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101 Dalmatians (1996) More at IMDbPro »

• To get the dogs to lick the humans, they had steak juice daubed on their skin.
  
  
• The car that Cruella DeVil drives is a Panther DeVille.
  
  
• Hugh Grant was offered the Jeff Daniels part.
  
  
• They used 217 Dalmatians.
  
  
• A major task for the film was finding and training more than 200 Dalmatian puppies.
  
  
• When Glenn Close appeared on the set as Cruella in full fright wig, makeup, and costume, one of the dogs playing Perdy repeatedly tried to slink away.
  
  
• Jeff Daniels (Roger) says that on more than one occasion, he heard an authoritative voice on the dog-strewn set shout "Sit!" and immediately plopped himself into a chair only to be told, "Not you, Jeff."
  
  
• Filmmakers rubbed Jeff Daniels' face with raw hot dogs in order to get the pups to lick him on cue.
  
  
• Glenn Close initially rejected the role of Cruella due to scheduling conflicts with the stage musical "Sunset Blvd." The producers then offered the role to Sigourney Weaver who also declined. By that time, Close had ended her run on Broadway, and when the producers offered her the role again, she accepted.
  
  
• Of the original 15 puppies, six are named - Lucky, Jewel, Dipstick, Fidget, Two Tone and Whizzer.
  
  
• The dogs in Jeff's games are exact replicas of the animated characters in the original One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) film.
  
  

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