Lady and the Tramp

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{{Infobox Film | name = Lady and the Tramp | image = Lady-and-tramp-1955-poster.jpg | | director = Clyde Geronomi
Wilfred Jackson
Hamilton Luske | writer = Ward Greene (novel)
Erdman Penner
Joe Rinaldi
Ralph Wright
Don DaGradi
Joe Grant (early 1943 concept as seen on the DVD) | starring = Peggy Lee
Barbara Luddy
Larry Roberts
Bill Thompson
Bill Baucom
Stan Freberg
Verna Felton
Alan Reed
George Givot
Dallas McKennon
Lee Millar
The Mellomen | producer = Walt Disney | distributor = Buena Vista Distribution | released = June 16, 1955 | runtime = 75 min. | language = English | budget = $4,000,000 | imdb_id = 0048280 

 | preceded_by = Peter Pan (1953)
 | followed_by = Sleeping Beauty (1959)

}}

Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney and was originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution, a new division of Disney which assumed distribution rights of the studio's product from RKO Radio Pictures. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. The story pairs a Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich family with a mutt named Tramp who lives on the streets. Once the two of them meet, they share an adventure together and eventually fall in love.


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Characters

  • Lady: A lovely pampered Cocker Spaniel.
  • Tramp: A mixed-breed stray (possibly part schnauzer) with a knack for dodging dog-catchers.
  • Jock: A scottish terrier with the accent to prove it.
  • Trusty: A bloodhound who used to track criminals with his Grandpappy, Old Reliable- until he lost his sense of smell.
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Synopsis

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Lady's early days

Lady is a gift from Jim Dear to his wife Darling one Christmas. She quickly becomes the center of their attention . When Lady is six months old, she is given a collar and license and is able to leave the house. She makes friends with two dogs living nearby, Jock and Trusty. A short time afterwards, she becomes friends with another dog — a stray dog called Tramp. (Surprisingly enough, Tramp himself never refers to himself by that name, at least on-screen, but is instead referred to by pretty much two thirds in the film's canine cast (save Jock and Trusty) by the name at one point or another, including Lady, who recognized the name when it was brought up, which indicates that he did at some point tell her he was called the Tramp. It isn't until the second film in which any human calls him Tramp and it is never explained why they 'named' him with the very name he was known by on the streets.)

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The Baby and Aunt Sarah

Darling then has a baby and Lady feels that Jim Dear and Darling are not giving her as much attention as before. Soon after the baby is born, Jim Dear and Darling go away for a few days and Aunt Sarah comes to the house to look after the baby. Aunt Sarah has two Siamese cats Si and Am who run wild in the house. Lady manages to keep the goldfish and canary safe from harm. But she begins to bark when the two cats go up the stairs to see the baby. Lady scares Si and Am and they pretend to have been hurt. Aunt Sarah then takes Lady to a pet shop to have her fitted with a muzzle, but Lady runs away while the shopkeeper is trying to fit.

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Tramp

Lady comes face to face with a group of vicious dogs on the other side of town, but Tramp arrives on the scene and rescues Lady. Tramp then takes Lady around the town, introducing her to a few of his friends, including a beaver who removes Lady's muzzle. Tramp then takes Lady to Tony's Italian Restaurant, where Tony the cook prepares them a special spaghetti meal. After that, they decide to stay for the night on a hill on a date. The next morning, Lady feels homesick and, while heading back to her home, she and Tramp head for the farm, where he scares away the chickens. During all the ruckus, Lady is captured by the dog catcher and taken to the dog pound, where she does not stay for long. Because she has a name tag, she is soon identified and taken home but Aunt Sarah chains her to a kennel in the garden.

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Back home

Jock and Trusty both come to see Lady, but she is not in the mood for visitors. And when Tramp comes, she is angry with him because of the information of his many girlfriends and does not want to see him again. However, Tramp does return and Lady tells him that a rat has gone into the baby's room. By now a thunderstorm has moved in. Tramp enters the house and soon comes face to face with the rat. Tramp chases the rat all over the bedroom eventually manages to kill it, but in the process he tips over the baby's cot and Aunt Sarah is awakened by the baby crying.

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Race against time

Aunt Sarah calls the dog pound and demands that the dog catcher come to collect Tramp; meanwhile, Lady is locked in the cellar. Just as the dog catcher is collecting Tramp, Jim Dear and Darling return. They then unlock the cellar door and release Lady. Lady begins barking frantically and runs upstairs. Aunt Sarah, Jim Dear and Darling all follow her. They see the dead rat and everyone knows that Lady and Tramp had entered the house to catch the rat. Jock and Trusty are both waiting outside the house and hear about the rat. They decide to go after the dog catcher's wagon and finally sniff its scent, and run towards the wagon while it is just yards away from the dog pound. They confront the horses which are pulling the wagon and it topples over into a tree. Several passers-by are helping the driver and trying to release the horses when a taxi pulls up and Jim Dear and Lady get out. Tramp is released from the wagon, while Trusty is trapped under the wheel. Jock is convinced Trusty is dead and he begins to howl in sadness and despair over the loss.

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Christmas

At Christmastime with Tramp long adopted by the Darlings, Lady gives birth to her and Tramp's four puppies, and they are all photographed together with the baby. Just then, Jock and Trusty arrive; it turns out Trusty had actually survived the accident, left only with an injured leg. "Uncle Trusty" then starts telling the puppies about his "Grampappy", "Old Reliable" only to realize he forgot what the quote was, and the film ends as it has begun.

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History

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Production

The film was based loosely on two previous works, the 1937 book Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog by Ward Greene about a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks, and a story line worked on for several years by Disney story man Joe Grant about a Cocker Spaniel named Lady, loosely based based on his own pet, a Springer Spaniel (his dog was brown and white while Lady was honey coloured all over). Greene later wrote a novelization of the film, which was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story.

The finished film is slightly different than what was originally planned. In early script versions, Tramp was first called Homer, then Rags, and Bozo. Although both the original script and the final product both shared most of the same elements, it would still be revised and revamped. Originally, Lady was to have only one next door neighbor, a Ralph Bellamy-type canine named Hubert. Hubert was later replaced by Jock and Trusty. There were numerous scenes thought up but then deleted, as well. One scene created but then deleted was one in which, while Lady fears of the arrival of the baby, she has a "Parade of the Shoes" nightmare (a plagiarized version of Dumbo's "Pink Elephants On Parade" nightmare) in which a baby bootie splits in two, then four, and continues to multiply. The dream shoes then fade into real shoes, their wearer exclaiming that the baby has been born. Another scene that was cut, a rather interesting scene, was one in which, in song, while Lady and Tramp are at the park, they engage in a Dog's World fantasy, in which the roles of both dogs and humans are switched; the dogs are the masters and vice-versa (there was also a sex scene between Lady and Tramp, which one interviewee considers "a little risque"). A 1940 script introduced the twin Siamese cats. Eventually known as Si and Am, they were originally known as Nip and Tuck. Even the rat in the film, who was originally intended to be a comic character, became a more realistic threat. In fact, it seems that Lady was practically the only character whose name never changed.

Also, it was originally intended to have Trusty die at the end of the film while saving Tramp from the dogcatcher, which is why Jock howls at his accident. Walt Disney, however, did not want a repeat of the controversy concerning the death of the mother in Bambi, and therefore Trusty was written into the epilogue sequence to say that he was merely injured.

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Re-release schedule and home video

The film was reissued to theaters in 1962, 1971, 1980, and 1986, and on videotape in 1987 (this was in Disney's The Classics video series, and was the last to use the original animated Classics logo at the beginning before the movie) and 1998 (in the Disney Masterpiece Collection). A Disney Limited Issue Series DVD was released in 1999. It was remastered for DVD in 2006, as the seventh installment of Disney's Platinum Edition Series.

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Lady and the Tramp theatrical release history

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Titles in different languages

Unless otherwise mentioned, all foreign titles translate to "Lady And The Tramp".

  • Chinese: 小姐与流氓
  • Danish: Lady og Vagabonden
  • Dutch: Lady en de Vagebond (Lady and the Vagabond)
  • Finnish: Kaunotar ja Kulkuri
  • French: La Belle et le Clochard (The Beauty and The Tramp)
  • German: Susi und Strolch (Susi and Strolch)
  • Greek: Η Λαίδη και ο Αλήτης (The Lady and the Vagrant)
  • Italian: Lilli e il Vagabondo ( Lilli and the Wanderer)
  • Japanese: わんわん物語 / Wan-wan Monogatari (Bow-wow Story)
  • Norwegian: Lady og Landstrykeren
  • Polish: Zakochany Kundel
  • Portuguese: A Dama e o Vagabundo (The Lady and the Vagabond)
  • Russian: Леди и Бродяга
  • Serbian: Maza i Lunja
  • Slovene: Dama in Potepuh
  • Spanish: La Dama y el Vagabundo (The Lady and the Vagabond)
  • Swedish: Lady och Lufsen
  • Turkish: Leydi ve Sokak Köpeği
  • Vietnamese: Tiểu Thư và Kẻ Lang Thang
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Trivia

  • The 1962 reissue of the film was shown on a double bill with the initial release of Almost Angels.
  • In the movie, while Lady and Tramp are strolling through the town at night, they come across a heart with two people's initials that were drawn into wet cement. The initials are someone else's, but the two dogs then make pawprints inside the heart. The initials are believed to be an homage to famous children's authors, JM Barrie and EB White.
  • The Beaver in this film seemed to be the inspiration for the Gopher in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), down to the speech pattern (a whistling sound when he makes the "S" sound).
  • Before animating the fight between Tramp and the rat, animator Wolfgang Reitherman kept rats in a cage next to his desk to study their actions.
  • According to legend, the film's opening sequence, in which Darling unwraps a hat box on Christmas morning and finds Lady inside, is based upon an actual incident in Walt Disney's life. After he'd forgotten a dinner date with his wife, he made it up to her by offering her the puppy-in-the-hat-box surprise and was immediately forgiven.
  • Peggy Lee, who, along with Sonny Burke, created the songs for the film, later sued Disney for breach of contract claiming that she still retained rights to the transcripts. She was awarded $2.3m, but not without a lengthy legal battle with the studio which was finally settled in 1991.
  • Jock's real name, as is revealed during the movie, is "Hether Lad o' Ben-Cairn."
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Voice cast

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See also

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External links

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