She was one of his on again/off-again, admiring girlfriends with whom Tony kept a platonic relationship.It was based on Austrian writer Felix Salten""s 1923 storybookBambi, A Life in the Woods.[Note: Salten was a pen-name for Siegmund Salzmann.] Nazi Germany banned the novel in 1936, accusing it of being an allegory of Jewish persecution.The studio""s fifth animated classic, with a running ime of only 69 minutes, was released after five years of development, and was the last Disney feature to emerge mostly unscathed from the problems of the previous year""s studio strike, or the start of WWII.Mrs.Vale: Are we getting into botany, doctor? Are we flowers?Aunt Charlotte""s bitchy, fashionable niece June Vale (Bonita Granville) arrives - Lisa""s daughter.Hannibal Lecktor (now spelled Lecter) and Edward Norton as Will Graham.With a production budget of approximately $15 million, and box-office gross receipts of $8.6 million (domestic).The film was a box-office flop, and therefore wasn""t sequeled.This was the first film to introduce the serial killer character named Hannibal.When the film was re-released on video following the success ofThe Silence of the Lambs (1991),it was erroneously retitledRed Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter- both because of the different spelling of Hannibal""s last name, and because the word ""pursuit"" seemed inappropriate -- Lecktor was jailed, while the "Tooth Fairy" was being pursued.