Malibu Beach Party

Jack Bunny hosts a beach party at his beach home and spares no expense.

In the tradition of Hollywood parodies, this short spoofs the then popular radio sitcom The Jack Benny Show, with several Hollywood caricatures in attendance, designed by Ben Shenkman.

Jack Lescoulie, another contemporary radio personality, voices Jack Benny (as he often did for cartoons). He kind of sounded like him in real life and nailed the vocal nuances. Other regulars on the show are parodied and given clever similar sounding names, such as Rochester going by Winchester.

The only thing that's missing is a reference to Benny's mock feud with Fred Allen that had been going on on the radio for four years at that point. I find it surprising that it wasn't milked very much, if at all, by the Looney Tunes crew.

An excellent caricature cartoon and a forerunner to Tex Avery's HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT, which came out a few months later and also used Shenkman's designs.