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Duchess is the main character from the 1970 Disney film called The Aristocats.  She is a female Persian cat and the mother of Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz, along with the love interest and later wife of Thomas O'Malley.

Background[]

Personality[]

Duchess is very elegant, beautiful, and ladylike, being the pet to an aristocrat. She is very devoted to her owner, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille. She is kind and friendly to everyone. She is both caring and protective toward her children and also tries to encourage them to develop into proper members of French society. She also is a connoisseur of music and presumably teaches her kittens to sing and play the piano.

Duchess also is shown to be slightly pacifistic, as she scolds her kittens for "play-fighting". She is sweet and compassionate and is willing and able to make friends with anyone, no matter their background. She also seems to show concern for others, as is evidenced when she calls out to Thomas O'Malley as he floats down the river after he throws Marie to safety.

Physical appearance[]

Duchess is a long-haired purebred white Turkish Angora cat with blue eyes later described as shining like sapphires. She wears a gold, jeweled collar studded with diamonds.

Appearances[]

The Aristocats[]

Duchess and her three kittens Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live in a large mansion in 1910 Paris with their owner Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, a retired opera singer. At the beginning of the film, the family is returning from a carriage ride. Back home, Duchess oversees Toulouse's painting lesson and Marie and Berlioz's music lesson. Later, Madame Bonfamille meets with her lawyer and dear friend, Georges Hautecourt. After kissing Duchess's tail (which the lawyer believes to be Madame Bonfamille's hand), they settle down to business. Madame reveals that, after her death, she intends to leave her vast fortune to Duchess and her kittens. At the end of their lifespan, Madame's butler, Edgar would inherit. Edgar overhears, and plots to remove the cats from the inheritance, as he believes he would die before getting to inherit.

That night, Duchess and the kittens are drugged using milk mixed with sleeping pills. Edgar catnaps Duchess and her kittens and leaves them in the French countryside so that Madame Adelaide would think the cats had run away so that she could give the entire fortune to himself. After Edgar flees back to Paris following a scuffle with two feral dogs, Duchess and her kittens awake to very unfamiliar surroundings, and endure a frightening and rainy night together in the basket they were transported in. The next morning, Duchess meets Thomas O'Malley, an alley cat, who offers to guide them back to Paris. They have difficulties returning to the city, briefly hitchhiking on the back of a milk cart before being chased off by the driver. Marie subsequently falls into a river and is saved by Thomas. They then meet a pair of English geese, Abigail and Amelia Gabble, who are traveling for Paris. The group heads off, marching like geese until they reach Paris and come across the girls' drunken Uncle Waldo. Abigail and Amelia then depart to take Waldo home.

Traveling across the rooftops of the city, the cats meet Scat Cat and his band, close friends to O'Malley, who perform the song "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat". After the band has departed and the kittens lie in bed, O'Malley and Duchess spend the evening on a nearby rooftop and talk, while the kittens listen at a windowsill. O'Malley offers to have Duchess stay and be with him, but she sadly turns him down, largely out of loyalty to Madame Adelaide.

The next morning, Duchess and the kittens make it back to the mansion, whereupon O'Malley departs sadly. Edgar sees Duchess and kittens coming and captures them, placing them in a sack hidden in an oven. Duchess tells Roquefort to pursue O'Malley and get help. He does so, whereupon O'Malley races back to the mansion, ordering Roquefort to find Scat Cat and his gang. Edgar places the cats in a trunk which he plans to send to Timbuktu, Africa. O'Malley, Scat Cat and his gang of Alley Cats, and Frou Frou all fight Edgar, while Roquefort frees Duchess and the kittens. In the end, Edgar is tipped into the trunk, locked inside, and sent to Timbuktu himself. Madame Adelaide's will is rewritten to exclude Edgar and include O'Malley and any future kittens he and Duchess have. Madame also starts a charity foundation providing a home for all of Paris's stray cats. The grand opening thereof, to which most of the major characters come, features Scat Cat's band, who perform a reprise of "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat".

House of Mouse[]

Duchess made a few cameo appearances in the animated series. Her only speaking role was in "Ladies' Night" where Daisy Duck announced a phone call for Duchess, having many Disney Princesses believing she's referring to them. Duchess then arrives and states, "Darlings, she said, 'Duchess,' not 'princess,'" and picks up the phone. This was also the only time in which a character that was previously voiced by Eva Gabor has dialogue.

Animation Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Birds Duchess Played as Taun We[]

Avatar: The Last Airbending Animal She played as Haru's Mother[]

Bathound & Fox She played as Gossip Gerty[]

Supertiger: The Last Son Of Krypton She played as Lois Lane[]

The Princess and The Cat Duchess Played as Frog Tiana[]

Beauty and the Pooh Duchess Played as Belle[]

Princezan, Tuliozan, Tuliozan II, and Skyzan Duchess played as Kala[]

She is a gorilla

The Little Mer-Cat (Stephen Druschke's Version) and The Little Duchess Duchess played as Ariel[]

Tangled (Nikkdisneylover8390's Animal Style) Duchess played as Rapunzel[]

We're Back!: A Feline's Story Duchess played as Elsa[]

Oliver and Berlioz Duchess played as Nora Frensky[]

Female Cats, Inc. Duchess played Sulley[]

Duchzan Duchess played as Adult Tarzan[]

Duchcules Duchess played as Hercules[]

Star Wars (PrincessPeach2008 style) Duchess played as Obi-Wan Kenobi[]

The Bunny Queen, and The Lola King Duchess played as Pumbaa[]

The Duchess King, The Alley Cat Queen, and The Female Cat Queen and Duchess played as Adult Simba[]

The Alley Cat King, and The Kitten King (requested by Bambi's Ohanna) Duchess played as Adult Nala[]

Duchhontas Duchess played as Pocahontas[]

Piglet (aka Dumbo) Duchess played as Elephant Giddy[]

Sawyerlan Duchess played as Fa Li[]

The Pagemaster (SuperDisneyFan15 Animal Style) Duchess played as Claire Tyler[]

Danny and Bagheera Duchess played as Madeline Johnston[]

She is Jason's mother and Gunther's stepmother

The Cat King Duchess played as Sarabi[]

Fievel Hood Duchess played as Mother Rabbit[]

Thomas O'Malley of the Jungle Duchess played as Ursula[]

Coppernocchio Duchess played as Jiminy Cricket[]

The Little Mer-Dog Duchess played as Ursula as Vanessa[]

Dannyarzan played as Tarzan's mother[]

Avatar The Last Airbender NuclearZeon Animal Style played as Kya[]

Sawyerstasia played as Marie[]

Marlenlina played as Thumbelina's Mother[]

Baby einstein amy rose played as Pavlov Puppet[]

Sawyer in Wonderland played as Alice's Sister[]

Danny and Simba (aka: Crash & Bernstein) played as Cheerleader Crash[]

Total Drama Revenge of the Island (Animal Style) played as Dakota[]

She is a teen movie star

Frozen (Disney and Sanrio's Animal Style) she played as Elsa[]

She is a snow queen

The Land Before Time (Disney and Sanrio's Animal Style) she played as Littlefoot's Grandmother[]

She is a longneck

Beauty and the Llama, Beauty and the Llama 2: The Enchanted Christmas and Beauty and the Llama 3: Duchess' Magical World Duchess played as Belle[]

The O'Malley of Notre Dame 2 Duchess played as Madellaine[]

Brave (nikkdisneylover8390's style) and Brave (AnimatedFan195 Human Style) Duchess played as Bear Elinor[]

Gidget’s Clues (Animation Movie Films and TV Shows Style)[]

She is a teacher

RRR (Littlechild Studios Style) Duchess played as Loki[]

Sailor Duchess Played as Sailor Moon[]

she is the leader sailor scout

Sailor Perdita Played as[]

She is the 2nd Sailor Scout

Sailor Baby Bob Played as[]

She is the Third Sailor Scout

Sailor Moon Spoof for 155Movies she Played as[]

She is the ????

Sailor Andie she Played as[]

She is the Five Sailor Scout

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Portrayals[]

  • The Aristocats (TomandCleocatra Style) - Duchess is played by Cleocatra
  • The Aristomice (Thomas O'Malley's Style) - Duchess is played by Mrs. Brisby
  • The AristoHumans (Bruce Hogan Style) - Duchess is played by Princess Jasmine

Relatives[]

  • Boyfriend - Thomas O'Malley
  • Father - Baba Miao
  • Mother - Mama Miao
  • Sisters - Sawyer, Sagwa, Gwendolyn and Sheegwa
  • Brother - Dongwa
  • Children - Marie, Toulouse and Berlioz
  • Grandfather - Yeh Yeh Miao
  • Grandmother - Nai Nai Miao

Gallery[]

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