Cinema, tv - Cartoons Betty Boop!!!!!!!!

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The Birth of Betty The first appearance of Betty Boop was in the 6th Talkartoon starring Bimbo, entitled "Dizzy Dishes" (1930.). Grim Natwick was the first animator to draw Betty, who had not yet been officially named. He took inspiration for Betty's spit curls from a song sheet of Helen Kane, commonly called the "Boop Oop a Doop Girl". Betty started out being designed as a human-like dog, only her black button nose and floppy ears hinting at her canine nature. These ears later became her round earrings, in part due to the fact that the Fleischer animators had a tendency to change animating styles and features of characters from cartoon to cartoon, and sometimes within the same cartoon. (In "Bum Bandit"-1931- Betty's nose changes from black to white and then back again in the same cartoon.) Her high baby voice, like her spit curls, were in imitation of singer Helen Kane. Her first starring role was in "Betty Coed" (1931), which also marked the first time the name Betty was connected with the character. In "Any Rags" (1932), Betty became completely human, and her ears permanently became earrings. As for her famous garter, Betty started out with two, then early drawings showing her still with ears show the garter on her right leg. When she became a regular, however, and her features were officially set, the garter moved to her left leg, and stayed there.

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BETTY BOOP'S RISE TO FAME It's true - the first truly female animated star began her career as a dog. She was originally created as a feminine canine foil to play opposite Bimbo, a diminutive dog who had been the Fleischer Studios' answer to Mickey Mouse before Betty came along. But even in her first appearance in "Dizzy Dishes," the as-yet unnamed character clearly possessed uniquely feminine charms never before seen in cartoons - and only rarely attempted since. Betty continued to evolve in the Fleischer "Talkartoon" series, and by the time "Any Rags" was released in 1932, her floppy dog's ears had evolved into earrings, and the world's first truly female cartoon star was fully formed. There had been female characters before Betty Boop, but by all accounts her predecessors were more or less stick-like figures in pumps who played second fiddle to male characters. Eventually, the popularity of Betty's baby face, little-girl voice, independent attitude and womanly charms proved powerful enough for her to star in a cartoon series of her own. Interestingly, even after Betty evolved into a human and hit the big time, Bimbo continued to appear as her nominal boyfriend, despite the fact that he remained a dog throughout his career.

Betty dreesed like a gypsy

This is the original Betty Boop drawing

Hot Betty on bike!!

BETTY'S SPECIAL APPEAL From the beginning, Betty's act had a hypnotic effect not just on Bimbo, but on just about everyone and everything in the constantly "morphing" Fleischer universe. Not even inanimate objects were immune to Betty's charms. Betty always managed to fend off her numerous lecherous suitors without ever quite seeming to understand their behavior toward her. "Do you like your job?" asks Betty's harassing employer in a cartoon titled "Boop-oop-a-doop." The lout whispers his desires in Betty's ear as his hand caresses her thigh in sensuous strokes. First surprised, then enraged, Betty slaps his face in reply, singing, "You can feed me bread and water, or a great big bale of hay, but don't take my boop-oop-a-doop away!" At the hands of her Times Square-based animators, Betty achieved a realism of feminine motion said to have been acquired through careful observation of the exaggerated strutting of that neighborhood's ladies of the night. Certainly the occasional but quite detailed glimpses of Betty's silhouetted form (which was often revealed by having Betty pass in front of an animated light source) demonstrate the animators' keen grasp of the feminine anatomy. During the heyday of such risqué screen sirens as Mae West, the Fleischer animators felt free to allow freak gusts of wind to raise her skirt - decades before Marylin Monroe straddled a subway grate.

Betty with dog

Santa Betty

THEY TRIED TO TAKE HER BOOP-OOP-A-DOOP AWAY Betty's flapper style and disarmingly innocent sexuality attracted passionate fans, but it also made her some enemies among moralists who felt her boop-oop-a-doop left too little to the imagination. According to former Fleischer animator Myron Waldman, the 1933 short Boilesque" was banned in Philadelphia for being too risqué. In the same year, self-censorship arising from complaints about sexual content in films led to the brief disappearance of the garter on Betty's left thigh, which was reportedly returned due to public demand. A year later, just as Boop-o-mania reached its peak, a spit-curled singer named Helen Kane filed a $250,000 lawsuit charging that Betty had stolen her boop-oop-a-doop and loopy style, thereby causing her career to wane as Betty's star rose. When the case came to trial, other performers testified that they had used "boop-oop-a-doop" and similar phrasings prior to Helen Kane; the singer lost her case. By 1934, the overriding influence of the Hays office - creators of what was to become today's movie rating system - caused a profound shift in the way Betty was presented to the public. Betty began showing far less leg, and her décolletage was often obscured by prim buttons. Her lecherous suitors disappeared. Eventually, Betty was nudged from the limelight by Pudgy, a cute pet pooch who was forever getting her in trouble, and the lovable Grampy, who helped Betty solve problems with his wacky inventions. As World War II loomed, the market for Betty's films at home and abroad thinned; the series ended with the release of "Yip, Yip, Yippy" in 1939.

Pretty dress Betty

Sexy Betty!!

kneeling Betty

BETTY'S ON THE AIR AGAIN Betty Boop cartoons were among the first theatrical shorts to be repackaged for television syndication during the early 1960s. And, on August 8, 1996, American Movie Classics, which recently brought Betty Boop back to the small screen on Saturday mornings, aired a prime-time, star-studded tribute to the cartoon queen. AMC's "65th Anniversary Salute to Boop" included a marathon presentation of original 1930s cartoons hosted by noted Hollywood director Richard Fleischer, son of Max Fleischer, who was responsible for bringing Betty Boop and co-stars Koko and Bimbo out of the inkwell in the early 1930s. Arts & Entertainment aired a "Biography" of Betty Boop in 1996, marking the first time a cartoon star had been profiled for the cable network's acclaimed series. "The Romance of Betty Boop" and "Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery," two full-color animated specials, were originally produced in the 1980s for network television. Betty had a cameo role in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988). The film blended animated, ink-and-paint cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood live actors. Betty Boop's name and image continue to turn up on popular television shows, including "Murphy Brown," "Beverly Hills 90210, " "Melrose Place" and the British cult import "Absolutely Fabulous."

look! matching hats!! lol!!

4th of July Betty

Whoa!! keep ur skirt down Betty!!lol!!

"BETTY BOOP: The Definitive Collection" ON VIDEO She'll never let anyone take her "boop-oop-a-doop" away, but now fans are able to take Betty home. Republic Entertainment's "Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection" arrived in video stores nationwide in 1996 in an eight-volume collectors' edition. The boxed set, which is still available nationwide, includes 115 of Max and Dave Fleischer's Betty Boop cartoons, an interview with Max's son, Richard, and a bonus booklet, "Betty Boop Boopliography," that reveals intriguing historical tidbits.

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