The Coo Coo Nut Grove

Duration: 7

Year Published: 1936

Creator: Associated Artists Productions presents ; Vitaphone presents ; Leon Schlesinger Studios ; produced by Leon Schlesinger ; supervision, I. Freleng.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Freleng, Friz, 1905-1995, direction.; Schlesinger, Leon, 1884-1949, production.; Stalling, Carl W., music.; McKimson, Robert, 1910-1977, animation.; Walker, Sandy, animation.; Leon Schlesinger Studios.; Warner Bros.; Vitaphone Corp.; Associated Artists Productions.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; Music direction, Carl W. Stalling. Songs used: My old man, The little things you used to do, About a quarter to nine ; animation, Bob McKimson, Sandy Walker.; "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"--Wikipedia.org.; PFA 1604-01-14627. D0003; PFA 1604-01-14627. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2012/01 /06 Somewhat faded.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE