Hollywood Canine Canteen is a 1946 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.
Plot[]
The canine pets of Hollywood stars meet and decide they need their own nightclub. Inside the nightclub are a series of vignettes featuring dog-styled caricatures of Hollywood celebrities.
Caricatures[]
There are many dog-styled caricatures of Hollywood personalities in this cartoon.
- Chairing the meeting is Edward G. Robinson.
- Speaking at the meeting is Jimmy Durante.
- Seated at the meeting are: Hugh Herbert; Eddie Cantor; Ed Wynn; Monty Woolley; ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and doll Charlie McCarthy; Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy;
- Welcoming the sailor and the soldier to the Canteen: Bing Crosby, also appearing later;
- On stage: Bob Hope and the mustachioed Jerry Colonna; Carmen Miranda, dancing with her signature fruit headdress; Babbit and Catstello (caricatures of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- At the snack bar: Penny Singleton (as Blondie Bumstead); Arthur Lake (as Dagwood, here called "Dogwood");
- Laurel and Hardy again, washing dishes;
- In the lounge with the wall portraits: Joan Leslie in red dress with red bow in hair; an unknown long-haired man stumbling;
- At the phone desk: an unknown soldier, wants to place call; an unknown woman seated at desk with New Jersey accent;
- The conductor is Leopold Stokowski as Leopold Bowowski. The musicians are likely anonymous, except for the tuba player, Joe Besser;
- Bing Crosby crooning while stuffing a pipe; Dorothy Lamour; Frank Sinatra;
- Bandleader Kay Kyser as Kaynine Kyser; poet and cornet player Merwyn Bogue (aka Ish Kabibble) as "Ish Kyoodle";
- dancing soldier and woman (unknown);
- woman in blue dress (unknown) consoling weeping soldier;
- dancing woman who wants to "cut a rug" (possibly Katherine Hepburn);
- trumpeter Harry James (as "Hairy James"); trombonist Tommy Dorsey as "Tommy Dorgy"; xylophonist Lionel Hampton as "Lionel Hambone and his Bonophone"; clarinetist Benny Goodman as "Boney Goodman"; Jimmy Durante again, playing the piano as "Schnauser Durante" (a play on Durante's nickname, "The Schnoz")
Availability[]
Notes[]
- The opening music for the title card is very similar to the title in "Hare Tonic".
- This cartoon is similar in concept to "Hollywood Steps Out" (1941), which was directed by Tex Avery five years prior, except that this time the celebrities are all caricatured as anthropomorphic dogs instead of people.
- This is the first Merrie Melodies short that Robert McKimson directed.
- This cartoon was shown in theatres with Devotion during its original release.
- Vitaphone release number: 1446[3]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19733271213libr/page/46/mode/1up
- ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media.
- ↑ Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. McFarland, page 288. ISBN 978-0786412792.