Tags: Cartoon, Hollywood Cartoon.
The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (released November 28 1936) is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies short animated film set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The cartoon was supervised (directed) by Friz Freleng with animation by Robert McKimson and Sandy Walker and musical score by Carl Stalling.Master of ceremonies Ben Birdie (bandleader Ben Bernie) is accosted in the opening scene by Walter Windpipe (Walter Winchell).