44 Fun Facts About Lady and the Tramp

What breed of dog is Lady?

Cocker spaniel, although the real dog behind the story was a springer spaniel, also called Lady, who belonged to Disney story artist Joe Grant.

Lady and the Tramp premiered in which city, Walt Disney's birthplace?

Chicago hosted the world premiere on June 16, 1955; Walt had been born in the city in 1901 but left as a small child for a farm near Marceline.

How does Lady arrive in her new home at the start of the film?

In a hatbox, a scene Walt Disney took from his own life: in 1925 he had surprised his wife Lillian with a puppy hidden inside one.

What are the names of Lady's owners?

Jim Dear and Darling are simply what Lady hears the couple call each other; a 1944 storybook version of the tale had called them 'Mister' and 'Missis'.

What breed is Lady's neighbour Jock?

Scottish terrier Jock ends the film as one of Tramp's rescuers: he and Trusty set off together to bring him back.

Why has Trusty the bloodhound stopped tracking criminals?

He lost his sense of smell, or so his friends believe; in the finale he proves it has come back by tracking Tramp across town.

What are the names of Aunt Sarah's two Siamese cats?

Si and Am, whose names together spell Siam, were called Nip and Tuck when the pair first turned up in a 1940 draft of the story.

What does Aunt Sarah take Lady to have fitted after the cats wreck the house?

A muzzle, which stays on until Tramp takes Lady to the zoo and talks one of the animals into biting it off.

Which song is sung during Lady and Tramp's dinner at Tony's restaurant?

'Bella Notte', Italian for 'beautiful night', is sung to the two dogs at their table by Tony himself, the restaurant's owner.

Walt Disney nearly cut which scene, until Frank Thomas animated it?

The spaghetti dinner survived because Thomas animated the whole scene on his own before showing it to Walt, who had doubted it would work.

What nickname does Tramp give Lady?

Pidge is short for 'Pigeon', Tramp's teasing name for a sheltered house dog; he has an alias of his own, since Tony and Joe at the restaurant call him Butch.

What is Tramp chasing when he gets distracted and Lady is caught by the dogcatcher?

Chickens: Tramp talks Lady into raiding a henhouse for fun, the farmer opens fire, and in the scramble to escape she is the one the dogcatcher grabs.

What creature does Tramp kill in the baby's nursery?

A rat: to draw the fight, animator Wolfgang Reitherman kept live rats in a cage beside his desk and studied the way they moved.

How is Trusty injured late in Lady and the Tramp?

The dogcatcher's wagon crashes on him as he and Jock stop it; the storyboards had him die there, but Walt Disney relented and he returns for Christmas with a leg in a cast.

Which singer wrote Lady and the Tramp's songs with Sonny Burke and voiced both Siamese cats?

Peggy Lee also changed the plot: by her own account she wept at the storyboards and talked Walt Disney out of killing off Trusty the bloodhound.

The pound dog Peg had a different name in the storyboards until Disney feared it would offend which First Lady?

Mamie Eisenhower was in the White House at the time, and the dog's prominent fringe, like hers, had earned the character the name Mame.

Animator Eric Larson modelled the sultry pound dog Peg on her voice actress and on which screen star?

Mae West was only part of the mix: Larson said Peg was based 'a lot' on her voice actress, whose gestures he studied at the recording sessions.

Why did Disney want a Lady and the Tramp novel out before the film?

To make it familiar: his earlier features retold tales audiences already knew, and this one was new, so writer Ward Greene's book went on sale in 1953.

Before Walt Disney renamed him, which of these names did Tramp go by in early scripts?

Rags came between Homer and Bozo; Walt Disney picked 'Tramp' himself and kept it even though the film's distributors disliked the title.

Lady and the Tramp was the first animated feature filmed in which widescreen process?

CinemaScope was so new that many cinemas could not project it, so Disney's layout artists had to rework scenes for a second, standard-ratio version of the film.

After splitting from RKO, Disney released Lady and the Tramp through which distributor?

Buena Vista was Disney's own company, set up in 1953 when RKO balked at releasing its nature film The Living Desert.

What did artists build to plan Lady and the Tramp's low camera angles?

A scale model of the house, furnished down to the wallpaper, let background artist Claude Coats photograph each room from floor level.

Which Georgia city doubled as the story's town in the 2019 Lady and the Tramp?

Savannah was picked for its historic look: two of its squares, Johnson and Wright, were closed off and dressed as a town of the early 1900s.

Alan Reed, who voices Boris the Russian wolfhound, later became the original voice of which cartoon character?

Fred Flintstone was still five years off; as Boris, Reed is the pound's Russian-accented philosopher, one of the strays who fill Lady in on Tramp's past.

Stan Freberg gave a whistling lisp to which animal that Lady and Tramp meet at the zoo?

A beaver, whom Tramp calls 'Mr. Busy': he is hauling logs for his dam and has no time for visitors until Tramp shows him what is in it for him.

Verna Felton, the voice of the dog-hating Aunt Sarah, had earlier played which character in Cinderella?

The Fairy Godmother, a world away from Aunt Sarah; the film was a family affair for Felton, whose son Lee Millar voices Lady's master.

Which country's national film awards honoured Lady and the Tramp the year after its release?

Italy gave Walt Disney its David di Donatello for best foreign producer; back home, the film had not drawn a single Oscar nomination.

By early 1988, Lady and the Tramp held what home-video distinction?

Best-selling VHS title to date, at over three million tapes; the windfall led the film's co-songwriter to sue Disney for a share of it, and she won $2.3 million.

Audiences made Lady and the Tramp a hit in 1955, but how did most critics greet it?

With mixed reviews: the film critics shrugged at on release is now counted among Disney's best-loved classics.

What is the name of Lady and Tramp's rebellious son in the 2001 sequel?

Scamp is never named in the original film: he got the name from his own newspaper comic strip, which began in October 1955 and ran for more than thirty years.

In Lady and the Tramp II, which gang of strays does the couple's son join?

The Junkyard Dogs are led by Buster, once Tramp's best friend, who has never forgiven him for giving up the streets to become a house pet.

Who voices Angel in Lady and the Tramp II?

Alyssa Milano's Angel is an orphan stray whom the young runaway saves from the dogcatcher and then falls in love with.

Who voices Lady in the 2019 live-action remake?

Tessa Thompson's Lady is no cartoon: the remake filmed real dogs and used computer graphics to make them talk.

How was Lady and the Tramp's 2019 remake released?

On Disney+ only: it was made as a launch-day attraction for the new streaming service, which went live on November 12, 2019.

Which Disney venture opened within weeks of Lady and the Tramp reaching cinemas in June 1955?

Disneyland opened that July, and its Main Street shares the film's turn-of-the-century look because some of the same artists designed both.

Which singer voices Peg in the 2019 Lady and the Tramp?

Janelle Monáe did more than voice Peg: her Wondaland collective wrote new music for the remake, including a replacement for the original's Siamese cat number.

Thurl Ravenscroft, whose bass anchors the dog chorus in Lady and the Tramp, was for decades the voice of which cereal mascot?

Tony the Tiger was his for half a century; he also sang 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch', a performance long credited by mistake to Boris Karloff.

By the final scene, what has the freedom-loving Tramp accepted from Lady's owners as a sign he belongs?

A collar and licence, the 'badge of respectability' Lady showed off as a puppy and the very thing Tramp had bragged of living without.

Monte, the dog who plays Tramp in the 2019 remake, was found where?

In a shelter in Phoenix, where the film's dog trainer cast him and then adopted him; the dog the 1955 animators drew Tramp from was a pound rescue too, and a female.

Bill Thompson, the voice of Jock, had voiced which Peter Pan character for Disney two years earlier?

Mr. Smee was one of a string of Disney roles for Thompson, who two years after this film swapped the microphone for an executive job at Union Oil.

What breed is Peg, the worldly stray Lady meets in the dog pound in the 1955 film?

Pekingese Peg, billed by Disney as a one-time show dog, is the pound's authority on Tramp's long list of old flames.

Who voices Tramp in the 2019 remake of Lady and the Tramp?

Justin Theroux signed on in 2018 for a part first spoken in 1955 by Larry Roberts, a stage actor who never made another film.

Where did Walt Disney show footage of Lady and the Tramp six months before its release?

On television: his weekly series showed footage in December 1954, and a later episode had the film's two songwriters re-enact how they wrote and recorded the songs.

How does Lady and the Tramp II end for Angel, the stray?

Lady's family adopts her: the stray had wanted a home all along, and could not see why the couple's son had run away from his.