Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated romance film produced by Walt Disney. It premiered on June 16, 1955, and was originally released to theaters on June 22 by Buena Vista Film Distribution, making it the first Disney animated film to not be distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The 15th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope Widescreen film process. The story, which was based on the book Happy Dan the Whistling Dog by Ward Greene, centers on a female American Cocker Spaniel named Lady, who lives with a refined, upper-middle-class family, and a male stray mutt named Tramp. A direct-to-video sequel called Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, was released in 2001. While a modest success at first, it is now considered one of Disney's greatest classics.
In 2019, Disney released a live-action adaptation of the film, with the same name.
In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Lady and the Tramp is rated G by the MPAA. This is the fifteenth Disney animated movie to be rated as such in the US after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.
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(Preview posters of Christmas 1971 releases)
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- The film's copyright was renewed on March 21, 1983.[1]
- The crazy laugh of the Hyena, provided by Dallas McKennon, was later used as a stock sound effect for crazy laughter, specifically the laughing hyenas in the It's a Small World attraction. It was also heard in the 1979 horror film, Tourist Trap, Jon Favreau's 2003 Christmas comedy film, Elf, and as the original voice of Ripper Roo in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise.
- The footage of the chickens sleeping in the barn is recycled animation from the 1938 short, Farmyard Symphony.
- The town is inspired by Marceline, Missouri.
- This is the final Disney animated feature to have its score composed by lifelong composer Oliver Wallace before George Bruns started writing the scores for the next six animated features, beginning with Sleeping Beauty until Robin Hood.
- In some VHS releases, the scene where Tramp hears Lady barking at the rat was cut from the film.
- Although RKO Radio Pictures didn't distribute the film in the United States, the company did distribute the film in some other countries, like Australia and Argentina.
- Since 2021, Lady and the Tramp has been restricted to Disney+ viewers 7 years and older, due in part to the characters Si and Am and its negative portrayal of Asians.