Cartoon Verzions of Classic Hollywood Stars

Bing Crosby will be the MC here at the Ritzy Hollywood Nightclub.




The joke about the cost of dinner at the swanky Ciro's in 1941 seems spot on for dining-out in 2012.


Warner Brothers Cartoon Department big shots: assistant producer Henry Binder and producer Leon Schlesinger are the only Schlesinger employees who can afford to dine at Ciro's.

Johnny Weissmuller, a.k.a the original sound movie Tarzan, checking his tuxedo jacket.

Conductor Leopold Stokowski (here being spoofed because of his appearance in Walt Disney's Fantasia from 1940) kicks off the Ciro's band.

Even in cartoon form Cary Grant is always the picture of elegance; with the mysterious Greta Garbo as a measly cigarette girl.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland from MGM's popular Andy Hardy series.

Warner Brothers tough guys: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft.

James Stewart nervous over the amorous advances of "The Sarong Girl", Dorothy Lamour.

Sophisticated Nitwits: The Three Stooges -- Curly, Larry and Moe.

20th Century Fox contract players: the dashing Tyrone Power dances with figure-skating movie star, Sonja Henie.

The featured act, burlesque dancer Sally Rand - here as Sally Strand - performs her famous bubble dance, much to the overheated pleasure of the male stars in the nightclub.

1940's Band leader Kay Kyser - caricatured as "The Ol' Perfessor" from his NBC radio show, Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge - takes an academic interest in Sally's bubble dance.

Standing (from l. to r.): William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn. Seated (l. to r.): Wallace Beery, C. Aubrey Smith.

Creepy Peter Lorre's reaction to Sally's dance: "I haven't seen such a beautiful bubble since I was a child".

Google-eyed comedian Jerry Colonna makes sure he gets a good view..

Great "Stone-Faces" (l. to r.): Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher and Buster Keaton.

Groucho Marx in drag and Clark Gable puckering up. Apparently Gable really doesn't give a damn.