Lady and the Tramp his story work, an issue that animation director Eric Goldberg hoped to rectify in the "Lady and the Tramp" Platinum Edition's behind-the-scenes vignette that explained Grant's role. Singer Peggy Lee not only voiced four characters but co-wrote six songs for the film. As they had done with deer on "Bambi", the animators studied many dogs of different breeds to capture the movement and personality of dogs. Although the spaghetti eating sequence is probably now the best known scene from the film, Walt Disney was prepared to cut it, thinking that it would not be romantic and that dogs eating spaghetti
Lady and the Tramp illustrator in 1953. Claude Coats was then appointed as the key background artist. Coats made models of the interiors of Jim Dear and Darling's house, and shot photos and film at a low perspective as reference to maintain a dog's view. Eyvind Earle (who later became the art director of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty") did almost 50 miniature concept sketches for the Bella Notte sequence and was a key contributor to the film. Originally, "Lady and the Tramp" was planned to be filmed in a regular full frame aspect ratio. However, due to the growing interest of widescreen film among movie-goers,