Friday, February 24, 2006

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!

Cary Grant


Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan


Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger



Johnny Weissmuller



James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft



Greta Garbo and Harpo Marx



Bing Crosby



Leopold Stokowski



James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour



Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie



The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard)



Oliver Hardy



The man is Cesar Romero. I don't know who the girl is.



Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland



Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney



Sally Rand



Kay Kyser



Standing: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
Sitting: Wallace Beery and C. Aubrey Smith



Peter Lorre



Henry Fonda



John Edgar Hoover



Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher and Buster Keaton



Mischa Auer and Ned Sparks



Jerry Colonna



Groucho Marx and Clark Gable

Yours truly,

mmm...donuts (the other guy...)

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