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Smith Dorothy Gladys "Dodie"
(1896—1990)
«The One Hundred and One Dalmatians»

Smith Dorothy Gladys "Dodie"(1896—1990)  «The One Hundred and One Dalmatians»

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright.

She was born at Whitefield, near Bury in Lancashire, but her family soon moved to a detached house in Old Trafford, Manchester. The formative years of her childhood were spent at this house. Her father, Ernest Smith, died when Dodie was a baby, and her mother, Ella Furber Smith, remarried when Dodie was 14, at which time the family relocated to London. In 1914, Dodie entered the Academy (later Royal Academy) of Dramatic Art, and Ella died of breast cancer. During Ella's illness, mother and daughter became followers of Christian Science.

Dodie unsuccessfully pursued a career as an actress. In 1923, she took a job in Heals furniture store in London and became the toy buyer (and a mistress of the chairman, Ambrose Heal). She authored her first play, Autumn Crocus, in 1931 under the pseudonym C.L. Anthony. Its success, and the discovery of her identity by journalists, inspired the newspaper headline, "Shopgirl Writes Play".

She spent most of her years as a writer living in a townhouse in London, where a plaque now commemorates her occupation. In 1939, she married Alec Beesley, another employee at Heal's.

During the 1940s, she and her husband moved to the United States due to legal difficulties with Beesley's stand as a conscientious objector. While living in the U.S. and feeling homesick for England, she wrote her first novel, I Capture the Castle (1948). During the American interlude, the Beesleys became friends with writers Christopher Isherwood, Charles Brackett, and John Van Druten.

Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) (which was rather loosely adapted into the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians). Her novel I Capture the Castle also has a devoted following (a film version was released in 2003).

Smith died in 1990 and named Julian Barnes as her literary executor, a job she felt would not be much work. Barnes writes of the complicated task in his essay "Literary Executions", revealing among other things how he secured the return of the film rights to I Capture the Castle, which had been held by Disney since 1949. (Barnes, 2003). Smith's personal papers are housed in Boston University's Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center, and include manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and correspondence (including letters from Christopher Isherwood and John Gielgud).


Belgium, 2006, Dalmatin

Caicos islands, 1983, Goofy and puppies

Fujeira, 1972, Pongo's solitude

Fujeira, 1972, Perdita on walk

Fujeira, 1972, Roger and Pongo

Fujeira, 1972, Provoked meeting

Fujeira, 1972, Cruella de Ville

Fujeira, 1972, Nanni's affection

Fujeira, 1972, Dog's family

Fujeira, 1972, Cruella proposes the sale

Fujeira, 1972, Jasper and Horace

Fujeira, 1972, Nanny discovers the robbery

Fujeira, 1972, Listen to the advice

Fujeira, 1972, The Dalmatians' friends

Fujeira, 1972, The pups and their kidnapers

Fujeira, 1972, Horace's stumble

Fujeira, 1972, Camouflage

Fujeira, 1972, Cruella's rage

Fujeira, 1972, Geatway

Fujeira, 1972, Towards freedom

Fujeira, 1972, Happy re-encounter

Fujeira, 1972, The Dalmatians

Gambia, 1997, Dipstick

Gambia, 1997, Fidget

Gambia, 1997, Jewel

Gambia, 1997, Lucky

Gambia, 1997, Two-Tone

Gambia, 1997, Wizzer

Gambia, 1997, Playing

Gambia, 1997, In the mud

Gambia, 1997, With the butterfly

Gambia, 1997, Lying down

Gambia, 1997, With a ball

Gambia, 1997, With a bone

Gambia, 1997, Pulling the tail

Gambia, 1997, Pulling the ears

Gambia, 1997, With Teddy bear

Gambia, 1997, Having a nap

Gambia, 1997, With a hose

Gambia, 1997, With a bottle

Gambia, 1997, Inside a cookie jar

Gambia, 1997, Putting a makeup

Gambia, 1997, With make up on lips

Gambia, 1997, Playing with a piece of string

Gambia, 1997, With the computer

Gambia, 1997, Beneath a lamb

Gambia, 1997, Cruella de Ville

Gambia, 1997, Parent's Portrait

Gambia, 1997, Delivering mail

Gambia, 1997, Painting

Gambia, 1997, With video games

Grenada, 1983, Morty and Dalmatin

Grenada Grenadines, 1988, 101 dalmations

Grenada Grenadines, 1988, 101 dalmations

Guyana, 1991, Disney Cartoons's Heroes

Guyana, 1991, Disney's characters

Guyana, 1999, Dalmatians Express

Guyana, 1999, Dalmatians Express

Japan, 2012, Disney Characters

Madagaskar, 1999, Glenn Close, «101 Dalmatians»

Netherlands, 2008, Dalmatians

Palau, 1996, Pongo and Perdita

Redonda, 1982, Pongo and Perdita

Redonda, 1982, Wedding

Redonda, 1982, Cruella de Ville

Redonda, 1982, Nanny

Redonda, 1982, The Pups watches TV

Redonda, 1982, Pongo, Perdita and Dogo

Redonda, 1982, Cruella de Ville, Jasper and Horace

Redonda, 1982, Tibbs and pups

Redonda, 1982, Dogs dirty with soot

Redonda, 1982, 101 Dalmatians

Sao Tome e Principe, 2008, Madonna and Dodie Smith

Sierra Leone, 1991, 101 Dalmatians

Sierra Leone, 1991, Disney Cartoon characters

Tanzania, 1990, Cruella de Vil

Tanzania, 1991, Christmas card 1968

Tanzania, 1991, Christmas card 1968

USA, 2008, Pongo and poppy

France, 1997, Dalmatines

USA, 2008, Pongo and poppy

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