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‘A DOGGY FAIRY TALE’1
The film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) and better known as a playwright during the 1930s and as writer of I Capture the Castle (1948), was not unlike Cruella de Vil in some respects: ‘All her clothes were black and white; she lived in a black and white flat, and she had often said in jest that all she needed now was a Dalmatian’ (Grove 1997: 91). By 1934 her future husband had given Dodie her first Dalmatian, Pongo. Like Cruella, Smith was deeply style-conscious, being original rather than slavish to trends, and her trademark was a mink coat that she wore into her nineties. During her prolonged ‘exile’ in the United States ...
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