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pp-semi|small=yesInfobox film| name = Lady and the Tramp| image = Lady-and-tramp-1955-poster.jpg| image_size = 190px| caption = Original theatrical release poster| director = Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske | producer = Walt Disney | screenplay = Erdman Penner Joe Rinaldi Ralph Wright Don DaGradi | story = Joe Grant | based on = based on| Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog |Ward Greene| starring = Peggy Lee Barbara Luddy Larry Roberts Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson Bill Baucom| music = Oliver Wallace | editing = Don Halliday| studio = Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions | distributor = Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Distribution | released = Film date|1955|6|22| runtime = 75 minutes| country = FilmUS| language = English| budget = $4 millioncite web | title=Lady and the Tramp | publisher= Box Office Mojo |url= http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/? id=ladyandthetramp.htm | accessdate=2012-01-05| gross = $93,602,326 Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animation|animated film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Distribution . The 15th animated film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features|Walt Disney Animated Classics series , it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process.cite book|last=Finch |first=Christopher |chapter=Chapter 8: Interruption and Innovations |pages=234–244 |title=The Art of Walt Disney |year=2004|isbn=0810927020 The story centers on a female American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper middle-class family, and a male stray Mixed-breed dog|mutt called the Tramp. A direct-to-video sequel, '' Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure , was released in 2001.
Plot
On Christmas morning 1909, Jim Dear gives his wife Darling a cocker spaniel puppy that they name Lady. Lady enjoys a happy life with the couple and with a pair of dogs from the neighborhood, a Scottish Terrier named Jock and a bloodhound named Trusty. Meanwhile, across town by the railway, a stray mutt, referred to as The Tramp, lives life from moment to moment, be it begging for scraps from the local Italian restaurant or protecting his fellow strays Peg (a Lhasa Apso ) and Bull (an Bulldog|English bulldog ) from the local dog catcher .
Later, Lady is saddened after Jim Dear and Darling begin treating her rather coldly. Jock and Trusty visit her, and determine that the change in behavior is due to Darling expecting a baby. While Jock and Trusty try to explain what a baby is, Tramp offers his own thoughts on the matter. Jock and Trusty take an immediate dislike to the stray and order him out of the yard. As Tramp leaves, he reminds Lady that "when the baby moves in, the dog moves out".
Eventually, the baby arrives and Jim Dear and Darling introduce Lady to the infant, to whom Lady grows fond. Soon after, the two decide to go on a trip together, leaving their Aunt Sarah to look after the baby and the house. Aunt Sarah, however, dislikes dogs, refusing to let Lady near the baby. When Lady clashes with Aunt Sarah's two trouble-making Siamese cat s, Si and Am, she takes Lady to a pet shop to get a muzzle. Lady flees, but is pursued by some street dogs. After the Tramp rescues Lady, the two visit a local zoo, where Tramp tricks a beaver into removing the muzzle. Later, Tramp shows Lady how he lives "footloose and collar-free", eventually leading into a candlelit Italian dinner.
As Tramp escorts Lady back home, Tramp stirs up trouble in a chicken coop. As the two dogs flee, Lady is caught by the dog-catcher. At the pound, the other dogs admire Lady's license, as it is her way out of the pound. Soon the dogs reveal the Tramp's many girlfriends and how he is unlikely to ever settle down. Eventually, Lady is collected by Aunt Sarah and is chained to the backyard doghouse. Jock and Trusty visit to comfort her, but when Tramp arrives to apologize, thunder starts to rumble as Lady angrily confronts him about his past girlfriends and failure to rescue her, after which Tramp leaves.
Moments later, as it starts to rain, Lady sees a rat trying to sneak into the yard. Lady barks frantically, but Aunt Sarah tells her to be quiet. Tramp hears her and runs back to help. Tramp enters the house and confronts the rat in the nursery. Lady breaks free and races to the nursery to find the rat on the baby's crib. Tramp kills the rat, but knocks over the crib in the process, awakening the infant. When Aunt Sarah comes to the baby's aid, she sees the two dogs and thinks they are responsible. She forces Tramp into a closet and Lady into the basement, then calls the pound to take Tramp away.
Jim Dear and Darling return as the dogcatcher departs. They release Lady, who leads them and Aunt Sarah to the dead rat, vindicating Tramp. Overhearing everything and realizing Tramp's intentions, Jock and Trusty chase after the dogcatcher's wagon. Jock is convinced Trusty has long since lost his sense of smell, but the old bloodhound is able to find the wagon. They bark at the horses, who rear up and topple the wagon onto a utility pole . Jim Dear arrives by car with Lady, and Lady reunites with Tramp. However, Trusty is injured in the struggle and Jock howls in sorrow.
That Christmas, Tramp, now a part of Lady's family, has his own collar and license. Aunt Sarah has also reconciled with Lady by sending her a box of dog biscuits. Lady and Tramp raise four puppies together: three resemble Lady (Annette, Danielle, and Collette) and the other resembles Tramp (Scamp). Jock comes to see the family along with Trusty, who is carefully walking on his still-mending leg.
Cast
Barbara Luddy as Lady
Larry Roberts (actor)|Larry Roberts as The Tramp
Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson as Jock, Joe, Bulldog, Dachsie, Policeman
Bill Baucom as Trusty
George Givot as Tony
Peggy Lee as Darling, Si, Am, Peg
Verna Felton as Aunt Sarah
Stan Freberg as the beaver
Alan Reed as Boris
Thurl Ravenscroft as Al the alligator
Dallas McKennon as Toughy, Pedro, Professor, Hyena
Lee Millar (actor)|Lee Millar as Jim Dear, Dogcatcher
The Mellomen ( Thurl Ravenscroft , Bill Lee (singer)|Bill Lee , The Mellomen|Max Smith , The Mellomen|Bob Hamlin and The Mellomen|Bob Stevens ) as Dog Chorus
Production
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Story Development
In 1937 Disney story man Joe Grant came up with an idea inspired by the antics of his of his Springer Spaniel Lady, and how she got "shoved aside" by Joe's new baby. He approached Walt Disney with sketches of Lady. Disney enjoyed the sketches and commissioned Grant to start story development on a new animated feature Lady cite video|title= Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD, Disc 2: "Behind the Scenes: Story Development" |people=Eric Goldberg. Through the late 1930's and early 1940's, Joe Grant and other artists worked on the story, taking a variety approaches, but Disney wasn't pleased with any of them, primarily because he thought Lady was too sweet, and there wasn't enough action.cite video|title= Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD, Disc 2: "Behind the Scenes: Story Development" |people=Eric Goldberg
In the early 1940's Walt read a short story written by Ward Greene, "Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog", in Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan Magazine . He thought Grant's story would be improved if Lady fall in love with a cynical dog character like the one in Greene's story, and bought the rights to it.cite book|last=Thomas |first=Bob |chapter=Chapter 7: The Postwar Films |pages=103–104 |title=Disney's Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Hercules |year=1997|isbn=0786862416 The cynical dog had various names during development, including Homer, Rags, and Bozo, before "Tramp" was chosen. It was first thought "Tramp" wouldn't be acceptable (tramp having a sexual connotation (" The Lady is a Tramp "), but as Walt Disney approved, it was considered safe.cite web|work=Disney Archives |title= Lady and the Tramp History |url= http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/ladytramp/ladytramp.html
The finished film is slightly different from what was originally planned. Lady was to have only one next-door neighbor, a Ralph Bellamy -type canine named Hubert. Hubert was later replaced by Jock and Trusty. Aunt Sarah was the traditional overbearing mother-in-law. In the final film she's softened to a busybody who, though antagonistic towards Lady, is well-meaning (she sends a packet of dog biscuits to Lady at Christmas to apologize for mistreating her). Aunt Sarah's Nip and Tuck (later Si and Am) were highly stereotyped, suggesting the yellow peril . Originaly, Lady's owners were called Jim Brown and Elizabeth. These were changed to highlight Lady's point of view. They were briefly referred to as "Mister" and "Missis" before settling on the names "Jim Dear" and "Darling". To maintain a dog's perspective (visual)|perspective , Darling and Jim's faces are rarely shown, similar to Mammy Two Shoes in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. The rat was a somewhat comic character in early sketches, but became a great deal more frightening, due to the need to raise dramatic tension. A scene created but then deleted was one in which after Trusty says "Everybody knows, a dog's best friend is his human". This leads to Tramp describing a world where the roles of both dogs and humans are switched; the dogs are the masters and vice-versa. There was a love triangle among Lady, Tramp, and a Russian wolfhound named Boris (who appears in the dog pound in the final version).Deleted Scenes, Backstage Disney Diomond Editon, Lady and the Tramp 2012 Blu-ray By June, 1943 a treatment had been completed. But the artists weren't allowed to go any further, as the studio was producing mostly instructional and propaganda films for World War II . Story development continued after the war.
The film's opening sequence, in which Darling unwraps a hat box on Christmas morning and finds Lady inside, is based on an incident when Walt Disney's presented his wife Lily with a Chow chow|Chow puppy as a gift in a hat box.cite video|title= Walt: The Man Behind the Myth : Pre-production of Lady and the Tramp |format=DVD |date=2001
In 1949 Grant left the studio, but Disney story men were continually pulling Grant's original drawings and story off the shelf to retool. A solid story began taking shape in 1953, based on Grant's storyboards and Greene's short story.Greene later wrote a novelization of the film that was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney 's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story. Grant didn't receive film credit for his story work, an issue that animation director Eric Goldberg (film director)|Eric Goldberg hoped to rectify in the Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition's behind-the-scenes vignette that explained Grant's role.
Animation
As they had done with deer on Bambi , the animators studied many dogs of different breeds to capture the movement and personality of dogs. Although one of the most famous scenes in film history Walt Disney was prepared to cut the spaghetti eating sequence thinking that it would not be romantic and dogs eating spaghetti would look silly. Animator Frank Thomas (animator)|Frank Thomas was against Walt's decision and animated the entire scene himself without any lay-outs. Walt was impressed by Thomas's work and how he romanticised the scene and kept the scene in.cite video|title= Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD, Disc 2: "Behind the Scenes: Story Development" |people=Eric Goldberg
Originally the background artist was supposed to be Mary Blair and she did some inspirational sketches for the film. However she left the studio to become a childrens book illustrator in 1953. Claude Coats was then appointed as the key background artist. Coats made models of the interiors of Jim Dear and Darling's house, and shot photos and film at a low perspective as reference to maintain a dog's view.cite video|title= Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD. Disc 2: "Disney Backstage" Eyvind Earle (who later became the art director of Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|Sleeping Beauty ) did almost 50 minuture concept sketches for the Bella Notte sequence and was a key contributer to the film.cite video|title= Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD. Disc 2: "Disney Backstage"
CinemaScope
See|CinemaScopeOriginally Lady and the Tramp was planned to filmed in a regular full frame aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio . However due to the growing interest of widescreen film amoungst movie-goers, Walt decided to animate the film in CinemaScope making Lady and the Tramp the first animated feature in CimemaScope. This new innovation presented additional problems for the animators: the expansion of space created more realism, but gave fewer closeups. It also made it difficult for a single character to dominate the screen, so that groups had to be spread out to keep the screen from appearing sparse. Longer takes become necessary since constant jump-cutting would seem too busy or annoying. Layout artists essentially had to reinvent their technique. Animators had to remember that they had to move their characters across a background instead of the background passing behind them. Yet the animators overcame these obstacles during the action scenes, such as the Tramp killing the rat.
More problems arose as the premiere date got closer, since not all theaters had the capability to show CinemaScope at the time. Upon learning this, Walt issued two versions of the film: one in widescreen, and another in the Academy ratio . This involved gathering the layout artists to restructure key scenes when characters were on the edges of the screen.cite video|title= Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD, Disc 2: "Behind the Scenes"
Release
The film was originally released in theaters on June 22, 1955. At the time, the film took in a higher figure than any other Disney animated feature since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .cite book|title=Television: The Critical View |last=Newcomb |first=Horace |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-511927-4 |page=27 An episode of Walt Disney anthology television series|Disneyland called A Story of Dogs aired before the film's release.Newcomb (2001), p. 27. The film was also reissued to theaters in 1962, 1971, 1980, and 1986.
Home media
The movie was released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1987 (this was in Disney's Walt Disney Classics|The Classics video series) and 1998 (this was in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video series). A Disney Limited Issue series DVD was released on November 23, 1999.
Lady and the Tramp was remastered and restored for DVD on February 28, 2006, as the seventh installment of Disney's Walt Disney Platinum and Diamond Editions|Platinum Editions series.cite web|url= http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ladyandthetramp-platinumedition-pressrelease.html |title=Platinum Edition One million copies of the Platinum Edition were sold on February 28, 2006.cite web|url= http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6312352.html |title=Sales information of the DVD The Platinum Edition DVD went on moratorium on January 31, 2007, along with the 2006 DVD reissue of '' Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure .cite web|url= http://dvd.ign.com/articles/736/736573p1.html |title=Lady and the Tramp II information
The film will be released February 7, 2012 on Blu-ray combo pack as a part of Disney's Walt Disney Platinum and Diamond Editions#Diamond Editions|Diamond Editions series.cite news|last=Liu|first=Ed|title=Disney to Release Two Amazing Classics From the Vault in 2012|url= http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/39424/pr-disney-to-release-lady-amp-the-tramp-and-cinderella-on-blu-ray-diamond-editions-in-2012|accessdate=11 November 2011|newspaper=Toon Zone|date=11 November 2012 A standalone 1-disc DVD edition will also be available on March 27, 2012.cite web|url= http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp? pid=8637821|title=Lady And The Tramp DVD Movie|accessdate=11 December 2011
Reception
Despite being an enormous success at the box office, the film was initially panned by many critics: one indicated that the dogs had "the dimensions of hippos," another that "the artists' work is below par".cite web|url= http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/ladyandthetramp/index.html |title=Walt and Education: Part I However the film has since come to be regarded as a classic. The sequence of Lady and the Tramp sharing a plate of spaghetti and meatballs -- climaxed by an accidental kiss as they swallow opposite ends of the same piece of spaghetti -- is considered an iconic scene in American film.
Lady and the Tramp was named number 95 out of the "100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time" by the American Film Institute in their '' AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions|100 Years...100 Passions '' special, as one of only two animated films to appear on the list, along with Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast (which ranked 34th).cite web|work=AFI |title= 100 Years...100 Passions List of 100 Winning Movies |format=PDF |url= http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/passions100.pdf? docID=248l
In 2010, Rhapsody (online music service) called its accompanying soundtrack one of the all-time great Disney & Pixar Soundtracks. http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/06/disney.html 10 Essential Disney & Pixar Soundtracks Referenced July 27, 2010
In June 2011, Time (magazine)| TIME named it one of "The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films".cite web|title=The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films - Lady and the Tramp|url= http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2079149_2079152,00.html|publisher= TIME |accessdate=August 19, 2011|author=Richard Corliss|date=June 23, 2011
AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals - Nominated http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/musicals_ballot.pdf AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals Nominees
AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Animated Film http://www.afi.com/drop/ballot.pdf AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot
Soundtrack
(songs and musical cues as listed on CD) Tracklist| title1 = Main Title (Bella Notte) / The Wag of a Dog's Tail | title2 = Peace on Earth ( Silent Night (song)|Silent Night ) | title3 = It Has a Ribbon / Lady to Bed / A Few Mornings Later | title4 = Sunday / The Rat / Morning Paper | title5 = A New Blue Collar / Lady Talks To Jock & Trusty / It's Jim Dear | title6 = What a Day& #33; / Breakfast at Tony's | title7 = Warning / Breakout / Snob Hill / A Wee Bairn | title8 = Countdown to B-Day | title9 = Baby's First Morning / What Is a Baby / La La Lu | title10 = Going Away / Aunt Sarah | title11 = The Siamese Cat Song / What's Going on Down There | title12 = The Muzzle / Wrong Side of the Tracks | title13 = You Poor Kid / He's Not My Dog | title14 = Through the Zoo / A Log Puller | title15 = Footloose and Collar-Free / A Night At The Restaurant / Bella Notte | title16 = It's Morning / Ever Chase Chickens / Caught | title17 = Home Sweet Home | title18 = The Pound | title19 = What a Dog / He's a Tramp | title20 = In the Doghouse / The Rat Returns / Falsely Accused / We've Got to Stop That Wagon / Trusty's Sacrifice | title21 = Watch the Birdie / Visitors | title22 = Finale (Peace on Earth)
Peggy Lee
Recording artist Peggy Lee wrote the songs with Sonny Burke , and assisted with the score as well. In the film she sings: "He's a Tramp", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "What Is a Baby? ".cite web|work=Peggy Lee's Official Website |title=Peggy Lee's Film Appearances |url= http://www.peggylee.com/solos/films.html She helped promote the film on the Disney TV series, explaining her work with the score and singing a few of the film's numbers. These appearances are available as part of the Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD set.
On November 16, 1988 Peggy Lee sued the Walt Disney Company for breach of contract, claiming that she retained the rights to transcriptions of the music, arguing that videotape editions were transcriptions.cite news|url= http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/17/movies/peggy-lee-is-suing-disney.html |title=Peggy Lee article | work=The New York Times | first=Glenn |last=Collins |date=November 17, 1988 After a protracted legal battle, she was awarded $2.3m in 1991.cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2066858.stm |title= Stars share royalties victory|date=June 26, 2002 | accessdate=January 5, 2010 | work=BBC News
References
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