As TIME’s Richard Corliss writes in his All-TIME 25 Animated Films entry on Lady and the Tramp, “It’s said that when he first watched a rough cut of his studio’s next feature cartoon, Walt Disney absolutely disapproved of one scene: when the Cocker Spaniel Lady and the roguish mutt Tramp dig into a plate of spaghetti on a romantic night and catch ends of the same strand, their faces coming closer to a kiss as they nibble. This, of course, is the moment — played to the strains of Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke’s Neapolitan ballad “Bella Notte” — that immediately entered the DNA of millions of moviegoers and is still cherished more than a half-century later.”
Of all the anthropomorphic animals Disney has included in its animated films since the 1930s, Lady and the Tramp are surely two of its most famous.
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