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The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated musical comedy film In 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Berlioz, Marie, and Toulouse, live in Paris with retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, and her English butler, Edgar. The cats are pampered pets that live a luxurious lifestyle and are very cultured in art and music, like their owner. While preparing her will with elderly lawyer Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares that her vast fortune will be first left to her cats, then revert to Edgar once they all die. Edgar overhears this through a speaking tube and, after erroneously calculating that he will die before he can claim his inheritance, plots to eliminate the cats. He sedates them by putting sleeping pills in a dish of cream, then drives them on his motorcycle out to the countryside in a basket. There, he is ambushed by two hounds named Napoleon and Lafayette, losing his hat, sidecar, umbrella, shoes, and the basket before escaping. The cats are left stranded in Phil Harris as J. 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 and a step-father to the kittens and falling in love with Duchess. For cultural reasons, the Italian dubbing of the film changes him to Romeo, er mejo der Colosseo ("Romeo, the best [cat] of the Colosseum" in Romanesco dialect), an Italian cat from Rome speaking with a strong Roman accent; the reason for this change is that alley cats were well known for frequenting the Colosseum at the time. Eva Gabor as Duchess – Madame Adelaide's refined and elegant Turkish Angora cat[citation needed] and mother of the three kittens, who believes she is forced to choose between loyalty to Madame and her own attachment to Thomas O'Malley at the end of the film. Robie Lester provided the singing voice for Duchess. Gary Dubin as Toulouse – The oldest kitten, who idolizes all alley cats, especially O'Malley. He wants to appear tough, but is actually fairly laidback and easygoing. He is also a talented painter, loosely based on French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Liz English as Marie – The middle kitten and the only girl. She is a dreamer. She comes off as spoiled, often imperious, sassy or snobbish towards her brothers, but does her best to be a "lady" like her mother. She is an accomplished singer. She is named after the queen of France Marie Antoinette. Dean Clark as Berlioz – The youngest kitten. He may seem quiet, but is quite mischievous. He is sweet-natured, but easily annoyed and hard to impress, often the first to make a snide remark. He is a talented pianist, named after the French composer Hector Berlioz.[7] Sterling Holloway as Roquefort – A house mouse and a friend of the cats who assists in the expulsion of Edgar. Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat – O'Malley's best friend and leader of a gang of jazz-playing alley cats. Scat Cat plays the trumpet. Paul Winchell as Shun Gon – A Chinese cat in Scat Cat'