- The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
"The Coo-Coo Nut Grove" (released
November 28 , 1936) is aWarner Brothers Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of theAmbassador Hotel inLos Angeles . The cartoon was supervised (directed) byFriz Freleng , with animation byRobert McKimson and Sandy Walker and musical score byCarl Stalling .Master of ceremonies Ben Birdie (bandleader
Ben Bernie ) is accosted in the opening scene by Walter Windpipe (Walter Winchell ). The short then proceeds to showcase a large number of Hollywood stars in the form of caricatures, includingKatharine Hepburn (as a horse named Miss Heartburn),Jean Harlow ,Bette Davis ,Joe E. Brown ,Hugh Herbert ,W.C. Fields ,Clark Gable , Groucho andHarpo Marx ,Johnny Weissmuller ,Mae West , Lionel andJohn Barrymore ,Laurel and Hardy ,Edna May Oliver ,Edward G. Robinson ,Fred Astaire ,George Raft , andHelen Morgan , sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.The title is sometimes misspelled as "The Coo-Coo Nut Groove".
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