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The Merry Melodies Short ‘Hollywood Steps Out’ Featured All Of These Classic Stars

The professor is Kay Kyser, big band leader from the 1930s and 1940s, who turns and shouts his catchphrase, “Students!” to the following group behind him. His band toured restaurants and nightclubs with an act that combined a quiz with music and was known as the “Kollege of Musical Knowledge,” led by Kyser as “The Ol’ Perfessor.” His band had some of the most popular songs of the time.

Simultaneously giving a wolf whistle are well-known actors, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Ronald Colman, and Errol Flynn, with Wallace Beery and C. Aubrey Smith seated in front.

Peter Lorre says, “I haven’t seen such a beautiful bubble since I was a child” in a way that only he could.

Henry Fonda is led away by his mother who pulls him by the ear. Fonda was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 1940 film, The Grapes of Wrath.

J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI says, “Gee!” quite a few times. Good thing he’s not seated with the Oomph Girl.

Boris KarloffArthur Treacher, and Buster Keaton do not have the same level of enthusiasm as the other customers for the bubble girl, alluding to the grim, expressionless characters they were known to portray.

Mischa Auer is seated with them in a likewise manner, and when grumpy cigar chomping Ned Sparks asks if they are having a good time, they all respond with a sober, “Yes.
What old Bob Hope gag is portrayed in the next part of this cartoon? Click “Next” to find out.

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