The Lady in Red

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"True, Friz Freleng's early cartoon "The Lady in Red" stereotypes Mexico a little bit, but it's got some cool scenes, as a bevy of cockroaches party in a café after hours. The title woman performs a sultry dance. But then a parrot sees the action and gets hungry. That's instinct, I guess. As this came out in the early days of Warner Bros. animation, there's none of the full scale wackiness that became their cornerstone throughout the '40s and '50s. As it was, I notice that a lot of their cartoons in 1935 and 1936 took their titles from songs: "I Hav..."