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The CooCoo Nut Grove is a 1936 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The cartoon was directed by Friz Freleng, with animation by Robert McKimson and Sandy Walker, caricature design by T. Hee, and musical score by Carl Stalling.[1] The short was released on November 28, 1936.[2]

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The CooCoo Nut Grove
Directed by	I. Freleng
Story by	Bob Clampett
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Bernice Hansen Tedd Pierce The Rhymettes Verna Deane Danny Webb Peter Lind Hayes Dave Barry
Edited by	Treg Brown
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Bob McKimson Sandy Walker Ben Clopton Rod Scribner T. Hee
Layouts by	Zack Schwartz
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	November 28, 1936 (1936-11-28)
Running time	6:43
Language	English

Plot

Master of ceremonies Ben Birdie (bandleader Ben Bernie, voiced by Tedd Pierce) is accosted in the opening scene by Walter Windpipe (Walter Winchell, voiced by Danny Webb). The short then proceeds to showcase many Hollywood stars in the form of Ralph Barton-esque caricatures, including Katharine Hepburn (as a horse named Miss Heartburn), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Ned Sparks (voiced by Dave Barry), W. C. Fields (voiced by Tedd Pierce), Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller (in character as Tarzan) and Lupe Vélez, Mae West (voiced by Verna Deane), Wallace Beery, John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, and George Raft. Musical entertainments are provided by Dame Edna May Oliver as "The Lady in Red", the Dionne quintuplets (who were in reality two years old at the time, all voiced by Bernice Hansen), and Helen Morgan (voiced by Verna Deane), sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song that causes most of the guests to cry (except Ben Birdie and a few others), flooding the Grove in the process. Whereas other cartoons have caricatured celebrities as either humans or animals, this short does both—half are seen as human, half as animals.

Production notes

• The title is sometimes mis-labeled as The Coo-Coo Nut Groove. This cartoon was followed by The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos (1937) and Have You Got Any Castles? (1938), both parodying Hollywood personalities.

Home media

• Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3.

References

External links

• The CooCoo Nut Grove at IMDb

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