Lady and the Tramp
Trivia
Peggy Lee later sued Disney for breach of contract claiming that she still retained rights to the transcripts. She was awarded $2.3m, but not without a lengthy legal battle with the studio which was finally settled in 1991.
In the climax of the picture, Jock and Trusty bring down the dog catcher's wagon, with Tramp inside. After this, Jock discovers that Trusty has been injured and pinned under the wagon. Jock is very sad because Trusty was originally supposed to die in this scene. That is why Jock nudges him and he does not rouse. When Walt Disney viewed this scene, he was shocked. Walt did not want a repeat of the traumatic scene in Bambi (1942). He thought it was too intense. Walt then made the animators put Trusty into the end Christmas scene to reassure the audience that Trusty was simply knocked out and injured in the previous scene.
"Darling's" real name is never used, even her friends call her "darling" at the baby shower. It is unclear if that's her name or an endearment
Though it is partially based on a story called "Happy, the Whistling Dog", this is considered the first fully-original Disney animated story.
The idea of Lady being given as a present in a hat box came from an event in real life. Walt Disney gave his wife a dog the same way.
In early script versions, Tramp was first called Homer, then Rags and Bozo. A 1940 script introduced the twin Siamese cats. Eventually known as Si and Am, they were then named Nip and Tuck.
The original story was created by Joe Grant while Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was nearing post-production. Ward Greene used Joe Grant's original version as the basis for his novel. Greene's novel was still being written while the film was still in production. Grant's wife was said to have been angry over the story being "stolen" but Walt Disney maintained all legal rights to the story.
The film's setting was partly inspired by Walt Disney's boyhood hometown of Marceline, Missouri.
Goofs
When Jim puts the puppy, Lady, in her basket, he puts down some paper on the floor. A few shots later, the paper disappears.
Trusty's nose changes from black to brown for a second and back again while recollecting about Ol' Reliable to Jock and Lady.
Lady's collar changes from blue to tan When jock and Trusty find her outside after she thinks she has done wrong causing Darling to smack her for taking the yarn.
After ''We are Siamese'', when Lady is chasing the two cats, the cats knock down blueish colored curtains which tangle up Lady. After Aunt Sarah comes into the room, Lady is tangled up in red curtains.
Jim Dear puts a chair in front of the cellar door to keep the young Lady from escaping. When Lady looks under the door, there is no sign of the chair, but it is there in the next shot. Later, when Jim tells Lady to go to sleep, the shadow of his legs is seen coming from underneath the door, but there is no shadow of the chair's legs.
In a scene where Lady is at the bottom of the staircase, on her way up, there is a mirror to her left. You see her reflection as she is about to start up the stairs, then the reflection disappears before she moves.