![]() ![]() “Black Panther” Star Danai Gurira Tells The Stories Of Black Women’s Lives: BUST InterviewĬelebrating The Life And Legacy Of Marsha P. Esther Jones is the inspiration behind one of the most iconic characters in the American culture, yet most people have no idea who she is. ![]() O’Meally commented on this story in the anthology Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, saying Betty Boop “had, as it were, a black grandmother in her background.” Unfortunately, to this day, many people are unaware of this story. Baby Esther technically got the credit for the style behind Helen Kane’s “booping,” and by extension, Betty Boop. Esther had passed away in 1934, so this was the only form of evidence that they could provide.Īlmost immediately after the film was released, the trial ended and Kane lost. The defense managed to find a 1928 sound film of Baby Esther’s performance, and played it for the judge. Walton revealed that Kane had attended Baby Esther’s act in April of 1928, and began “booping” just like Esther a few weeks after the show. The trial went on for two years until the defense called Baby Esther’s manager, Lou Walton, to testify. While Betty was visually a caricature of Kane, her famous “booping” was the appropriation of Baby Esther’s signature scat, which she performed at the Cotton Club in Harlem throughout the 1920s. Kane believed that the character was based on much more than just her looks, and claimed that it was based on her entire persona- she insisted that she had invented the phrase “Boop-oop-a-doop” in her well known 1928 hit song, “I Wanna Be Loved By You.” As a result, Kane filed a $250,0000 infringement lawsuit against Fleischer and the film company Paramount Publix Corp. Final appearance in the Screen Songs series.The visual inspiration behind Betty Boop, a Max Fleischer Studios creation, was actually a popular white actress and singer named Helen Kane.Popular Melodies (Music by Arthur Jarrett) Romantic Melodies (Music by Arthur Tracy) Rudy Vallee Melodies (Music by Rudy Vallée) You Try Somebody Else (Music by Ethel Merman) Only entry featuring Betty Boop in the Talkartoons series to be in the public domain.Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Music by Ethel Merman) Named #20 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.Minnie the Moocher (music by Cab Calloway) ![]() Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (music by The Round Towners Quartet) Bimbo's girlfriend is largely a generic one-off, but is drawn to resemble Betty in a few close-ups that were likely inserted later.A Bimbo cartoon, seemingly held over from earlier in production- Bimbo appears in a primitive design.First use of the song "Sweet Betty" which would become the theme song for the Betty Boop series.Surviving master negative has original opening title card intact.TaraJi P Henson at the BET AWARDs of 2021 as. Final time Betty Boop is depicted as a dog. Like most fake news, The Betty Boop oops story had catastrophic effects, Causing even people like of TaraJi P Henson at the BET AWARDs of 2021, to make a complete ass of herself by going into Full Betty Boop cosplay attire and claiming Betty was black culture.Betty Boop appears briefly topless in a bathtub.First time Betty Boop is depicted as a human as opposed to a dog- with dog ears replaced by earrings.Kitty from Kansas City (music by Rudy Vallée) First time Betty's full name appears on the titles, stylized as "Betty-Boop".Placed at #37 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.First time Betty is named, although only as "Betty" (no surname is given).First time Betty Boop is seen in her slender physique.Willard Bowsky, Al Eugster, Grim Natwick (uncredited) Willard Bowsky, Ted Sears, Grim Natwick (uncredited) Note: see the Talkartoons and Screen Songs filmography for additional entries in the series.īetty Boop Essential Collection (BBEC) Volume 2 1īetty Boop Definitive Collection (BBDC) VHS Volume 1 Appearances in Talkartoons and Screen Songs series It includes the long-lost recently discovered cartoon Honest Love and True. In May 2022, animator and archivist Steve Stanchfield released a Blu-Ray collection titled "The Other Betty Boop Cartoons, Volume 1" through his label Thunderbean Animation, which features public domain cartoons that were not on the Olive Films sets. ![]() Volume 3 was released on April 29, 2014, and Volume 4 on September 30, 2014. Volume 1 was released on August 20, 2013, and Volume 2 on September 24, 2013. All of them were released by many labels but there were no such releases for the Betty Boop cartoons on DVD and Blu-ray, up until 2013 when Olive Films released the non- public domain cartoons in four "Essential Collection" volumes, although they were restored from the original television internegatives that carried the altered opening and closing credits. She was featured in 126 theatrical cartoons between 19 (90 in her own series and 36 in the Talkartoons and Screen Songs series). The following is a list of films and other media in which Betty Boop has appeared. ![]()
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