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The Coo-Coo Nut Grove is a Merrie Melodies short animated film set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, created by Friz Freleng in 1936. Master of ceremonies Ben Birdie (Bandleader Ben Bernie) is accosted in the opening scene by Walter Windpipe (columnist Walter Winchell.) Then an entire galaxy of Hollywood stars is featured, including Katharine Hepburn (as a horse named Miss Heartburn), Hugh Herbert, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, George Raft, and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with what used to be called a torch song.

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