Cruella de Vil "102 Dalmatians"), Rachel York (musical), Victoria Smurfit ("Once Upon a Time"), and Wendy Raquel Robinson ("Descendants"). The character became a pop-culture type epitomizing a person who is very, very mean. Cruella ranked 39th on AFI's list "100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains". Cruella's name is a pun of the words "cruel" and "devil", an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed "Hell Hall". In some translations, for instance in Polish, Cruella De Vil is known as "Cruella De Mon", a play on "demon". In Italian, she is called "Crudelia De Mon" (a pun on "crudele", cruel, and "demone",
Cruella de Vil animated film, even veering into more juvenile humor, such as Cruella falling into a vat of old molasses. Close's performance was universally well-received and her sex appeal as the character was also credited. The live-action film was not as critically successful as the animated movie, but Close's performance, as well as her costumes, by Anthony Powell and Rosemary Burrows, received appreciative attention, including a spread in "Vanity Fair". Claws were applied to gloves, and necklaces were made from teeth, to add to the idea that Cruella enjoyed wearing parts of dead animals. Nails were also projected from the heels to