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Betty Boop
Trivia
Betty
Boop was born in the early 1930's at the Fleischer Brothers studios
in New York, designed by Fleischer studio and animator Grim
Natwick."Dizzy Dishes" was Betty Boop's First Cartoon Appearance.
Betty
was originally designed to be a canine girlfriend to Bimbo the dog.
Her early appearances featured her as a dog with a human
body.
In early cartoons, she was featured as a supporting
cast member and Bimbo as the main character. Her cartoons were
actually designed for adults not children.
Betty's
one and only colored cartoon in the 1930's was "Poor
Cinderella" she was a red head.
Betty Boop was
first identified as "Betty Boop" in "Silly Scandals" in 1931.
Betty's first appearance
as a human female was in "Kitty
from Kansas
City" in 1931 and featured the singing of
Rudy Vallee.
During
Betty's performance of "You're Driving Me Crazy" in "Silly
Scandals" (1931), Betty's top
kept falling off revealing a frilly
bra.
"Any
Rags," released in 1932, was the first film in which her dog ears
became hoop earrings.
In the 1933 cartoon "Popeye the Sailor"
Betty and Popeye danced the Hula together. The
classic
cartoon Betty Boop's "Crazy Inventions" was released in
1933. Louis Armstrong and his music
were featured in the
Betty Boop cartoon "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" in
1932.
In
1933 Betty Boop's garter was banned. Helen Kane,a paramount
contract singer, was know
as the Boop-Oop-Doop girl.
Betty Boop has
famous guest stars: Cab Calloway, Louis
Armstrong,The Royal Samoans, and Don
Redmans.In
1932 the release of "Minnie the Moocher"marked the first of the
cartoons to
feature a big name Jazz star, Cab Calloway, who also
appeared in two other Boop cartoons, "The Old Man of the Mountain"
and "Snow White".
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More Trivia
Mae
Questel, the famous voice of Betty Boop,
was the first voice for
Olive Oyl in Popeye car-
toons. Betty Boop's last cartoons were
made in
1939. The final cartoon Betty Boop did was "Yip
Yip
Yippy" in 1939. From
1932 to 1939 Betty Boop made over 80 cartoons.
The
Daily and the Sunday Betty Boop comic strips were drawn by Bud
Caunihan. Mae
Questel's first role was in "Betty Co-Ed," 1931
and did the voice until the series ended in 1939.
She
was quite adept at mimicry and could imitate anyone.
She also, like Ann bore a striking resemblance to Betty.
The voice of Betty Boop was done by several women, including
Annabel Little ("Little Ann Little") Margie Heinz, Kate Wright and
Bonnie Poe, but Little Ann and Mae Questel were the
mostimportant. LittleAnn Little did the voice first
and then
went on the road with a Betty Boop act. The
act consisted, in part of a drawing
demonstration
by Pauline Comanor, who drew Ann as Betty Boop and handed out
the drawings
to lucky audience members. Mae Questel
the voice
of Betty Boop, won a Helen Kane look alike contest as a teenager.
Mae Questel,the Voice of Betty Boop, died at the age of 89, on
January 4th, 1998.
Mae Questel-Voiceography--also was the
voice of Fleischer's Olive Oyl; later she was also the voice of
Little Audrey, as well as working on the Casper
cartoon.
"Hurray for Betty Boop", a disastrous color Betty
Boop movie that was made in the late 1970's was released in 1980 and
quickly went into video
"The Romance of Betty Boop" was
televised in 1985, by CBS, it was an unsuccessful television
special.
Betty was in retirement up until 1988, when she
came back on screen for an appearance in "Who Framed Roger
Rabbit"
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