The 1950 Casper cartoon "Once Upon a Rhyme" shows Casper reading a book of Mother Goose tales. From the cover, Mother Goose invites the friendly ghost to enter her domain. He sees the Three Blind Mice (who of course don't see him) but his spectral appearance frightens both The Old Woman Who Lives in the Shoe and Miss Muffet's spider (Miss Muffet having already been scared off her tuffet by said arachnid.) Red Riding Hood isn't put off by Casper's ghostliness, so they become friends, after which Casper's scare potential saves Red from the hungry Wolf.
It's a decent little cartoon, but it's more than a little odd that the pre-adolescent Red looks to be wearing lipstick.
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