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")
Gallery[]
Babbit and Catstello's cameos in Hollywood Canine Canteen