A year after Lon Chaney starred in the silent film The Phantom of the Opera, Disney animated villain Pete also became infatuated with his own angel of music and he, too, decided to kidnap her. Rather than a Paris opera house as in the horror film, Disney set his film in a Spanish café, with Margie Gay as the live-action, guitar-playing Alice in Alice’s Spanish Guitar, released on this day in 1926. Pete, who over the years had been known as Peg Leg Pete was called Putrid Pete in this film. When he brings Alice to his castle lair, it’s the swashbuckling gaucho Julius the cat to the rescue!