Celebrities caricatured include: Edna May Oliver, Martha Raye, George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, Claudette Colbert, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Joan Crawford, Herman Bing, Shirley Temple, Hugh Herbert, Greta Garbo, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, Benny Goodman, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Joe E. Brown, Bing Crosby, William Powell, John Barrymore, Jack Benny, Clark Gable, Leopold Stokowski, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Wallace Beery, May Robson, Edward Everett Horton, Akim Tamiroff, Kay Francis, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Jeanette MacDonald, and Nelson Eddy among others.
Audiences of the time would have recognized the popular celebrities that were parodied in this short. In the generations before social media, such films not only provided entertainment to cinema goers, the subjects portrayed also received much welcomed publicity.
Baby Snooks has a facial expression similar to the popular cartoon and toy character, the Kewpie doll.
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