Lady and the Tramp is a 2019 American musical romance film directed by Charlie Bean and adapted by Andrew Bujalski and Kari Granlund. A live-action/ animated remake of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp, which was based on the 1945 Cosmopolitan short story, "Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog" by Ward Greene, it stars the voices of Tessa Thompson, Justin Theroux, Janelle Monáe, and Sam Elliott with the human characters portrayed by Thomas Mann, Kiersey Clemons, Yvette Nicole Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Adrian Martinez, and Ken Jeong. It is dedicated to storyboard artist Chris Reccardi, who died on May 2, 2019.