Lady (Lady and the Tramp)
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Lady was the name of a fictitious animated dog who starred in Disney's movie Lady and the Tramp. Later, the cartoon cocker spaniel went on to play a supporting role in Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure.
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[edit] Personality
On the surface Lady possesses a classical canine personality: loving, good-spirited, and basically trusting. But although she is not quite as strong or forceful a character as Tramp, she is not without strength of her own. Romantic she may be, as well as frequently confused and terrified, but there is steel in her, as seen when she tells Tramp to go away following the unfortunate incident at the pound. An even greater degree of steel is shown as she struggles to break her chain in order to get at the rat that has infiltrated the baby's room (she is eventually successful).
Of all the characters in the two movies, Lady was one of those that changed the least between Lady and the Tramp and Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure. She is still the same loving, tender-hearted, quiet-spoken dog as always, and provides a lighter contrast to Tramp's sometimes-excessive discipline.
[edit] Trivia
- There has been a lot of confusion about Lady's origins. It is verifiable that the opening sequence of the first movie, in which Jim Dear gives Lady to Darling in a hat box, was based on an actual event from Walt Disney's life. Once, having forgotten a dinner date with his wife, Walt gave her a puppy in a hatbox by way of a peace offering. It worked: she forgave him. As for which dog Lady was modeled after, accounts vary. Some say she was the same dog Walt gave to his wife, while others say it was a cocker spaniel called Lady which belonged to the animator Hamilton Luske.
- In contrast to the modern "blue for a boy, pink for a girl" color-coordination, Lady wears a blue collar, whereas Jock (and eventually Tramp) wear pinkish red ones. Since the movie appears to take place around the turn of the century, this may be a nod to the older (until the 1920s) tradition that reserved sky blue for girls and pink (a "diminutive" form of the masculine red) for baby boys.
