Lady was the ideal Christmas present for Darling.
John Grant
Walt डिज़्नी Character विवरण of Lady from "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
The opening sequence in the movie, when Darling opens up a hatbox to discover that the gift which Jim Dear has दिया her for क्रिस्मस is a puppy, Lady, had its origins in an incident in Walt's own life. Many years before he had forgotten about a रात का खाना तारीख, दिनांक with his wife, and some sort of gift द्वारा way of a peace-offering was definitely called for - something really special. His solution was to give her a कुत्ते का बच्चा, पिल्ला in a hatbox. It worked: she forgave him. It was an event which Walt knew he could someday put to good use in a cartoon.
The model for Lady was a cocker चाटुकार, स्पैनियल called Lady which belonged to the animator Hamilton Luske. In reality, however, there are two "Ladies" in the movie - the newborn कुत्ते का बच्चा, पिल्ला and the young female dog. Both are evidently the same animal, but the older version has quite definite fremale characteristics while the कुत्ते का बच्चा, पिल्ला is, like all puppies, essentially sexless. However, the underlying character - loving, basically trusting, good-spirited - is much the same.
Although Lady is not such a strong character as Tramp, she is द्वारा no means the useful cipher that so many of the डिज़्नी central characters are: romantic she may be, often terrified and confused she may be, but there is also a deal of steel in there, as we discover during the consecutive sequences when she first tells Tramp to go away and leave her and, second, attempts to break her chain (she is finally successful) in order to chase and fight the चूहा and thereby save the baby. Barbara Luddy voiced these two aspects of Lady's character exellently, being द्वारा turns romantic and stern; she also managed to convey Lady's fundamental decency - the voice alone tells आप that Lady is the sort of dog आप would ideally like to own and let your children grow up with.
Lady is decent, but she is no naíve innocent. Without really skirting around the issue, डिज़्नी managed to get over the idea that कुत्ता do in fact mate, even before "marriage", yet in no way is this at all offensive. That, for the studio, was a minor and generally ignored triumph.
One trivial point of interest: Lady has a blue कॉलर while both Jock and (in due couse) Tramp have pinkish-red ones. No "blue for a boy, गुलाबी for a girl" here!
It's amazing how a plateful of spaghetti goes to a lady's head.
