Disappearing Fingers

Celebrity caricatures abound in the Walter Lantz cartoon “Hollywood Bowl” (1938). There’s elaborate arm-waving by many of the singing stars, but one of them keeps losing her fingers.

You can see them pretty clearly in these drawings.



But later in the musical sequence, Martha Raye’s hands turn into clumps.



She’s the only one I noticed in the cartoon who becomes deformed.

Frank Tipper and Merle Gilson are the credited animators.