The CooCoo Nut Grove

The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)

A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.

Date of release
1936-11-28
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (25)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Friz Freleng

Casting

Interesting facts

The CooCoo Nut Grove is a 1936 American animated comedy short film directed by Isadore Freleng. The short was released on November 28, 1936. It is the 67th film in the Merrie Melodies series.

Production

Cartoonist T. Hee was hired for this short after Frank Tashlin saw his caricatures appearing in the San Francisco Examiner (particularly his caricatures of Greta Garbo and Clark Gable). Hee was then heavily in demand by the animation studios and was engaged by Walt Disney Productions, where he worked on the classic Mother Goose Goes Hollywood.

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