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Hollywood Steps Out
1941 short Merrie Melodies cartoon by Warner Bros., directed by Tex Avery.
The cartoon features caricatures of Hollywood celebrities from the 1930s and early 1940s
including Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Greta Garbo and Groucho Marx.
- When announced for the bubble dance Sally Rand is called “Strand” by Crosby,
- presumably to avoid infringement. Rand refused permission to copy her dance act.
- The original release had an extended ending where Clark Gable kisses the man anyways, this was cut out of the reissue print because Clark was worried it would hurt his career, the result of cutting the ending was an abrupt black-out fade.
