The Lady in Red (1935 film)

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The Lady in Red
Directed by I. Freleng
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
StarringThe Varsity Three
Bernard B. Brown
Count Cutelli
Jeanne Dunne
Edited by Treg Brown
Music byBernard Brown
Norman Spencer
Animation by Bob McKimson
Ben Clopton
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • September 7, 1935 (1935-09-07)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Lady in Red is a 1935 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng. [1] The short was released on September 7, 1935. [2]

Contents

The film score was composed by Bernard B. Brown and Norman Spencer. The two-strip Technicolor was credited on the reissue.

The cartoon follows the early custom of Warner Bros. cartoons in being built around (and thus pushing) a melody from the Warners catalog, in this case, a song called "The Lady in Red" from the 1935 Warner film In Caliente (also known as Viva Señorita). [3]

Plot

The film features the antics of a society of cockroaches in a Mexican café in the absence of its owner. The owner Manuel is reportedly "off to the bullfights".

The film opens with an instrumental of the title song, but interrupts the song with a solo performed by the gondolier cockroach hero. He sings the 1926 John Stepan Zamecnik-Harry D. Kerr composition, "Neapolitan Nights". The title song begins again and is interrupted with a solo by a cockroach parody of Rudy Vallee. He sings the Al Dubin-Harry Warren song, "Sweet Music" from the 1935 Warner Bros. film of the same name,

The scene shifts to a rendition of the title song by a cockroach chorus. They are performing as the background singers to a lady cockroach, who performs as dancer. Her "red velvet gown" consists of a scarlet meat frill. The rest of the film is devoted to the attempts of a parrot to make off with the cockroach heroine. His plans are foiled by the hero.

Home video release

This cartoon was included as an extra on the Blu-ray release of the film Joe's Apartment . [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 39. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ↑ In Caliente (1935)
  4. ↑ Gonzales, Dillon. "'Joe's Apartment' Blu-Ray Review – Jerry O'Connell Cockroach Comedy Is Given The Platinum Treatment". Geek Vibes Nation. Retrieved 2 February 2024.


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