Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Tony

Original production animation drawing brown and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet,
image size: 6.5" x 8.25".
This charming rough animation drawing of Tony, the Italian restauranteur, was created by Disney animator John Lounsbery in development of a scene in Walt Disney's CinemaScope animated feature. It is an animator’s extreme drawing with grid drawn at right.

Tramp escorts Lady to dinner at the alley entrance to Tony's where he and his host entice the shy "cockerala spanish'a girl" from the shadow into the light. The big-hearted Tony reaches down to pet Lady and comments to Tramp: "Hey, she's pretty sweet'a kiddo, Butch'a." George Givot and Bill Thompson masterfully performed the roles of Tony and Joe; together they performed "Bella Notte," the song written by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke that has come to define the sequence, one of the most romantic in Disney animation.

John Lounsbery, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of this scene, and this is one of his drawings. The animator wrote the designation "93" (renumbered from "A115") at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene; he wrote Tony's word of dialogue—"Pretty"—at the top of the sheet. A certificate of authenticity is included.



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