Caricatures

Caricatures of celebrities have long appeared in the MGM cartoons. Among the stars that have been so immortalized are:

## Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

* The Lonesome Stranger - as a horse named Silver
* The Goose Goes South - as babies
* Happy-Go-Nutty
* Henpecked Hoboes - George's blackface voice

## Louis Armstrong

* The Old Mill Pond - as a frog
* Swing Wedding - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as a frog

## Charles Boyer

* Red Hot Riding Hood - the wolf does an impression of him when he talks to Red
* The Zoot Cat - Tom Cat impersonate him
* The Hick Chick - as a rooster named Charles
* Little 'Tinker

## Joe E. Brown

* Soda Squirt
* Art Gallery

## Cab Calloway

* The Old Mill Pond - as a frog
* Swing Wedding - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as a frog

## Cleopatra

* Good Little Monkeys
* Art Gallery

## Jerry Colonna

* Blitz Wolf - "Ehhhh, it's a possibility!"
* Who Killed Who? - "Ah yes, quite a bunch of us…"

## Lou Costello

* The Lonesome Stranger - "I'm a baaad boy"
* Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer - as one of the three news reporters
* The Early Bird Dood It! - as a worm

## Jimmy Durante

* Soda Squirt
* Bosko's Parlor Pranks - Bosko does an impression of him
* What's Buzzin' Buzzard? - The buzzard does an impression of him
* Jerky Turkey - as a turkey
* The Cat That Hated People - The cat's voice is based on his
* Love That Pup - Spike Bulldog's voice is based on his
* Surf-Bored Cat

## Stepin Fetchit

* The Old Mill Pond - as a frog
* Swing Wedding - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as a frog
* The Goose Goes South - as a cotton picker
* Mouse Cleaning - Tom Cat, in "blackface", talks like him
* Droopy's Good Deed

## Adolf Hitler

* Blitz Wolf - as Adolf Wolf (Colossal Stinker)
* The Lonesome Mouse
* War Dogs

## Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

* The Village Barber - Flip the Frog whimpers like Stan
* Movie Mad
* Soda Squirt
* Art Gallery

## The Marx Brothers

* Soda Squirt
* Stratos-Fear
* Art Gallery
* Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer - Groucho Marx appears as one of the three news reporters

## The Mills Brothers

* Toyland Broadcast
* The Old Mill Pond - as frogs
* Swing Wedding - as frogs
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as frogs
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as frogs
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as frogs

## Al Ritz

* Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer - as one of the three news reporters

## Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

* The Old Mill Pond - as a frog
* Swing Wedding - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as a frog

## Red Skelton

* The Early Bird Dood It! - Though no caricatures of Red Skelton's characters are seen or heard in this cartoon, the cartoon's title is partially a pun on Red Skelton's famous "I dood it" quote.
* Red Hot Riding Hood - The wolf's voice does an imitation of him
* Who Killed Who? - as Red Skeleton, the victim quotes "Let's not get nosy, bub!"
* One Ham's Family
* Wild and Woolfy - Slick Wolf quotes Sheriff Deadeye when he tells his horse to "whoa"
* The Hick Chick - His character Clem Kadiddlehopper as a rooster named Lem Kadoodlehopper and his girlfriend Daisy June as a hen named Daisy Goon

## Kate Smith

* Toyland Broadcast
* The Goose Goes South

## Fats Waller

* The Old Mill Pond - as a frog
* Swing Wedding - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as a frog

## Ethel Waters

* The Old Mill Pond - as a frog
* Swing Wedding - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals - as a frog
* Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad - as a frog

## Mae West

* Art Gallery
* Red Hot Riding Hood

## Paul Whiteman

* The Soup Song
* Toyland Broadcast