The Aristocats
A tune-filled animated extravaganza.
Country
Production
Budget
$4 000 000
Box office
$18 000 217
Director
Actors
Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, Paul Winchell, Lord Tim Hudson, Vito Scotti, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dean Clark, Liz English
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Wolfgang Reitherman, Winston Hibler
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Tom Acosta
Whole Team (26)
Whole Team (26)
Short description
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
What's left behind the scenes
- The character nicknamed “Kysh-Brys” was originally intended to be voiced by Louis Armstrong (1901-1971). Even his image was based on the famous musician – the way he plays the trumpet, certain features of his appearance, including the gap between his front teeth. Unfortunately, due to illness, Armstrong was never able to participate in the voice acting. He was replaced by actor, singer, dancer and musician Scatman Crothers (1910-1986), who was told to “pretend to be Satchmo” (Armstrong’s nickname).
- The plot of the cartoon is based on the real story of a cat family that lived in Paris in the early 20th century and inherited all of its owner's fortune.
- The hunting dogs Napoleon and Lafayette are named after the French military leaders Napoleon I Bonaparte (1769-1821) and Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), respectively.
- The Duchess's kittens, Toulouse and Berlioz, are named after post-impressionist artist Count Henri Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864-1901) and composer and conductor Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), respectively.
- The image of the alley cat Thomas O'Malley is based on singer, songwriter, jazz musician and actor Phil Harris (1904-1995), who also voiced him.
- This was Bill Thompson's (1913-1971) last work in cinema. The actor died less than a year after the cartoon was released.
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