Hollywood Canine Canteen
Hollywood Canine Canteen is a 1946 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.[1] The short was released on April 20, 1946.[2]
| Hollywood Canine Canteen | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer (unc.) |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Sara Berner Bea Benaderet Richard Bickenbach Bob Lyons Paul Regan (all unc.) |
| Music by | Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling Orchestra: Milt Franklyn (unc.) |
| Edited by | Treg Brown (unc.) |
| Animation by | Cal Dalton Don Williams Richard Bickenbach |
| Layouts by | Bob Givens (unc.) |
| Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:44 |
| Language | English |
The cartoon features various caricatures of Hollywood film celebrities and famous jazz musicians of the day, all zoomorphized as dogs.
Plot
The canine pets of Hollywood stars meet and decide they need their own nightclub. The cartoon tours the nightclub and presents a series of vignettes featuring dog-styled caricatures of Hollywood celebrities.
Notes
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: Ed Wynn; Monty Woolley; ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and doll Charlie McCarthy; Laurel & Hardy
- Welcoming the sailor and the soldier to the Canteen: Bing Crosby (voiced by Richard Bickenbach[3]), also seen later; an unknown soldier and sailor)
- On stage: Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna; Carmen Miranda, dancing with her signature fruit headdress; Babbit and Catstello (caricatures of Abbott and Costello, from other cartoons such as The Mouse-Merized Cat; only here, they are dogs)
- 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: an unknown woman in red dress with red bow in hair; an unknown long-haired man stumbling
- At the phone desk: an unknown soldier, wanting to place a call; an unknown woman seated at desk with a New Jersey accent
- The conductor is Leopold Stokowski, parodied in other WB cartoons such as Hollywood Steps Out and Rhapsody Rabbit; the musicians are likely anonymous, except for the tuba player, Joe Besser (later in the Three Stooges)
- 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 Kapoodle"
- Dancing soldier and woman (unknown)
- Woman in blue dress (unknown) consoling weeping soldier
- Dancing woman who wants to "cut a rug" (possibly Katharine 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")
The opening music for the title card is very similar to the title in Hare Tonic.
Home media
- Hollywood Canine Canteen is available, uncensored and uncut, on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2.
- It is also available on The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes Volume 2 laserdisc.
References
- Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 166. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- "Dick Bickenbach". lambiek.net. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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