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Ward Greene (December 23, 1892 – January 22, 1956) was an American writer, editor, journalist, playwright, and general manager of the comic syndicate King Features Syndicate. [2]
Ward Greene. Writer: Lady and the Tramp. American novelist Ward Greene was born in Asheville, NC, in 1892 to a family that could trace its lineage back to the American Revolution (one of his ancestors was Gen. Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army, who served under Gen. George Washington).
- December 23, 1892
- January 22, 1956
Apr 10, 2014 · In the early ‘40s, Walt Disney read Ward Greene’s story, “Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog,” in Cosmopolitan and recalled that ember of an idea about a dog. Disney immediately brought Greene in to write a treatment. Greene penned a canine romance, and the Disney machine began cranking on its next story.
Oct 9, 2013 · Ward Greene was editor and general manager of King Features newspaper syndicate, which published the Disney comic strips. During the time he worked for King Features, Greene...
- It Was Inspired by A Real Dog Named Lady.
- Walt Disney Personally Came Up with The Name “Tramp.”
- The Real Tramp Was A Girl.
- The Disney Offices Were Filled with Live Animals For The Animators to reference.
- Walt Thought The Animators Lost Focus.
- Roy Disney Helped Bring The Movie Back to Life.
- A Gift Walt Once Gave His Wife Inspired A Scene in The Movie.
- Many of The Characters Went Through Name changes.
- Other Characters Didn’T Make The Cut at all.
- A Song called “I’m Free” Was Also Chopped.
In 1937, Disney writer Joe Grant showed Walt Disney some sketches he had done of his Springer Spaniel, Lady. Walt was impressed, and encouraged Joe to create a full storyboard. Like her fictional counterpart, the real-life Lady was learning how to deal with her owners’ new baby, which served as the main inspiration for Grant’s plot. In the end, Wal...
In early drafts, the scruffy male dog was called Homer, Rags, Bozo, and even just Mutt. Walt himself scratched out “Mutt” in one of the scripts and penciled in“Tramp.” Ward Greene and the movie's distributors protested, feeling the name was a little too risque—but Walt Disney usually got his way, and this was no exception.
The writers and animators had plenty of inspiration for Lady, as some of the people involved with the film had spaniels they brought in as models. But the perfect mutt proved to be more elusive. One of the writers spottedthe perfect happy-yet-bedraggled dog roaming around his neighborhood and tried to coax it over, but the dog was too quick. After ...
Not only were there dogs of every shape and size roaming around, but animator Woolie Reitherman kept a cage of ratsnext to his desk to reference for the rat fighting scene.
The idea for the story originated in 1937, and the rights to “Happy Dan” were purchased in the early 1940s—so why did it take until 1955 to get the movie out? Well, for one, Disney switched its focus somewhat during WWII, working on propaganda films. But at one point, Disney felt his animators had lost their feel for the characters. He removed them...
When the movie was put on the back burner due to WWII, it was almost forgotten completely. It wasn’t until 1952 that Roy O. Disney, Walt’s brother, encouraged himto start work on the movie again, outlining a plan to run the film in smaller first-run theaters only.
For Christmas one year, Walt bought his wife, Lillian, a Chow puppy. Instead of just trotting it out, Disney placed the puppy into a hatbox and presented his wife with the gift. She was disappointed at first—Lillian preferred to choose her own hats—but quickly recovered when the pup emerged. They named him Sunnee.
The sinister Siamese cats had been part of the script since Joe Grant’s earliest versions, but instead of Si and Am, they were originallycalled Nip and Tuck. They belonged to an equally sinister mother-in-law, then called “Mumsie,” who later evolved into Aunt Sarah. And Jim Dear and Darling were once known as “Mr. and Mrs. Fred.”
Secondary characters that eventually got the axeincludeda pet duck that belonged to a neighbor and a canary named Trilby.
After the Tramp character was further developed, it was decided that the tune no longer fit his roguish character as well as it once had. It was released as an extrawhen the movie came out on Blu-ray in 2012.
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Ward Greene (December 23, 1892 – January 22, 1956) was an American writer, editor, journalist, playwright, and general manager of the comic syndicate King Features Syndicate. [2]
Ward Greene (December 23, 1892 – January 22, 1956) was an American writer, editor, journalist, playwright, and general manager of the comic syndicate King Features Syndicate.
