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Dodie Smith
English children's novelist and playwright (1896-1990) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 94
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967).
Dodie Smith is read about 199 times a day, in 35 languages.
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Walt Disney Produced One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Olivia de Havilland Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Alice Brady Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Bonita Granville Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)- Wolfgang Reitherman Directed One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Peggy Wood Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Anita Louise Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Una O'Connor Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Mitchell Leisen Directed Darling, How Could You! (1951)
Clyde Geronimi Directed One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Roland Young Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Hamilton Luske Directed One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Charles Brackett Produced The Uninvited (1944)
Beryl Mercer Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Frieda Inescort Dodie directed Call It a Day (1937)
Buddy DeSylva Produced The Uninvited (1944)
Lewis Allen Directed The Uninvited (1944)
Queenie Leonard Also in The Uninvited (1944)
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel 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), and was adapted into a film released the same year.
