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Within the bonus features of the DVD, Davis, along with others, shares many memories of working on the film. “Before I even started on the picture, they brought me into a little bungalow on the lot and allowed me to play Dalmatian puppies all day,” says Davis. “When you were working for Disney, you were definitely working for the Rolls Royce of the studios. I was doing a lot of television at the time and they would send a limousine for me and pick me up and take me to Disney for each recording session. It was lovely.”

Interestingly, Davis was originally contacted years before Dalmatians was even a proposal. “I was brought to America by Walt Disney to do the original version of Alice in Wonderland, as a live Alice with the characters animated around me. I came over from England, very, very excited. He had seen me in a movie that I had done for Sir David Lean, and he had me here for several weeks while I did wardrobe tests and voice tests. But he changed his mind, because he realized it would be too great an expense at the time. So he sent me back to England and I left a very, very disappointed 12-year old.”

 

Lisa Davis
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