The Dirty Dozen Film Review #26:Lady And The Tramp (1955) Cassandra Majors It is my pleasure to review Walt Disneys charming Lady And The Tramp.It was released June 22,1955.4 months before I was born.It is billed as a romantic comedy.It is that and so much more. Set in 1909 at Christmas time,Jim Dear presents Daring with a gift.Its a hat box,but that is no hat in the box.Darling opens her gift and finds and finds an adorable cocker spaniel puppy.Darling exclaims what a perfect little lady she is. Lady settles into life with Jim Dear and Darling.When she is given her dog tag and collar she goes to show it off and we are introduced to her friends.Jock and Trusty.Lady is the center of Jim Dear and Darlings life until one certain day when Jim Dear comes home and goes straight to Darling without paying Lady any attention.Lady is very hurt and tells her friends that she must have done something very wrong because as she was trying to get Darlings attention to take her for her walk Darling was humming and knitting something.Lady tried to play with the ball of yarn and Darling swatted her behind.Lady explains that it didnt hurt her but it did hurt her feelings.Jock and Trusty explain to Lady that it will be okay, but that there will be someone else joining the family.A baby.Lady is very troubled as she doesnt know what a baby is. Tramp,a worldly dog with no owners and not a care in the world comes into the yard and tells Lady that once the baby comes,out she goes.Jock, Trusty and Lady are all appalled at Tramp telling him of course that wont happen. Months go by and one night the baby is born.After a few days Lady hears the baby and goes up to his room to see what is happening.Jim Dear holds her up to see the baby and Lady is satisfied and happy with the baby knowing Jim Dear and Darling still love her and the baby will not replace Lady. Jim Dear and Darling leave to go on a trip and Aunt Sarah comes to take care of the baby bringing her two trouble making Siamese cats with her.Aunt Sarah,thinking Lady caused the trouble with her two precious babies,decides Lady needs a muzzle. At the pet shop,where Aunt Sarah takes Lady to buy her muzzle,Lady becomes very frightened and runs away.Lady encounters a pack of stray dogs. Tramp rescues her and tricks a beaver at the local zoo into removing the muzzle. Later, Tramp shows Lady how he lives footloose and collar-free, eventually leading into a candlelit Italian dinner at Tonys. Lady begins to fall in love with Tramp, but she chooses to return home in order to watch over the baby. Tramp offers to escort Lady back home, but when Tramp decides to chase hens around a farmyard for fun, Lady is caught by the dog catcher. At the pound, she learns more about Tramps past and that its his nature to not live in a home. I wont tell you the ending because if you havent seen this you should.It is a timeless movie.I told my 7 year old niece and granddaughter I was reviewing this for our old movie group.My niece said,Old?Its not old! The idea for Lady And the Tramp was first conceived in 1937. Joe Grant came up with an idea inspired by the antics of his English Springer Spaniel Lady, and how she got shoved aside by Joes 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.[4] Through the late 1930s and early 1940s, Joe Grant and other artists worked on the story, taking a variety of approaches, but Disney wasnt pleased with any of them, primarily because he thought Lady was too sweet, and there wasnt enough action. 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, shes 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 Sarahs Nip and Tuck were later renamed Si and Am.[5] Originally, Ladys owners were called Jim Brown and Elizabeth. These were changed to highlight Ladys point of view. They were briefly referred to as Mister and Missis before settling on the names Jim Dear and Darling. To maintain a dogs perspective, Darling and Jims 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 dogs 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). By June 1943, a treatment had been completed, but the artists were not 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 films opening sequence, in which Darling unwraps a hat box on Christmas morning and finds Lady inside, is based on an incident when Walt Disney presented his wife Lily with a Chow puppy as a gift in a hat box. Lady and The Tramp was the 15 animated film from Walt Disney.There are seven very charming songs in this movie.Hes A Tramp is sung by Peggy Lee,a very famous singer at the time.The Siamese Cat Song is a fun song,sung during the time when the cats are introduced and are giving sweet Lady trouble.La La LuIs a very sweet lullaby sung during the time Lady is being introduced to the new baby.Bella Notte is the romantic song the waiter sings to The Tramp and Lady during the famous spaghetti scene,which was almost cut from the movie by Walt Disney himself as he thought two dogs eating spaghetti would look silly and not romantic. The film was originally released in theaters on 22 June 1955. At the time, the film took in a higher figure than any other Disney animated feature since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, earning an estimated $7.5 million in rentals at the North American box office in 1955.
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