The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
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The Coo-Coo Nut Grove is a Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The cartoon was created by Friz Freleng in 1936. 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, including Katharine Hepburn (as a horse named Miss Heartburn), Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, George Raft, and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.
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