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The CooCoo Nut Grove

Directed By:		I. Freleng
Produced By:		Leon Schlesinger
Released:		November 28, 1936
Series:		Merrie Melodies
Story:		Sid Marcus (uncredited)
Animation:		Bob McKimson Sandy Walker Ben Clopton (uncredited) Rod Scribner (uncredited)
Layouts:		Zack Schwartz
Backgrounds:
Film Editor:		Treg Brown (uncredited)
Voiced By:		Tedd Pierce Berneice Hansell Danny Webb Verna Deane The Rhythmettes Wini Shaw Peter Lind Hayes
Music:		Carl W. Stalling
Starring:		Ben Birdie Dionne Quintuplets W.C. Fields Helen Morgan Mouse
Preceded By:		Little Beau Porky
Succeeded By:		The Village Smithy

1936-11-29 The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (MM)

The_Coo-Coo_Nut_Grove_(A.A.P._Print) — The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (A.A.P. Print)

The CooCoo Nut Grove is a 1936 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title

The title is a play on a nightclub in Boston called the Cocoanut Grove which later caught fire on November 28, 1942.

Plot

A night at Hollywood's fab-u-lous CooCoo Nut Grove restaurant. You never know who you will see, or be seen by. 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), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and 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 only two years old at the time) and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.

Availability

(1992) VHS - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 9, Hooray for Hollywood!
(2005) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two
(2005) DVD - The Petrified Forest (USA 1995 Turner print)
(2013) Blu-ray - The Petrified Forest (USA 1995 Turner print)

Notes

This cartoon was followed by "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos" (1937) and "Have You Got Any Castles?" (1938), both parodying Hollywood personalities.
This is the first short that was edited by Treg Brown himself, he would continue making the sound effects for Warner Bros. Cartoons until his retirement in 1964.

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+|name = The CooCoo Nut Grove
+|image = CooCoo_Nut-Grove-HD.png
+|Director = [[Friz Freleng|I. Freleng]]
+|producer = [[Leon Schlesinger]]
+|airdate = November 28, 1936
+|series = [[Merrie Melodies]]
+|Voice = [[Tedd Pierce]]<br>[[Berneice Hansell]]<br>[[Danny Webb]]<br>[[Verna Deane]]<br>[[The Rhythmettes]]<br>[[Wini Shaw]]<br>[[Peter Lind Hayes]]
+|Starring = [[Ben Birdie]]<br>Dionne Quintuplets<br>W.C. Fields<br>Helen Morgan<br>Mouse
+|previous = [[Little Beau Porky]]
+|next = [[The Village Smithy]]
+|Writer = [[Sid Marcus]] (uncredited)
+|Animators = [[Robert McKimson|Bob McKimson]]<br>[[Sandy Walker]]<br>Ben Clopton (uncredited)<br>[[Rod Scribner]] (uncredited)
+|Layout-artist = [[Zack Schwartz]]
+|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited)
+|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling]]
+|Background-artist =
+|Video = [[File:1936-11-29 The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (MM)|thumb|center|280px]]
+[[File:The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (A.A.P. Print)|thumb|center|280px]]
+}}
+'''The CooCoo Nut Grove''' is a [[1936]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]].
+== Title ==
-'''''The Coo-Coo Nut Grove''''' (released November 28, 1936) is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The cartoon was supervised (directed) by Friz Freleng, with animation by Robert McKimson and Sandy Walker and musical score by Carl Stalling.
+* The title is a play on a nightclub in Boston called the Cocoanut Grove which later caught fire on November 28, 1942.
-==Plot==
-A night at Hollywood's ''fab-u-lous'' CooCoo Nut Grove restaurant. You never know who you will see, or be seen by. 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), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and 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 only two years old at the time) and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.
+== Plot ==
-The title is sometimes misspelled 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.
+A night at Hollywood's ''fab-u-lous'' CooCoo Nut Grove restaurant. You never know who you will see, or be seen by. 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), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, [[Hugh Herbert]], W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and 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 only two years old at the time) and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.
+== Availability ==
+* (1992) VHS - ''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes]]'' Volume 9, Hooray for Hollywood!
+* (2005) DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3]]'', Disc Two
+* (2005) DVD - ''The Petrified Forest'' (USA 1995 Turner print)
+* (2013) Blu-ray - ''The Petrified Forest'' (USA 1995 Turner print)
+== Notes ==
+* This cartoon was followed by "[[The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos]]" (1937) and "[[Have You Got Any Castles?]]" (1938), both parodying Hollywood personalities.
+* This is the first short that was edited by [[Treg Brown]] himself, he would continue making the sound effects for [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]] until his retirement in 1964.
+== Gallery ==
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+[[Category:Cartoons animated by Sandy Walker]]
+[[Category:Cartoons animated by Ben Clopton]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Tedd Pierce]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Berneice Hansell]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Danny Webb]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown]]
+[[Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn]]
+[[Category:Caricatures of real people]]
+[[Category:Caricature of Hugh Herbert]]
+[[Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger]]
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