Madame Adelaide Bonfamille Background information Feature films The Aristocats Television programs Video games Park attractions Portrayed by Portrayed by Animators Voice Hermione Baddeley Phyllis Diller Performance model Designer Inspiration Honors and awards Character information Full name Other names Personality Kind, rich, friendly, honest, caring Appearance Slender, elderly, white hair, purple earring, pink and voilet-red dress Birthday Occupation Edgar's boss (formerly), Duchess and her children's mistress Affiliations Good Goal To get her cats back home safely Home Her mansion Relatives Pets Allies Her lawyer Georges Hautcourt, Roquefort the Mouse Minions Her cats Duchess, Marie, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Thomas O' Malley, her horse Frou Frou, her ex-butler Edgar Balthazar Enemies Edgar Balthazar Likes Her cats, music, dancing Dislikes Losing her cats Powers and abilities Wealth, Singing Weapons Fate Starts a new foundation. Quote "Marie my little one, you're going to be beautiful as your mother, isn't she, Duchess?"

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Madame Adelaide Bonfamille is one of the minor protagonists from Disney's 1970 feature film The Aristocats. She is a wealthy, elderly woman who is the owner of Duchess and her kittens. She is voiced by Hermione Baddeley who portrayed Ellen in the 1964 musical film Mary Poppins.

BackgroundEdit

Madame Bonfamille, often simply called Madame, is an elderly, wealthy woman, who apparently was a famous opera singer at one point. She is very kind, and generous. At the time of the film, however, she had no living relatives, thus she doted on her cats. Her other friends included her lawyer Georges Hautcourt and her butler Edgar Balthazar.

Madame has white hair, usually put up in a bun, and wears a violet and red dress.

Role in the filmEdit

At the beginning of the film, she is seen in her carriage, driven by Edgar, with her cats. Upon returning home, it is revealed that she is expecting her lawyer and long time friend, Georges to come to handle some business matters. After he arrives, she tells Georges that she wants to make out her will. She notes that she has no living relatives, only her cats and Edgar, which Georges interprets to mean that she is leaving her extensive fortune to Edgar. Madame corrects him, revealing her plan to leave the fortune to Duchess and the kittens. Edgar is to care for the cats until their death, when he will inherit the vast wealth himself. Unknown to Georges and Madame, Edgar has overheard her intentions through the pipes. Fearful that he will be dead before he can inherit, he kidnaps the cats and drops them off in the French countryside. Madame is noticably saddened and worried by the cats' sudden disappearance, but does not know that Edgar kidnapped them.

Much later, Madame thinks she has heard the kittens, and rushes to check the door, bringing Edgar with her. Unknown to her, Edgar has heard the kittens earlier, and had trapped them in an old oven, until he could get rid of them again, and Madame sorrowfully returns to her house. However the cats are rescued from Edgar by O'Malley and all return safely.

At the end of the film, it is revealed that Madame has adopted O'Malley, citing the need for a man around the house. While taking a portrait of the cats, she laments that Edgar left, ironically thinking that he wouldn't have left had he known about the will. Per her instructions, Edgar is written out of the will. Instead, Madame begins a foundation that opens up her home for the alley cats of Paris, which is revealed to already include Scat Cat and his gang of alley cats.

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