Who's That Guy? - "Hollywood Steps Out"
Cartoons from the 30s and 40s often contain caricatures of celebrities of those times. While some of the caricatured stars are easily recognizable still today, other may look rather obscure.
The series of posts that I start today will help you identify all the caricatured people from various cartoons.
The first cartoon will be Tex Avery's "Hollywood Steps Out", so let's begin!
The series of posts that I start today will help you identify all the caricatured people from various cartoons.
The first cartoon will be Tex Avery's "Hollywood Steps Out", so let's begin!
 Cary Grant
 Cary Grant 
 
 Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan
 Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan
 
 Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger
 Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger 
 
 Johnny Weissmuller
 Johnny Weissmuller 
 
 James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft
 James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft 
 
 Greta Garbo and Harpo Marx
 Greta Garbo and Harpo Marx 
 
 Bing Crosby
 Bing Crosby 
 
 Leopold Stokowski
 Leopold Stokowski 
 
 James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour
 James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour 
 
 Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie
 Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie 
 
 The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard)
 The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard) 
 
 Oliver Hardy
 Oliver Hardy 
 
 The man is Cesar Romero. I don't know who the girl is.
 The man is Cesar Romero. I don't know who the girl is. 
 
 Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
 Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland 
 
 Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney
 Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney 
 
 Sally Rand
 Sally Rand 
 
 Kay Kyser
 Kay Kyser 
 
 Standing: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
 Standing: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
Sitting: Wallace Beery and C. Aubrey Smith 
 
 Peter Lorre
 Peter Lorre 
 
 Henry Fonda
 Henry Fonda 
 
 John Edgar Hoover
 John Edgar Hoover 
 
 Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher and Buster Keaton
 Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher and Buster Keaton 
 
 Mischa Auer and Ned Sparks
 Mischa Auer and Ned Sparks 
 
 Jerry Colonna
 Jerry Colonna 
 
 Groucho Marx and Clark Gable
 Groucho Marx and Clark Gable
Yours truly,
mmm...donuts (the other guy...)

 
  
  

19 Comments:
Glad that someone makes the blog being alive!
I will be too busy for such posts...I'm happy you liked my idea, I hope you will soon post about other cartoons like this one....
8:27 pm
I like how they but a reference to Leon in that cartoon with the Loonry Tunes theme plays a bit.
9:27 pm
Ah! Fantastic stuff! Really enjoyed seeing these frames. I remember seeing this toon when I was a kid and not knowing who anyone was but still laughing!
Celebrities were so much classier back in the day.
10:56 am
I can help you id one more person - Cesar Romero is dancing with Rita Hayworth.
12:15 am
The girl and the cloakroom, as well as the girl dancing with Cesar Romera, is Rita Hayworth.
4:40 pm
Yes, Rita Hayworth is dancing with Cesar. She is also in the cloakroom.
4:43 pm
At 1:07, just before Cary Grant starts speaking -- you see Adolphe Menjou at a table with a woman in a yellow dress. I can't place her, though.
12:57 am
The girl in the cloakroom is a completely different person from the one dancing with Cesar. The one dancing with Cesar is definitely Rita Hayworth but the one in the cloak room is not her.
8:54 pm
I believe the woman with Adolphe Menjou is Norma Shearer. And I believe the i.d. of Douglas Fairbanks is incorrect. I believe that to be Ronald Colman.
12:27 am
anyone know the name of the conga track?
8:24 am
Paulette Goddard is the hat check girl working the cloak room
8:23 pm
Greta Garbo is the cigarette girl.
6:56 pm
Both Bogart and Fonda's ancestry came from the Netherlands. It has been before Netherlands broke away from Spain!
9:24 pm
Cesar Romero danced with Rita Hayworth!
9:28 pm
With Cesar Romero, it's Rita Hayworth...
Friendly!
8:28 pm
Mickey Rooney, the son of the British subject, is the very last surviving actor as of 2014 in this cartoon.
6:15 pm
If Oliver Hardy was there, where was Stan Laurel
3:44 am
Cesar Romero is dancing with Ginger Rogers,not Rita ! Look at the hair and the face.
6:15 am
Can we get a year when this was relesed?
3:59 pm
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