When was cruella de vil created

Sure, she lies, steals and hot-wires a luxury car, but she has a clear motive: revenge. And, as a lower-middle-class girl who becomes a rising fashion star by cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors, weirdly relatable.

View in App. Follow Us. Many viewers, surely, would have struggled to find empathy for a dog-killer. Write to Annabel Gutterman at annabel. By Annabel Gutterman. Dodie Smith, author of ' Dalmatians', sitting outside her cottage with a pet Dalmatian in Essex, July 23, Tallulah Bankhead was said to partially inspire the animated version of Cruella de Vil. Glenn Close in Dalmations. But as a studio shot of the demure year-old actress with a permanent wave and pearls suggests, she was no use as visual inspiration.

So the studio brought in Mary Wickes, a consummate character actress, who towered over her peers at a gangly 5ft 10in. Wickes, whose last role before she died in was voicing a gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, captured Cruella's flamboyant physicality on film — the swirl of her coat, her thrown-back head, her wild gesturing with an improbably long cigarette-holder — giving the animator a human frame of reference.

Marc Davis, one of Disney's "nine old men", as he called his most senior animators, brought both together, adding his own magic draughtsmanship to create Cruella, his last piece of animation for Disney in a career that saw him bring to life Thumper, Alice, Tinkerbell and both the evil fairy Maleficent and Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.

Despite the broad brush strokes of Cruella's silhouette with its ghoulish skull, blood-red slash of a mouth and bony body, with Davis's animation, the devil is in the delicious details — from the sizzle of her cerise cigarette as she stubs it out in a cupcake, to her hair coming alive like Medusa's as the wind rushes through it in her sports car and her "at-home" outfit of black fur negligee and pink rollers.

It was popularly believed that Davis based Cruella on the fast-living Hollywood star Tallulah Bankhead, who was notorious for zooming around town in her Bentley and whose last words were apparently "codeine In , Disney released its live-action remake, with Cruella remodelled as a fashion-house maven in the mould of American Vogue's redoubtable and fur-loving Anna Wintour. But Glenn Close's dominatrix-style performance didn't come close to the cadaverous charm of the animated Cruella, as the indomitable year-old Gerson pointed out to Sibley at the time.

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