What is One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
{{italictitle}} {{redlinks|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox Movie | name = 101 Dalmatians | director = [[Clyde Geronimi]]<br />[[Hamilton Luske]]<br />[[Wolfgang Reitherman]] | producer = [[Walt Disney]] | writer = [[Dodie Smith]] (novel ''The One Hundred and One Dalmatians'')<br />[[Bill Peet]] (story) | studio = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] | distributor = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Distribution]] | music = [[George Bruns]] | starring = [[Rod Taylor]]<br />[[Cate Bauer]]<br />[[Betty Lou Gerson]]<br />[[Ben Wright (actor)|Ben Wright]]<br />[[Lisa Davis]]<br />[[Martha Wentworth]] | released = January 25, 1961 | runtime = 79 minutes | language = British English | budget = $4,000,000 USD (estimated) | gross = $215,880,014 }} '''''101 Dalmatians''''', is the 17th [[animation|animated movie]] in the [[List of Disney animated movies|Walt Disney classics series]]. It was made and produced by [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]] and based on the book ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians|The 00 and 1 Dalmatians]]'' by [[Dodie Smith]]. The movie stars [[Rod Taylor]] as the voice of Pongo, the first of the dalmatians, and Betty Lou Gerson as the voice of the [[villain]]ous [[Cruella de Vil]]. After [[inflation]], it’s the [[List of highest-grossing animated movies|second most successful animated movie that has been made yet]]. Disney remade the movie in [[1996]] as ''[[101 Dalmatians (1996 movie)|101 Dalmatians]]'', a live-action film starring [[Glenn Close]] as Cruella De Vil. (None of the animals talked in that version.) ''101 Dalmatians'' was first released to theaters on January 25, 1961. After its first release, it was re-released to theaters four more times: January 1969, June 1979, December 1985, and July 1991. It was then released on VHS on April 10, 1992 as part of the Walt Disney Classics video series. It was re-released on March 9, 1999 as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video s