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{{Infobox film
| name           = Lady and the Tramp
| image          = Lady-and-tramp-1955-poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Hamilton Luske]]
* [[Clyde Geronimi]]
* [[Wilfred Jackson]]
}}
| story          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Erdman Penner]]
* Joe Rinaldi
* [[Ralph Wright]]
* [[Don DaGradi]]
}}
| based_on       = {{Based on|"Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog"|[[Ward Greene]]}}
| producer       = [[Walt Disney]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Peggy Lee]]
* [[Barbara Luddy]]
* [[Larry Roberts (actor)|Larry Roberts]]
* [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]]
* Bill Baucom
* [[Stan Freberg]]
* [[Verna Felton]]
* [[Alan Reed]]
* [[George Givot]]
* [[Dallas McKennon]]
* Lee Millar
* [[The Mellomen]]
}}
| editing        = Don Halliday
| music          = [[Oliver Wallace]]
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[Buena Vista Film Distribution]]
| released       = {{Film date|1955|6|22}}
| runtime        = 76 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $4 million<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo">{{cite Box Office Mojo|title=Lady and the Tramp|id=0048280|access-date=January 5, 2012|archive-date=January 19, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160119000115/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ladyandthetramp.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
| gross          = $187 million<ref name="ToonedIn">{{cite magazine|last1=Mallory|first1=Michael|last2=D'Alessandro|first2=Anthony|date=October 27, 2003|title=Tooned in: Disney's ani classics set the bar and lit the way for future generations|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tooned+in%3A+Disney%27s+ani+classics+set+the+bar+and+lit+the+way+for...-a0110473946|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|via=[[The Free Dictionary#The Free Library|The Free Library]]|access-date=May 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013000440/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tooned+in%3a+Disney%27s+ani+classics+set+the+bar+and+lit+the+way+for...-a0110473946|archive-date=October 13, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
'''''Lady and the Tramp''''' is a 1955 American animated [[musical film|musical]] [[romantic comedy]] film produced by [[Walt Disney Productions]] and released by [[Buena Vista Film Distribution]]. Based on [[Ward Greene]]'s 1945 ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' magazine story "Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog", it was directed by [[Hamilton Luske]], [[Clyde Geronimi]], and [[Wilfred Jackson]]. Featuring the voices of [[Peggy Lee]], [[Barbara Luddy]], [[Larry Roberts (actor)|Larry Roberts]], [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]], Bill Baucom, [[Stan Freberg]], [[Verna Felton]], [[Alan Reed]], [[George Givot]], [[Dallas McKennon]], and Lee Millar, the film follows Lady, the pampered [[American Cocker Spaniel|Cocker Spaniel]], as she grows from puppy to adult, deals with changes in her family, and meets and falls in love with the homeless [[mongrel dog|mutt]] Tramp.

''Lady and the Tramp'' was released to theaters on June 22, 1955, to box office success. It was the first animated film to be filmed in the [[CinemaScope]] widescreen film process,<ref name="finch">{{cite book |last=Finch |first=Christopher |year=2004 |chapter=Chapter 8: Interruption and Innovations |title=The Art of Walt Disney |pages=234–244 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=0-8109-2702-0}}</ref> as well as Disney's first animated film to be distributed by their Buena Vista division following their split from [[RKO Radio Pictures]]. It initially received generally mixed reviews by film critics, but critical reception for the film has been generally positive in modern times.

A [[direct-to-video]] sequel, titled ''[[Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure]]'', was released in 2001, and a [[Lady and the Tramp (2019 film)|live-action/CGI hybrid remake]] premiered in 2019 as a launch title for the [[Disney+]] streaming service. In 2023, ''Lady and the Tramp'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saperstein |first=Pat |date=December 13, 2023 |title='Home Alone,' 'Terminator 2,' '12 Years a Slave' Among 25 Titles Joining National Film Registry |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/national-film-registry-2023-home-alone-terminator-12-years-a-slave-1235833815/ |access-date=December 13, 2023 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |archive-date=December 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213100020/https://variety.com/2023/film/news/national-film-registry-2023-home-alone-terminator-12-years-a-slave-1235833815/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Plot==
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In 1909, in a small town, "Jim Dear" gives his wife "Darling"{{efn|We never learn their real names in the film. They only address each other by these terms of endearment, so others - the dogs in particular - do the same.}} a [[cocker spaniel]] puppy as a Christmas present. The puppy, named Lady, grows up pampered by her doting owners, and befriends her neighbors' dogs Jock (a [[Scottish Terrier|Scottie]]) and Trusty (an elderly [[Bloodhound]]). Meanwhile, across town, a stray [[terrier]]-mix named Tramp spends his days wandering the streets, feeding on scraps and handouts, and causing trouble for the local [[dogcatcher]].

Fleeing the angry dogcatcher after freeing his friends Peg the [[Pekingese]] and Bull the [[English Bulldog|Bulldog]], Tramp finds himself in Lady's neighborhood. He overhears a distraught Lady conversing with Jock and Trusty about her owners' suddenly distant behavior towards her. When Jock and Trusty deduce this is because Darling is [[Pregnancy|pregnant]], Tramp inserts himself into the conversation as the "voice of experience", and warns Lady that "when a baby moves in, a dog moves out". Annoyed, Jock drives him from the yard. Tramp's words cause Lady to fret throughout Darling's pregnancy, but when the baby boy arrives, she is allowed to meet and bond with him, dispelling her fears.

Later, Jim Dear and Darling take a short trip, leaving the house, Lady, and the baby in the care of Jim Dear's aunt Sarah, who brings along her two [[Siamese cat]]s Si and Am.{{efn|group=|Si and Am's speech and behavior reflects derogatory stereotypes of Asian people.  In 2020, the Disney+ streaming service added a content warning for the film, noting that Lady and the Tramp “includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures” and that “these stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.”<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54566087 "Disney updates content warning for racism in classic films,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922123338/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54566087 |date=2023-09-22 }} ''BBC News,'' October 16, 2020</ref>}} Sarah dislikes dogs, and prohibits Lady from seeing the baby; later, the cats destroy the house, and pin the deed on Lady by pretending she injured them. Sarah takes Lady to the pet shop, and has a [[muzzle (mouth guard)|muzzle]] put on her; Lady panics and flees into the street, where she is pursued by three savage dogs, until Tramp intervenes to protect her.

Tramp takes Lady to the zoo to have the muzzle removed by a [[beaver]]; he then shows Lady his owner-free lifestyle, and they explore the town. The kindly proprietor of Tony's Restaurant gives them a spaghetti dinner to share, before they end the evening with a walk in the park.
The next day, Tramp tries to convince Lady to live "footloose and collar free" with him; despite liking Tramp, she decides her duty is to watch over the baby. As Tramp escorts Lady home, he stops to chase some chickens; the dogcatcher pursues them both, but only Lady is caught. At the [[dog pound|pound]], she meets Peg, Bull, and some other strays, who all know Tramp. They reveal he has had many girlfriends in the past, and claim that females are his weakness.

Sarah comes to claim Lady, and chains her in the backyard as punishment for running away. Jock and Trusty propose that Lady should marry and come live with one of them, to escape the abuse, but she gently refuses them. When Tramp arrives to apologize to Lady, she berates him for his many girlfriends and sends him away, too. Afterwards, Lady notices a large rat sneaking into the house through the baby's bedroom window. Her attempts to alert Sarah fail, but Tramp hears her barking, returns, and enters the house himself to save the baby. Lady breaks her chain and follows soon after. Tramp is wounded in the battle with the rat, but manages to kill it behind a curtain. During the struggle, the baby's crib overturns, and he begins to cry; Sarah comes to investigate, and assumes the dogs attacked the baby.

Jim Dear and Darling return home to find that Sarah has locked Lady in the cellar and handed Tramp over to the dogcatcher to be euthanized. Disbelieving Sarah's story, Jim Dear frees Lady, who immediately shows them the dead rat. Overhearing the truth, Jock and Trusty pursue the dogcatcher's cart and try to stop it; the horses spook, causing the cart to crash. Jim Dear and Darling arrive with Lady to rescue Tramp, but Trusty is badly injured in the wreck.

Later, at Christmastime, Tramp has become an official part of the family, and he and Lady have four little puppies of their own. Jock and a mostly healed Trusty visit the family; the puppies now provide Trusty a new audience for his old stories, but he has forgotten them, much 
to his and everyone else's amusement.

==Cast==
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* [[Peggy Lee]] as Darling, Lady's owner and Jim Dear's wife.
** Lee also voiced Peg, a stray female [[Pekingese]] with a [[New York City English|Brooklyn Accent]] whom Lady meets at the pound, as well as Si and Am, Aunt Sarah's twin [[Siamese cat]]s with a knack for mischief and never-ending trouble.
* [[Barbara Luddy]] as Lady, an [[American Cocker Spaniel]], who is the primary character in the film. A Christmas present to Darling from Jim Dear, she quickly becomes the center of their lives, but is then subconsciously neglected due to the birth of a human baby who she comes to love unconditionally. Her experiences outside the household, and her encounter with Tramp force her to question the nature of her relationship with her humans (who she never sees as her owners), and give her a new understanding of the world around her.
* [[Larry Roberts (actor)|Larry Roberts]] as Tramp<!-- see talk page about character name -->, a [[mongrel]] (with a mixture of a [[schnauzer]] and a [[terrier]]), with a talent for escaping dog-catchers. He nicknames Lady "Pidge", short for Pigeon, which he calls her owing to her [[naivety]]. He never refers to himself by name, although most of the film's canine cast refer to him as the Tramp. Tramp had other names in the film, and when asked by Lady about having a family, Tramp states that he has, "One for every day of the week. Point is, none of them have me." Each family mentioned called him a different name (such as Mike or Fritzi). The families also had different nationalities (such as Irish or German). As he did not belong to a single-family, Tramp implied that it was easier than the baby problems Lady was going through at the time.
* [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]] as Jock, a [[Scottish Terrier]] who is one of Lady's neighbors.
** Thompson also voiced Joe, Tony's assistant chef; Bull, a stray male [[bulldog]] from the dog pound who speaks with a Cockney accent; Dachsie, a stray male [[dachshund]] at the dog pound who speaks with a German accent; an Irish-accented policeman; and Jim's friend.
* Bill Baucom as Trusty, a [[bloodhound]] who used to track criminals with his Grandpappy, Old Reliable, until he lost his sense of smell.
* [[Stan Freberg]] as the beaver, a diligent, absent-minded beaver at the zoo who speaks with a lisp. He gnaws off the muzzle that Aunt Sarah had placed upon Lady after Tramp realizes that the muzzle is just what the beaver needs for pulling logs. This character would later serve as the inspiration for [[Gopher (Winnie the Pooh)|Gopher]] from ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree]]'' (1966), down to the speech pattern (a whistling sound when he makes the "S" sound). On the 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD, Stan Freberg demonstrates how it was done and that a whistle was eventually used because it was hard to continue repeating the effect.
* [[Verna Felton]] as Aunt Sarah, Jim Dear's aunt who babysits for the couple. She is a cat person and dislikes dogs.
* [[Alan Reed]] as Boris, a stray male [[Borzoi]] from the dog pound with a Russian accent.
* [[George Givot]] as Tony, the owner and chef of Tony's [[Italian cuisine|Italian restaurant]].
* [[Dallas McKennon]] as:
** Toughy, a stray male mutt with a slight Brooklyn accent
** Pedro, a stray male [[Chihuahua (dog)|Chihuahua]] with a Mexican accent
** McKennon also voices a professor and a laughing hyena
* Lee Millar as Jim Dear, Lady's owner and Darling's husband.
** Millar also voiced the Dogcatcher.
* [[The Mellomen]] ([[Thurl Ravenscroft]], [[Bill Lee (singer)|Bill Lee]], Max Smith, Bob Hamlin and Bob Stevens) as Dog Chorus
** Ravenscroft also plays Al the alligator
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==Production==
===Story development===
In 1937, [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] story artist [[Joe Grant]] came up with an idea inspired by the antics of his [[English 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 titled ''Lady''.<ref name="DVD">{{cite AV media notes|title=Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD - "Behind the Scenes: Story Development"|type=Bonus feature|others=Eric Goldberg|year=2006|publisher=Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment}}</ref> Through the late 1930s and early 1940s, Joe Grant and other artists worked on the story, taking a variety of approaches, but Disney was not pleased with any of them, primarily because he thought Lady was too sweet, and there was not enough action.<ref name="DVD"/>

Walt Disney read the short story written by Ward Greene, titled "Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog", in the ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' magazine, published in 1945.<ref name="archive"/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Greene|first1=Ward|title=Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog|journal=Cosmopolitan|date=February 1945|volume=118|issue=2|page=19}}</ref> He thought that Grant's story would be improved if Lady fell in love with a cynical dog character like the one in Greene's story, and bought the rights to it.<ref name="thomas">{{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|publisher=Disney Editions |isbn=0-7868-6241-6}}</ref> The cynical dog had various names during development, including Homer, Rags, and Bozo, before "Tramp" was chosen.<ref name="archive">{{cite web|work=Disney Archives|title=Lady and the Tramp History|url=https://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/ladytramp/ladytramp.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224175329/http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/ladytramp/ladytramp.html|archive-date=February 24, 2007}}</ref>

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 with Jock and Trusty. Aunt Sarah was the traditional overbearing mother-in-law. In the final film, she is softened to a busybody who, though antagonistic towards Lady and Tramp, is well-meaning (she sends a packet of dog biscuits to the dogs at Christmas to apologize for mistreating them). Aunt Sarah's Nip and Tuck were later renamed Si and Am.<ref name="archive"/> Originally, 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 Tom's various owners 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", Tramp describes a world in which the roles of both dogs and humans are switched; the dogs are the masters and vice versa.<ref name="DVD"/> There was a love triangle among Lady, Tramp, and a [[Russian wolfhound]] named Boris (who appears in the dog pound in the final version).<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Lady and the Tramp Blu-Ray Diamond Edition - Deleted Scenes, Backstage Disney|type=Bonus feature|publisher=Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment|year=2012}}</ref>

The film's opening sequence, in which Darling unwraps a hat box on Christmas morning and finds Lady inside, is inspired by an incident when Walt Disney presented his wife Lily with a [[Chow chow|Chow]] puppy as a gift in a hat box to make up for having previously forgotten a dinner date with her.<ref>{{cite video|title=''Walt: The Man Behind the Myth'': Pre-production of ''Lady and the Tramp''|year=2001|publisher=Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment}}</ref>

In 1949, Grant left the studio, yet Disney story men were continually pulling Grant's original drawings and story off the shelf to retool.<ref name="DVD"/> A solid story began taking shape in 1953,<ref name="thomas"/> based on Grant's storyboards and Greene's short story.<ref name="DVD"/> 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.<ref name="backstage"/> Due to Greene's novelization, Grant did not 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.<ref name="DVD"/>

Singer Peggy Lee not only voiced four characters but co-wrote six songs for the film.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|last1=Weinraub|first1=Bernard|title=It's a Small World After All, Mr. Eisner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/07/business/it-s-a-small-world-after-all-mr-eisner.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 7, 1995|access-date=September 13, 2017|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005241/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/07/business/it-s-a-small-world-after-all-mr-eisner.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Animation===
As they had done with the deer on ''[[Bambi]]'', the animators studied many dogs of different breeds to capture the movement and personality of dogs. Although the spaghetti eating sequence is one of the most notable scenes in the film, Walt Disney was prepared to cut it, thinking that it would not be romantic and that 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 romanticized the scene and kept it in.<ref name="DVD"/> On viewing the first take of the scene, the animators felt that the action should be slowed down, so an apprentice trainee was assigned to create "half numbers" in between many of the original frames.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ken|last=Jones|date=September 1986|title=Willie Ito|work=[[Comics Interview]]|issue=38|page=49|publisher=[[Fictioneer Books]]}}</ref>

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 children's 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.<ref name="backstage">{{cite AV media notes|title=Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD - "Disney Backstage"|type=Bonus feature|year=2006|publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment}}</ref> Eyvind Earle (who later became the art director of Disney's ''[[Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'') did almost 50 miniature concept sketches for the "Bella Notte" sequence and was a key contributor to the film.<ref name="backstage"/>

====CinemaScope====
{{Further|CinemaScope}}
Originally, ''Lady and the Tramp'' was planned to be filmed in a regular [[full frame (cinematography)|full frame]] [[aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]]. However, due to the growing interest of [[widescreen]] film among movie-goers, Disney decided to animate the film in [[CinemaScope]] making ''Lady and the Tramp'' the first animated feature filmed in the process.<ref name="archive"/> This new innovation presented additional problems for the animators: the expansion of space created more realism but gave fewer closeups.<ref name="thomas"/> 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.<ref name="archive"/> Longer takes become necessary since constant jump-cutting would seem too busy or annoying.<ref name="finch"/> 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.<ref name="thomas"/> Yet the animators overcame these obstacles during the action scenes, such as Tramp killing the rat.<ref name="finch"/>

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.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD - "Behind the Scenes"|year=2006|publisher=Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment}}</ref>

==Release==
''Lady and the Tramp'' was originally released to theaters on June 22, 1955. An episode of ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Disneyland]]'' called "A Story of Dogs" aired before the film's release.<ref name="Newcomb">{{cite book|title=Television: The Critical View|last=Newcomb|first=Horace|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-511927-4|page=27}}</ref> The film was also reissued to theaters in 1962, 1972, 1980, and 1986.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://d23.com/a-to-z/lady-and-the-tramp-film/|title=Lady and the Tramp (film)|publisher=D23|access-date=March 27, 2020|archive-date=April 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409112342/https://d23.com/a-to-z/lady-and-the-tramp-film/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Lady and the Tramp'' also played a limited engagement in select [[Cinemark Theatres]] from February 16–18, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wire|first=Business|url=https://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/02/13/cinemark-announces-the-return-of-favorite-disney-c/|title=Cinemark Announces the Return of Favorite Disney Classic Animated Movies to the Big Screen|publisher=Dailyfinance.com|date=February 13, 2013|access-date=April 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105021126/https://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/02/13/cinemark-announces-the-return-of-favorite-disney-c/|archive-date=November 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Home media===
''Lady and the Tramp'' was first released on North American [[VHS]] cassette and [[Laserdisc]] in 1987 as part of the [[Walt Disney Classics]] video series and in the United Kingdom in 1990. At the end of its initial home video release, it was reported to have sold more than three million copies, becoming the best-selling [[videocassette]] at the time.<ref>{{cite news|last=Yarrow|first=Andrew|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/22/arts/video-cassettes-pushing-books-off-shelves.html|title=Video Cassettes Pushing Books Off Shelves|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 22, 1988|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=February 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219065402/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/22/arts/video-cassettes-pushing-books-off-shelves.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It went into [[Moratorium (entertainment)|moratorium]] on March 31, 1988.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stevens|first=Mary|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/03/18/lady-and-the-tramp-going-back-to-vault/|title='Lady and the Tramp' Going Back To Vault|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=March 18, 1988|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=August 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819045237/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-03-18/entertainment/8803010722_1_playboy-video-hbo-video-disney-home-video|url-status=live}}</ref> The video cassette had grossed {{US$|100 million|long=no}} in sales by 1988. Peggy Lee was asked to help promote the release, for which she was paid $500.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hadden |first1=Briton |title=Is That All There Is? |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=1988 |volume=132 |issue=19–26 |page=589 |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,956430,00.html |quote=Disney asked Lee last year to help promote the release of the Lady and the Tramp cassette, paying a $500 "honorarium" — her only share of the video's $100 million in revenues. |access-date=2021-05-26 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526231846/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,956430,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> After its release on videotape, she sought performance and song royalties on the video sales. Disney CEO [[Michael Eisner]] refused, thus she filed suit in 1988. Eventually in 1992, the California Court of Appeals order Disney to pay Lee $3.2 million in compensation or about 4% of the video sales.<ref name="nyt" />

It was released on VHS again in 1998 as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video series. This one is a [[THX]] certified release that comes in either widescreen or standard versions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-video-file-theyre-bac/156128202/ |title=Video File: They're back |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927202340/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-video-file-theyre-bac/156128202/ |date=September 5, 1998 |access-date=September 27, 2024 |archive-date=September 27, 2024 |page=258 |publisher=[[The Toronto Star]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> A Disney Limited Issue series DVD of the film was released on November 23, 1999, for a limited sixty-day time period.<ref>{{cite press release|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613084632/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Disney+to+Debut+Nine+Classic+Animated+Titles+on+DVD+for+a+Limited...-a055479044|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Disney+to+Debut+Nine+Classic+Animated+Titles+on+DVD+for+a+Limited...-a055479044|title=Disney to Debut Nine Classic Animated Titles on DVD for a Limited Time to Celebrate the Millennium.|location=[[Burbank, California]]|agency=Business Wire|publisher=[[TheFreeDictionary.com#TheFreeLibrary.com|TheFreeLibrary]]|date=August 17, 1999|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=June 13, 2018}}</ref>

''Lady and the Tramp'' was remastered and restored for DVD on February 28, 2006, as the seventh installment of Disney's Platinum Editions series.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ladyandthetramp-platinumedition-pressrelease.html|title=From the Disney Vault! The 50th Anniversary 2-Disc DVD Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp 50th Anniversary Edition|location=Burbank, California|agency=[[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Entertainment]]|publisher=Ultimate Disney|date=October 20, 2005|access-date=May 10, 2006|archive-date=May 13, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513003628/http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ladyandthetramp-platinumedition-pressrelease.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On its first day, one million copies of the Platinum Edition were sold.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ault|first1=Susanne|last2=Netherby|first2=Jennifer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060314153823/http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6312352.htm|url=http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6312352.html|title=''Walk the Line'' Stomps Competition; ''Lady and the Tramp'', ''Pride & Prejudice'' also bow well|date=March 2, 2006|archive-date=March 14, 2006}}</ref> The Platinum Edition DVD went on moratorium on January 31, 2007, along with the 2006 DVD re-issue of the film's sequel ''[[Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/09/29/disney-closes-the-vault|title=Disney Closes the Vault|website=[[IGN]]|date=September 29, 2006|access-date=April 16, 2020|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222211403/http://www.ign.com/articles/2006/09/29/disney-closes-the-vault|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Lady and the Tramp'' was released on [[Blu-ray]] on February 7, 2012, as a part of Disney's Diamond Editions series.<ref name="Toon Zone">{{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|newspaper=Toon Zone|date=November 11, 2011|access-date=November 11, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114154040/http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/39424/pr-disney-to-release-lady-amp-the-tramp-and-cinderella-on-blu-ray-diamond-editions-in-2012|archive-date=November 14, 2011}}</ref> A standalone 1-disc DVD edition was released on March 20, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8637821|title=Lady and the Tramp DVD Movie|access-date=December 11, 2011|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017230852/http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8637821|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Tramp-Bill-Thompson/dp/B0061QD88S/ref=sr_1_4?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1330359764&sr=1-4|title=Amazon.com: Lady and the Tramp: Bill Thompson, Peggy Lee, Larry Roberts, Barbara Luddy, Bill Baucom: Movies & TV|website=Amazon|access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref>

''Lady and the Tramp'' was re-released on Digital HD on February 20, 2018, and on Blu-ray February 27, 2018, as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection line.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rotoscopers.com/2018/01/06/lady-and-the-tramp-to-join-walt-disney-signature-collection-in-february/|title='Lady and the Tramp' to Join Walt Disney Signature Collection in February|date=6 January 2018|publisher=Rotoscopers|access-date=January 6, 2018|archive-date=9 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109122635/http://www.rotoscopers.com/2018/01/06/lady-and-the-tramp-to-join-walt-disney-signature-collection-in-february/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Critical reception===
During its initial release, the film initially received mixed reviews from critics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lady and the Tramp (1955) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/51552-LADY-ANDTHETRAMP?sid=5e189075-e544-49d4-a29e-3cfc68bcde8e&sr=11.372259&cp=1&pos=0 |access-date=November 1, 2024 |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |quote=critical reception to the released film was lukewarm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Braden |first=Donna R. |date=June 21, 2020 |title=Lady and the Tramp Celebrates 65 Years |url=https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/lady-and-the-tramp-celebrates-65-years |access-date=June 25, 2024 |website=[[The Henry Ford]] |quote=this animated feature film received mixed reviews when it was first released on June 22, 1955}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Taylor |date=April 7, 2021 |title=Every Animated Disney Movie From The 20th Century, In Chronological Order |url=https://www.cbr.com/every-20th-century-disney-animated-movie/ |access-date=June 25, 2024 |work=[[Comic Book Resources]] |quote=On June 22, 1955, Lady and the Tramp debuted to mixed reviews}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Walt and Education: Part I |url=https://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/ladyandthetramp/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822192056/http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/ladyandthetramp/index.html |archive-date=August 22, 2007 |access-date=December 24, 2017 |publisher=[[The Walt Disney Family Museum]]}}</ref> [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' claimed the film was "not the best [Disney] has done in this line. The sentimentality is mighty, and the CinemaScope size does not make for any less aware of the thickness of the goo. It also magnifies the animation, so that the flaws and poor foreshortening are more plain. Unfortunately, and surprisingly, the artists' work is below par in this film."<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/06/24/archives/screen-dogs-and-lovers-disneys-lady-and-the-tramp-at-roxy.html|title=Screen: Dogs and Lovers; Disney's 'Lady and the Tramp' at Roxy|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 24, 1955|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=June 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613043843/https://www.nytimes.com/1955/06/24/archives/screen-dogs-and-lovers-disneys-lady-and-the-tramp-at-roxy.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' wrote "Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807375,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215060844/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807375,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 15, 2008|title=Cinema: The New Pictures|magazine=Time|volume=66|issue=2|date=July 11, 1955|access-date=June 12, 2018}}</ref> However, ''Variety'' deemed the film "a delight for the juveniles and a joy for adults".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety198-1955-04/page/n149/mode/2up|title=Lady and the Tramp (C'Scope-Color-Songs)|magazine=Variety|page=6|date=April 20, 1955|access-date=June 12, 2018|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' felt the "scintillating musical score and several songs, the dialogue and the voices, the behaviors and expressions of the different characters, the mellow turn-of-the-century backgrounds, the beautiful color and sweep of the CinemaScope process — all these add up to the one of the most enjoyable cartoon features Disney has ever made."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/harrisonsreports37harr#page/66/mode/2up/|title=Lady and the Tramp|magazine=Harrison's Reports|volume=37|issue=17|page=67|date=April 23, 1955|access-date=March 10, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Edwin Schallert of the ''Los Angeles Times'' described the film as a "delightful, haunting, charmed fantasy that is remarkably enriched with music and, incidentally, with rare conversations among the canine characters."<ref>Schallert, Edwin (June 24, 1955). "[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380668385/ 'Lady and Tramp' Dazzling Triumph] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803104047/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380668385/ |date=2020-08-03 }}". ''Los Angeles Times''. Part III, pg. 7. – via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>

[[File:LadyandtheTrampfamouscene.jpg|thumb|right|The sequence of Lady and Tramp sharing a plate of spaghetti — climaxed by an accidental kiss as they swallow opposite ends of the same strand of spaghetti — is considered an iconic scene in American film history.]]

However, the film has since gone on to become regarded as a classic. Both [[Gene Siskel]] and [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film a positive review on their show ''[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|At the Movies]]'' when re-released in 1986, with Ebert in particular praising the opening scene of Lady as a puppy calling it one of the greatest animated sequences Disney ever did.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Platoon, Lady and the Tramp, No Mercy, 1986 |url=https://siskelebert.org/?p=3848 |series=[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|At the Movies]] |date=1986 |access-date=2023-10-13 |archive-date=2023-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324163112/https://siskelebert.org/?p=3848 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Dave Kehr]], writing for ''[[The Chicago Tribune]]'' gave the film four stars.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kehr|first=Dave|url=https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-12-19/entertainment/8604050010_1_character-animation-peggy-lee-love-story|title='Lady and the Tramp' Love Story Still Works – 31 Years Later|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 19, 1986|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=August 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801020629/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-12-19/entertainment/8604050010_1_character-animation-peggy-lee-love-story|url-status=dead}}</ref> Animation historian Charles Solomon praised the film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Solomon|first=Charles|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-19-ca-3690-story.html|title=Movie Review : A Fresh Look At 'Lady And The Tramp'|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 19, 1986|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=December 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210214725/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-19/entertainment/ca-3690_1_american-tail|url-status=live}}</ref> The sequence of Lady and Tramp sharing a plate of spaghetti — climaxed by an accidental kiss as they swallow opposite ends of the same strand of spaghetti — is considered an iconic scene in American film history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmsite.org/iconicfilmscenes.html|title=100 Most Iconic Film Images, Moments, or Scenes|last=Dirks|first=Tim|work=filmsite|publisher=AMC|access-date=December 25, 2017|archive-date=July 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718035200/https://www.filmsite.org/iconicfilmscenes.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[review aggregator]] website Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film received {{a or an|{{RT data|score}}}} approval rating, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}, based on {{RT data|count}} reviews. The website's consensus states, "A nostalgic charmer, ''Lady and the Tramp''{{'}}s token sweetness is mighty but the songs and richly colored animation are technically superb and make for a memorable experience."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lady_and_the_tramp|title=Lady and the Tramp (1955)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=22 June 1955|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date={{RT data|access date}}|archive-date=13 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913111207/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lady_and_the_tramp|url-status=live}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref>

''Lady and the Tramp'' contains several instances of [[Ethnic stereotype|ethnic and cultural stereotyping]]. The depiction of the pair of Siamese cats in particular has been recognized for its racist [[Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States|Asian stereotypes]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Espinoza |first1=Andrea Daniela |title=Lady & The Tramp: 10 Things That Didn't Age Well |url=https://screenrant.com/disney-lady-and-the-tramp-aged-poorly/ |work=ScreenRant |date=March 20, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> "The Siamese Cat Song" was cut from the 2019 live-action remake of the film,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Greg |title=Six Disney Classics Tagged For Racist Imagery On Disney+ Including 'Peter Pan', 'The Jungle Book' & 'The Aristocats' |url=https://deadline.com/2020/10/disney-racist-warnings-peter-pan-the-jungle-book-the-aristocats-lady-and-the-tramp-1234598855/ |work=Deadline |date=October 16, 2020}}</ref> and in 2020 [[Disney+]] included a content warning at the beginning of the film, advising viewers of "negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures".<ref>{{cite news |title=Disney updates content warning for racism in classic films |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54566087 |work=BBC |date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

''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.<ref>{{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|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707093057/http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/passions100.pdf?docID=248l|archive-date=July 7, 2011}}</ref> In 2010, [[Rhapsody (online music service)|Rhapsody]] called its accompanying soundtrack one of the all-time great Disney and Pixar soundtracks.<ref>{{cite news|title=Essential Disney & Pixar Soundtracks|url=https://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/06/disney.html|date=June 15, 2010|access-date=July 27, 2010|author=Richard Corliss|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002121800/http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/06/disney.html|archive-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> In June 2011, ''TIME'' named it one of "The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films&nbsp;– Lady and the Tramp|url=https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2079149_2079152,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624230142/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2079149_2079152,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 24, 2011|magazine=Time|author=Richard Corliss|date=June 23, 2011|access-date=August 19, 2011}}</ref>

===Box office===
In its initial release, 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]]'',<ref name="Newcomb" /> earning an estimated $6.5 million in distributor rentals.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety201-1956-01/page/n673|title=1955's Top Film Grossers|page=1|magazine=Variety|volume=201|issue=8|date=January 25, 1956|access-date=June 12, 2018|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> When it was re-released in 1962, it grossed roughly between $6 million and $7 million. During its 1971 re-release, the film grossed $10 million, and when it was re-released again in 1980, it grossed $27 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/02/movies/at-the-movies.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=1|last=Darnton|first=Nina|title=At the Movies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 2, 1987|access-date=October 4, 2019|archive-date=September 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917032907/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/02/movies/at-the-movies.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=1|url-status=live}}</ref> During its fourth re-release in 1986, it garnered $31.1 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/mpaarating.htm?rating=G&yr=1986&p=.htm|title=1986 Yearly Box Office for G Rated Movies|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 4, 2019|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314045243/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/mpaarating.htm?rating=G&yr=1986&p=.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Lady and the Tramp'' has had a domestic lifetime gross of $93.6 million,<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Russell|first=Candice|url=https://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-11-22/features/9102180126_1_mrs-potts-animation-department-beast|title=A Box-office Draw A French Fairy Tale That Has Been Languishing At Disney Studios For Years, Beauty And The Beast Now Seems Destined To Join The Ranks Of The Very Best Animated Classics.|page=2|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=November 22, 1991|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613084648/https://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-11-22/features/9102180126_1_mrs-potts-animation-department-beast|archive-date=June 13, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a lifetime international gross of $187 million.<ref name="ToonedIn"/>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! Ceremony
! Award
! Result
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1956
| [[9th British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/nominations/?year=1955 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-09-08 |archive-date=2010-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921081423/http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/nominations/?year=1955 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| Best Animated Film
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]<ref>{{in lang|it}} Academia del Cinema Italiano {{cite web|url=http://www.daviddidonatello.it/english/premia.php|title=Ente David di Donatello - Accademia del Cinema Italiano|access-date=November 15, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103225831/http://www.daviddidonatello.it/english/premia.php|archive-date=November 3, 2009}}</ref>
| {{ubl|Best Foreign Producer|<small>(Walt Disney)</small>}}
| {{Won}}
|-
| 2006
| [[Satellite Award]]s<ref>Press Academy {{cite web|url=http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2006.shtml|title=Archived copy|access-date=March 6, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718091353/http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2006.shtml|archive-date=July 18, 2011}}</ref>
| Best Youth DVD
| {{nom}}
|}

====[[American Film Institute]] Lists====
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions]]&nbsp;– No. 95

==Music==
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The score for the film was composed and conducted by [[Oliver Wallace]]. It was the last Disney animated film for which Oliver Wallace did the score, as the scores for the next six Disney animated films were composed by [[George Bruns]], starting with [[Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|''Sleeping Beauty'']] until [[Robin Hood (1973 film)|''Robin Hood'']]. Recording artist Peggy Lee wrote the songs with [[Sonny Burke]] and assisted with the score as well.<ref name="archive"/> In the film, she sings "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "He's a Tramp".<ref>{{cite web|work=Peggy Lee's Official Website|title=Peggy Lee's Film Appearances|url=http://www.peggylee.com/solos/films.html|access-date=2009-05-04|archive-date=2017-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528120310/http://www.peggylee.com/solos/films.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref name="archive"/> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://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|access-date=February 10, 2017|archive-date=October 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070521/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/17/movies/peggy-lee-is-suing-disney.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After a protracted legal battle, she was awarded $2.3 million in 1991.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2066858.stm|title=Stars share royalties victory|date=June 26, 2002|access-date=January 5, 2010|work=BBC News|archive-date=March 17, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317085344/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2066858.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The remastered soundtrack of ''Lady and the Tramp'' was released on CD by [[Walt Disney Records]] on September 9, 1997, and was released as a digital download on September 26, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady and the Tramp [Disney] – Original Soundtrack|website=AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lady-and-the-tramp-disney-mw0000028327|access-date=February 4, 2014|archive-date=December 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217044237/https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000028327|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Songs===
Original songs performed in the film include:

{{Track listing
| all_writing     = 
| all_lyrics      = 
| all_music       = 
| extra_column    = Performer(s)

| title1  = Main Title ([[Bella Notte]])
| extra1  = The Disney Studio Chorus

| title2  = [[Silent Night (song)|Peace on Earth]]
| extra2  = [[Donald Novis]]

| title3  = What Is a Baby 
| extra3  = [[Barbara Luddy]]

| title4  = La La Lu
| extra4  = [[Peggy Lee]]

| title5 = The Siamese Cat Song 
| extra5  = [[Peggy Lee]]

| title6 = [[Bella Notte]]
| extra6  = [[George Givot]] & The Disney Studio Chorus

| title7 = He's a Tramp
| extra7  = [[Peggy Lee]] & [[The Mellomen]]

| title8 = Finale ([[Silent Night (song)|Peace on Earth]])
| extra8  = The Disney Studio Chorus
}}

==Other media==
===Comics===
*From October 31, 1955 to June 25, 1988 [[Scamp (comics)|Scamp]] comic strip was published by King Feature Syndicate.<ref name=Holtz>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |pages=342–343}}</ref>
*The comic book was also published by [[Dell Comics]]' first issue being ''[[Disney comics#Four Color|Four Color]]'' #703 (May 1956); this turned into a regular comic book series which had #16 issues ending in December 1960. A second series was launched by [[Gold Key Comics]] in 1967-1979; which ran for 45 issues.<ref name=Holtz/>

===Sequel===
{{Main|Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure}}
On February 27, 2001, [[Disney Television Animation]] and [[Disneytoon Studios|Disney Video Premiere]] released a direct-to-video sequel to the film titled ''[[Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure]]''. Produced 46 years after its predecessor and set two years and a few months after the events of the first film, it centers on the adventures of Lady and Tramp's only son, [[Scamp (comics)|Scamp]], who desires to be a wild dog. He runs away from his family and joins a gang of [[wrecking yard|junkyard]] dogs to fulfill his longing for freedom and a life without rules. Reviews for the sequel were generally mixed to negative, with critics panning its plot.

===Live-action remake===
{{Main|Lady and the Tramp (2019 film)}}
[[Walt Disney Pictures]] produced a live-action remake of the film with [[Justin Theroux]] and [[Tessa Thompson]] in the voice roles of Tramp and Lady respectively.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Couch|first1=Aaron|title=Justin Theroux to Voice Star in Disney's 'Lady and the Tramp' Remake|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lady-tramp-remake-star-justin-theroux-1130108|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=July 26, 2018|access-date=July 26, 2018|language=en|archive-date=July 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727020322/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lady-tramp-remake-star-justin-theroux-1130108|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/tessa-thompson-lady-and-the-tramp-benedict-wong/|title=Exclusive: Tessa Thompson to Star in 'Lady and the Tramp' for Disney's Streaming Service|last=Sneider|first=Jeff|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|date=August 14, 2018|access-date=August 14, 2018|archive-date=August 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815024308/http://collider.com/tessa-thompson-lady-and-the-tramp-benedict-wong/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/thomas-mann-lady-and-the-tramp-jim-dear-1202909041/|title=Thomas Mann Joins Disney's Live-Action 'Lady and the Tramp' (EXCLUSIVE)|website=Variety|last=Kroll|first=Justin|date=August 17, 2018|access-date=August 17, 2018|archive-date=August 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817214752/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/thomas-mann-lady-and-the-tramp-jim-dear-1202909041/|url-status=live}}</ref> The movie premiered on Disney's new streaming service, [[Disney+]], on its US launch date of November 12, 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/04/lady-and-the-tramp-disney-launch-sean-baily-live-action-slate-1202594405/|title=Disney Film Production Chief Sean Bailey On Streaming Service's Live-Action Slate; 'Lady And The Tramp' Available At Launch|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=April 11, 2019|access-date=April 11, 2019|archive-date=April 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414084622/https://deadline.com/2019/04/lady-and-the-tramp-disney-launch-sean-baily-live-action-slate-1202594405/|url-status=live}}</ref> to mixed reviews.

===Video games===
In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games, a statue of Lady and Tramp appears  in a fountain in Traverse Town.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

In the [[City-building game|world builder]] game ''[[Disney Magic Kingdoms]]'', Lady, Tramp, Tony, Joe, Jock and Trusty appear as playable characters, along with some attractions based on locations of the film. In the game the characters are involved in new storylines that serve as a continuation of the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-81_FJRx8M&ab_channel=DisneyMagicKingdoms|title=Update 38: Lady and the Tramp {{!}} Livestream|publisher=[[YouTube]]|date=January 31, 2020|access-date=October 19, 2022|archive-date=July 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710114426/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-81_FJRx8M&ab_channel=DisneyMagicKingdoms|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Disney Parks and Resorts ==
Walt Disney wanted the setting of the film to be [[Marceline, Missouri]] which had been his childhood hometown. Whilst ''Lady and the Tramp'' was in production, Walt was also designing [[Disneyland]] in [[California]] and styled the [[Main Street, U.S.A.]] area of the park to Marceline. Tony's Town Square Restaurant is an Italian restaurant inspired by Lady and the Tramp and is located on [[Main Street, U.S.A.]] at [[Walt Disney World]], whilst the Pizzeria Bella Notte restaurant is in [[Fantasyland]] at [[Disneyland Paris]].

==See also==
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* [[1955 in film]]
* [[List of American films of 1955]]
* [[List of Walt Disney Pictures films]]
* [[List of Disney theatrical animated features]]
* [[List of animated feature films of the 1950s]]
* [[List of highest-grossing animated films]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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