Merrie Melodies: The CooCoo Nut Grove
(USA, 1936)
 

Introduction
The Coo-Coo Nut Grove is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Friz Freleng supervisted (directed) the cartoon. Robert McKimson and Sandy Walker did animation, using a musical score by Carl Stalling.

The CooCoo Nut Grove parodies popular celebrity nightclub 'The Coconut Grove' and some of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1930s.

Directed by: Friz Freleng	Produced by: Warner Bros
Production company: Warner Bros	Distributed by: Warner Bros
Release date: November 28, 1936	Running time:
Country:  United States	Language: English

The plot
A night at the CocoCoo Nut Grove nightclub. Ben Birdie (Ben Bernie) leads the house band. In real life, he had a continuous feud with Walter Winchel. A caricature of the great torch singer Helen Morgan is shown singing. The main joke of this story is the crowd being driven to uncontrollable crying by Morgan’s song.

Then, everyone looks towards a spotlight for the next bit of entertainment. The performer on stage is elderly dancer Edna May Oliver, who was known for her vaudeville performances.

 
GG, John Barrymore, and Gable

In a nice touch, toon John Barrymore is seated next to a toon of his Grand Hotel co-star Greta Garbo! Clark Gable, another Garbo co-star, sits at another table nearby. As usual in these cartoons, Gable’s ear size is wildly exaggerated.

Garbo looking ‘not amused’

Other Celebrities caricatured are:

  1.  Walter Winchell
  2.  Hugh Herbert
  3.  W.C. Fields
  4.  Katharine Hepburn
  5.  Ned Sparks
  6.  Johnny Weissmuller
  7.  Lupe Velez
  8.  John Barrymore
  9.  Harpo Marx
10.  George Arliss
11.  Mae West
12.  Stan Laurel
13.  Oliver Hardy
14.  Clark Gable
15.  Edna May Oliver
16.  Gary Cooper
17.  The Dionne Quintuplets
18.  Groucho Marx
19.  Helen Morgan
20.  Wallace Beery
21.  Edward G. Robinson
22.  George Raft.

The Coo-Coo Nut Grove is presented on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD and as an extra on the DVD of The Petrified Forest.
  

Source: IMDB and Wikipedia