Bonnaire, was one of the few film adaptations of her work that she was happy with. The novel was also filmed in 1986 with Rita Tushingham. Chabrol made ""La Demoiselle d'honneur"" in 2004, based on ""The Bridesmaid"". Other adaptations are ""Diary of the Dead"" (1976), from the book ""One Across, Two Down""; the 1997 Pedro Almodóvar film ""Live Flesh""; ""The Tree of Hands"", directed by Giles Foster for Granada with Lauren Bacall (U.S. title: ""Innocent Victim""); and another version of ""The Tree of Hands"", ""Betty Fisher et autres histoires"" (2001, a.k.a. ""Alias Betty""), with screenplay and direction by Claude Miller."
"and she can get the farm. When Anita goes swimming, she makes her move on him. She asks him to go swimming with her and then tries to kiss him, but her suit is deflated by the puppies' chicken friend, and she turns into a surfboard. Note: In two of the episodes of the classic ""101 Dalmatians"" animated series ""Fungus Among Us"" and ""Close But No Cigar"", Cruella De Vil is voiced by Tress MacNeille instead of April Winchell who normally voices Cruella in the TV series. Cruella also appears as the main antagonist in the Broadway musical based on"
"2006 and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Her fifth crime novel, ""Lasting Damage,"" was published in the UK on 17 February 2011. ""Kind of Cruel"", her seventh psychological thriller to feature the characters Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer, was published in 2012. Her 2008 novel ""The Point of Rescue"" was produced for TV as the two-part drama ""Case Sensitive"" and shown on 2 and 3 May 2011 on the UK's ITV network. It stars Olivia Williams in the lead role of DS Charlie Zailer and Darren Boyd as DC Simon Waterhouse. Its first showing had 5.4 million viewers. A"