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The AristoCats (1970) More at IMDbPro »

• The character of Scat Cat was designed to be voiced by Louis Armstrong. The character's look was modeled after Armstrong - the way he played his trumpet, his roly-poly physique, right down to the prominent gap between his teeth. However, at the last moment, for unknown reasons, Armstong quit the film without recording a single line. His replacement, Scatman Crothers, was directed to "Pretend you're Satchmo."
  
  
• The Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman), whose father wrote the big Chevaliar hit "Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight", talked Maurice Chevalier out of retirement to sing the title song.
  
  
• The last animated feature to be approved by Walt Disney and the studio's first animated feature to be completed after his death.
  
  
• Eva Gabor and Pat Buttram were both starring together in the TV series "Green Acres" (1965) while recording voices for this animated film.
  
  
• The English geese Amelia and Abigail Gabble are played by Carole Shelley and Monica Evans. They played another set of bird-themed English sisters - the Pigeon sisters - in The Odd Couple (1968).
  
  
• This was originally intended as a two-part, live-action installment of the TV series "Disneyland" (1954).
  
  
• Thomas O'Malley's full name is Abraham De Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley.
  
  
• Two vehicles from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) reappear in the film: the Bad'uns Truck and the Moving Van.
  
  
• The character of Uncle Waldo, the English goose, was the last role of voice actor Bill Thompson, who died from a heart attack at age 58, shortly after the film was released.
  
  
• Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Russian Cat, was for many years the voice of Kellogg's Tony the Tiger.
  
  

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