Editing One Hundred and One Dalmatians (section)

===Casting===
The filmmakers deliberately cast actors with deeper voices for the roles of dogs, so they would have more power than those of the human characters.{{sfn|Vagg|2010|page=77}} [[Rod Taylor]], who had extensive radio experience, was one of the first actors cast in the film;<ref name="101ForTheFan">{{Cite AV media|title=101 Pop-Up Trivia Facts For The Fan|type=Bonus feature|publisher=[[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]]|edition=''101 Dalmatians'' Platinum DVD|year=2008}}</ref> he got the role of Pongo.<ref name="VoicesForDalmatians">{{cite news|date=April 8, 1961|title=Voices For Dalmatians Give Disney Problem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDNWAAAAIBAJ&dq=dalmatians+rod+taylor&pg=PA101&article_id=4719,3051566|work=[[The Spokesman-Review]]|access-date=January 2, 2024|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref> [[Lisa Daniels (actress)|Lisa Daniels]] was originally cast as Perdita and recorded about the third of her lines but then got married and moved to [[New York City|New York]];<ref name="101ForTheFan" /> Cate Bauer replaced her for the rest of the film.<ref name="VoicesForDalmatians" /> [[J. Pat O'Malley]], who was a regular voice actor for the studio and one of Disney's personal favorites,<ref name="101ForTheFan" /> got the roles of Jasper and Colonel,{{sfn|Frankham|Hollifield|2015|page=278–279}} and also voiced several minor characters in the film.<ref name="VoicesForDalmatians" /> [[David Frankham]] was cast as Sergeant Tibbs in the spring of 1959 and finished his recording within three sessions from May 1959 to January 1960;{{sfn|Frankham|Hollifield|2015|pages=277–280}} he was also asked to record the part of Scottie, the Skye Terrier who appears early in the "Twilight Bark" sequence.{{sfn|Frankham|Hollifield|2015|page=279}}

Disney originally had [[Lisa Davis (actress)|Lisa Davis]] read for the role of Cruella De Vil, but she did not think that she was right for the part, and wanted to try reading the role of Anita instead.<ref name="LuckyDogs">{{cite AV media notes|title=Lucky Dogs|type=Documentary film|publisher=Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment|edition=''101 Dalmatians'' Diamond Blu-ray|year=2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k78RHAwczQ|via=YouTube|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602152623/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k78RHAwczQ|archive-date=June 2, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> Disney agreed, and, after they read the script for a second time, she landed the part.<ref name="DavisTalks101Dalmatians" /> Davis also provided live-action reference for the character.<ref>{{cite web|last=Braun|first=Amy|url=http://www.dvdizzy.com/lisadavis-interview.html|title=UltimateDisney.com's Interview with Lisa Davis, the voice and model for 101 Dalmatians' Anita Radcliff|website=DVDizzy.com|date=March 4, 2008|access-date=June 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405092301/https://dvdizzy.com/lisadavis-interview.html|archive-date=April 5, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Betty Lou Gerson]], who was previously the narrator for ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]'' (1950), auditioned for the role of Cruella De Vil in front of [[Marc Davis (animator)|Marc Davis]], the character's supervising animator, and sequence director [[Wolfgang Reitherman]], and immediately landed it.<ref name="FirstNameInNasty">{{cite news|title='101 Dalmatians': A Classic On All Counts Evil-hearted Cruella The First Name In Nasty|last=Rhetts|first=Joanne|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1985-12-26-0340880008-story.html|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=December 26, 1985|access-date=September 16, 2017|url-access=limited|archive-date=March 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325103214/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1985-12-26-0340880008-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> While searching for the right accent of the character, she landed on a "phony theatrical voice, someone who's set sail from New York but hasn't quite reached England."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/08/23/cruella-de-vils-voice/|last=Birnhaum|first=Jane|title=Cruella De Vil's voice|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=August 23, 1991|access-date=September 16, 2017|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406035605/https://ew.com/article/1991/08/23/cruella-de-vils-voice/|url-status=live}}</ref> During the recording process, Gerson was thought to be imitating [[Tallulah Bankhead]],<ref name="CruellaDeVilVillainsHistory" /> but she later disputed that she "didn't intentionally imitate her ... We both had phony English accents on top of our Southern accents and a great deal of flair. So our voices came out that way."<ref>{{cite news|title=Betty Lou Gerson's Phony Accent Was a Natural for Cruella De Vil|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-20-ca-2074-story.html|last=King|first=Susan|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 20, 1991|access-date=September 16, 2017|archive-date=June 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602220803/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-20-ca-2074-story.html|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}</ref> Gerson finished her recording sessions in fourteen days.<ref name="FirstNameInNasty"/>