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Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 animated feature film
produced by
Walt Disney, and originally released to theaters on June 22, 1955
by Buena Vista Distribution. The fifteenth animated feature in the
Disney animated features canon, it was the first animated feature
filmed in the Cinemascope widescreen film process. The story pairs a
female
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich
family and a male stray
dog named Tramp.
Characters
* Lady: A cute, pampered, but very loving female
Cocker
Spaniel.
* Tramp: A mutt (modeled after a schnauzer) with a knack for dodging
dog-catchers and ability to pick locks. He calls Lady "Pidge", short
for Pigeon.
* Jock: A Scottish Terrier with the accent to prove it, Jock is a show
dog with numerous trophies.
* Trusty: A bloodhound who used to track criminals with his Grandpappy,
Old Reliable, until he lost his sense of smell.
* Si and Am: Twin Siamese
cats with a knack
for mischief and never-ending trouble, owned by Aunt Sarah. Their
names are a play on Siam and the idea of "Siamese twins", the
terminology of the time for conjoined twins.
* Peg: A sassy, stray female Lhasa Apso, whom Lady meets, (along with
the other dog inmates she was put in a cage with), when she is caught
by the dog pound. It is implied that she had a relationship with Tramp
in the past, through the lyrics of the song she sings, (He's A Tramp).
She was formerly from the Dog and Pony Follies (dog and pony show),
either the shows ended or she was left behind. She has a Brooklyn
Accent. Created for singer Peggy Lee and with her blonde bangs look,
to be a part of the movie.
* Toughy: A stray male mongrel from the dog pound.
* Boris: A stray male
Borzoi;
from the dog pound. He talks with a Russian accent.
* Pedro: A stray male Chihuahua from the dog pound. He talks with a
Mexican accent.
* Bull: A stray male
bulldog; from the dog pound. He talks with a slight
Cockney-Australian accent.
* Dachsie: A stray male dachshund at the dog pound. He talks with a
German accent.
* Jim Dear: name as known by Lady, the fatherly human figure.
Darling's husband.
* Darling: name as known by Lady, wife of Jim Dear and motherly human
figure.
* Aunt Sarah: She comes to take care of the baby when Jim Dear and
Darling leave for a few days. Aunt Sarah is strict, she does not
understand dogs, and thinks they're trouble. Aunt Sarah can be
outsmarted by Lady, but she keeps coming back for her.
* Tony: Owner and chef of Tony's Italian restaurant.
* Joe: Tony's assistant chef.
* Rat: A mischievous rat which skulks around the neighborhood, and
goes after the baby, but in the end, he gets killed by Tramp.
* Beaver: A clever, hard-working beaver at the zoo, who speaks with a
lisp, who gnaws off the muzzle that Aunt Sarah had placed upon Lady.
It shows itself a stereotypical engineer by calculating a the
increased efficiency for using the muzzle to tow downed trees to the
beaver dam.
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