Lady and the Tramp domestic lifetime gross of $93.6 million, and a lifetime international gross of $187 million. The score for the film was composed and conducted by Oliver Wallace. Recording artist Peggy Lee wrote the songs with Sonny Burke and assisted with the score as well. In the film, she sings "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "He's a Tramp". She helped promote the film on the Disney TV series, explaining her work with the score and singing a few of the film's numbers. These appearances are available as part of the "Lady and the Tramp" Platinum Edition DVD set. On
Lady and the Tramp Lady. Disney enjoyed the sketches and commissioned Grant to start story development on a new animated feature titled "Lady". Through the late 1930s and early 1940s, Joe Grant and other artists worked on the story, taking a variety of approaches, but Disney was not pleased with any of them, primarily because he thought Lady was too sweet, and there was not enough action. Walt Disney read the short story written by Ward Greene, "Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog", in "Cosmopolitan" magazine, published in 1945. He thought that Grant's story would be improved if Lady fell in love with a cynical