The CooCoo Nut Grove

The CooCoo Nut Grove is a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.
==Summary==
A night at Hollywood's fab-u-lous CooCoo Nut Grove restaurant. You never know who you will see, or be seen by.
==Plot==
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.
==Trivia==
"The CooCoo Nut Grove" is based on the Coconut Grove, a real night club popular with Hollywood's elite in the 1930's abd 40's. Six years to the day of this cartoon released, Cocoanut Grove was the place of the deadliest nightclub fire in this history of the United States of America. One of the people that are famous that perished in the flames is Charles Frederick Gebhart, best known as Buck Jones.
Features caricatures of Ben Bernie ("Ben Birdie"), W.C. Fields ("W.C. Squeals"), Katharine Hepburn ("Katharine Heartburn"), Stan Laurel ("Monkey Laurel"), Oliver Hardy ("Pig Hardy"), Mae West (as a lovebird), Walter Winchell ("Walter Windpipe"), George Arliss, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, the Dionne Quintuplets, Marie Dressler, Clark Gable, Hugh Herbert, Helen Morgan, Edna Mae Oliver, George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, and Groucho and Harpo Marx.
This cartoon is also included as an extra on the DVD of "The Petrified Forest" (1936).
Category:Cartoons
Category:Merrie Melodies Cartoons
Category:Ben Birdie Cartoons
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:1936 cartoons
Category:Leon Schlesinger Productions Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons animated by Sandy Walker
Category:Cartoons animated by Robert McKimson
Category:Cartoons animated by Ben Clopton
Category:Cartoons animated by Rod Scribner
Category:Cartoons with voices by Berneice Hansell
Category:Cartoons with voices by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons with voices by Danny Webb
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Zack Schwartz
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger