![]() ![]() In 1989 “Betty Boop’s Hollywood mystery” Betty Boop works as a waitress at a diner in Los Angeles, she also entertains clients, singing while hoping to be a Hollywood star. In 1974 Betty Boop makes a film revival “The Betty Boop Scandals”, in 1985 “The romance of Betty Boop”, tells a story set in New York where Betty dreaming of moving in high society, she sells shoes by day and performs at Club Bubbles by night. ![]() In 1935 in the episode “A language all my own” Betty wears a kimono and she sings the title song. There are some screen songs cartoons that featured Betty Boop. So while the phrase “Boop-Oop-a-Doop” is usually followed by a bop, in scat singing, that Betty Boop performs in a high-pitched squeak voice, itself doesn’t mean anything specific, it conveys the glamour and energy of jazz music associated with America in the twenties and thirties years. In the cartoon “Boop-Oop-a-Doop” the phrase is used with a sexual allusion. Scat singing also allowed singers to express things that in a more conservative period, would have been considered an inappropriate subject matter for popular music. ![]() Scat singing was very dependent on the talent of performers to convey their intentions indirectly. Using this technique, singers use their voices as if they were just another instrument in the band. Other animals in Betty Boop’s comics and films are Bessie Beaver, Brownie Bear, Daisy Cow, Dora Duck, and Harry Horse.īetty Boop became one of the best-known and popular cartoon characters in the world, she was also famous for her phrase “Boop-Oop-a-Doop” a style of jazz singing called scat in which singers improvise sounds or nonsense words. Betty Boop also buys a baby monkey in “My friend the monkey”. We can see Betty Boop and Pudgy at a picnic in “Betty Boop’s Little Pal”, playing with a kitten in “Taking the blame”, and in other cartoons as “A little soap and water”, in this episode, Pudgy takes a bath, “Making friends”, Pudgy finds some friends as a turtle, a rabbit, a little bear, a squirrel, “Happy you and merry me” in which Betty Boop and Pudgy meet a stray kitten called Myron, “Pudgy takes a bow-wow” in this episode while Betty performs her stage show, Pudgy and a kitten are in her dressing room, then they got on stage, in “Riding the rails” Pudgy follows Betty Boop while she goes downtown in the subway. In 1934 she appeared in the first color classic cartoon “Poor Cinderella”, in the film she is with red hair as opposed to her typical black hair.īetty Boop has also a nice little dog called Pudgy the Pup. Betty Boop is also called “Nancy Lee”, “Nan McGrew”, “Baby Boop”. Her first films are: “Minnie the moocher”, “Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle”, “Romantic melodies”, “Swat the fly” in which Betty Boop is in the kitchen, baking a cake. From her debut Betty Boop winking, shaking her hips, hiking up her skirt, she is made to appeal to adult audiences but then she changes her look, due to the Hayes code who established some restrictions on movies and cartoons, so the Fleischers changed her decolletage and thigh bearing dresses for more modest wardrobe and Betty Boop became a housewife, a career girl, teacher of a dancing school, a saleswoman at a department store, a receptionist, a clerk in the city. There is a combination of girlishness and maturity in her character. ![]() While much credit has been given to Grim Natwick for her creation, her transformation into the cute cartoon girl was due to the work of Berny Wolf, Otto Feuer, Seymour Kneitel, “Doc” Crandall, Willard Bowsky, and James “Shamus” Culhane.ĭancing and singing in a squeaky voice, Betty Boop mixes innocence and sensuality. Betty Boop made her first appearance in 1930 in the cartoon “Dizzy dishes” with a dog called Bimbo.īetty Boop was originally created as a French poodle singing at a nightclub, then she became an attractive woman with a childish and sophisticated look, a doll-like face with pouty lips, big eyes, and a very small body, wearing tight and short dresses, and high heels. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with animators including Grim Natwick. ![]()
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