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1. MARIE ARISTOCAT CAKE

2. The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic adventure musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney
Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. The 20th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on a story by
Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps
them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress's fortune which was intended to go to them. The film features the
voices of Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Phil Harris, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-
Roxby.
In 1962, The Aristocats began as an original script for a two-part live-action episode for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of
Color,developed by writers Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe and producer Harry Tytle. Following two years of re-writes, Walt
Disneysuggested the project would be more suitable for an animated film, and placed the project in turnaround as The Jungle
Bookadvanced into production. When The Jungle Book was nearly complete, Disney appointed Ken Anderson to develop
preliminary work on The Aristocats, which would mark the last film project to be approved by Disney before his death in
December 1966.
The Aristocats was released on December 11, 1970, to positive reception, and was a box office success.
THE ARISTOCATS

3. Marie Aristocat

4. PLOT
 n Paris 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Berlioz, Marie and Toulouse live with retired opera
diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, and her English butler, Edgar. While preparing her will with lawyer
Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares her fortune to be left to her cats until their deaths, and thereafter to
Edgar. Edgar hears this through a speaking tube, and plots to eliminate the cats. Therefore, he sedates the
cats by putting sleeping pills in a milk mixture intended for them, and enters the countryside to abandon
them. There, he is ambushed by two hounds named Napoleon and Lafayette, and the cats are stranded in
the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the mouse and Frou-Frou the horse discover their
absence.
 In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the
kittens to Paris. The group briefly hitchhikes in a milk truck before being chased off by the driver. Later,
while crossing a railroad trestle, the cats narrowly avoid an oncoming train, but Marie falls into a river and is
saved by O'Malley, who in turn has to be rescued himself by two English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble,
who accompany the cats to Paris. Edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions from Napoleon
and Lafayette, as the only evidence that could incriminate him.

5. PLOT
 Travelling across the rooftops of the city, the cats meet O'Malley's friend Scat Cat and his
musicians, who perform the song Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat. After the band has departed,
O'Malley and Duchess converse on a nearby rooftop while the kittens listen at a windowsill. Here,
Duchess' loyalty to Madame prompts her to decline O'Malley's proposal of marriage. Duchess
and the kittens return to Madame's mansion, but Edgar places them in a sack and prepares to
ship them to Timbuktu; whereupon they direct Roquefort to retrieve O'Malley. He does so, and
O'Malley returns to the mansion, instructing Roquefort to locate Scat Cat and his gang. This
done, the alley cats and Frou-Frou fight Edgar, while Roquefort frees Duchess and the kittens. At
the end of the fight, Edgar is locked in his own packing-case and sent to Timbuktu himself.
Madame Adelaide's will is rewritten to exclude Edgar, with Madame remaining ignorant of the
reason for Edgar's departure. After adopting O’Malley into the family, Madame establishes a
charity foundation housing Paris' stray cats (represented by Scat Cat and his band, who reprise
their song).

6. CAST
 Eva Gabor as Duchess – Madame Adelaide's cat and mother of three kittens; but forced to choose between loyalty to Madame and
her own attachment to Thomas O'Malley, until the end of the film. Robie Lester provided the singing voice for Duchess.
 Phil Harris as Thomas O'Malley (full name: Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley) – A feral cat who befriends Duchess
and her kittens, becoming a father figure to the kittens and falling in love with Duchess.
 Gary Dubin as Toulouse – the oldest kitten, who idolizes all alley-cats and especially Thomas. He is also a talented painter, and is
loosely based on French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
 Liz English as Marie – middle kitten; often imperious or snobbish to her brothers, but her mother's especial companion. Something of
a singer.
 Dean Clark as Berlioz – the youngest kitten. He is somewhat timid and shy, named after the French composer Hector Berlioz. This
Berlioz is a talented pianist.
 Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar Balthazar – Madame Adelaide's butler who tries to get rid of the cats in order to inherit her fortune.
 Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat – Thomas's best friend and leader of a gang of jazz-playing alley cats. Scat Cat plays the trumpet.

7. CAST
 Paul Winchell as Shun Gon – a Chinese cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays the piano and drums made out of pots.
 Lord Tim Hudson as Hit Cat – an English cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays acoustic guitar.
 Vito Scotti as Peppo – an Italian cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays the accordion.
 Thurl Ravenscroft as Billy Boss – a Russian cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays the double bass.
 Sterling Holloway as Roquefort – A house mouse and also a friend of the cats, who assists in the expulsion of Edgar.
 Pat Buttram as Napoleon – a Bloodhound who attacks Edgar when he intrudes in the farm where Napoleon lives. Napoleon insists, whenever cohort Lafayette makes a
suggestion, that he is in command, then adopts Lafayette's suggestion as his own.
 George Lindsey as Lafayette – a Basset Hound and Napoleon's companion. He sometimes proves smarter than Napoleon, but is also more timid.
 Hermione Baddeley as Madame Adelaide Bonfamille – a former opera singer and owner of Duchess and her kittens.
 Charles Lane as Georges Hautecourt – Madame Bonfamille's lawyer: an eccentric, lively old man
 Nancy Kulp as Frou-Frou – Roquefort's horse companion, who subdues Edgar. Ruth Buzzi provided her singing voice.
 Monica Evans as Abigail Gabble – a goose who befriends the cats.
 Carole Shelley as Amelia Gabble – Abigail's twin sister.
 Bill Thompson as Uncle Waldo – the drunken gander uncle of Abigail and Amelia.
 Peter Renaday as French Milkman/Le Petit Cafe Cook/Truck Movers (uncredited)

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