(see □ Happy Birthday, Betty Boop! (1) ) Betty Boopwas the first genuinely feminine animated character and the only female cartoon to be considered a true movie star. Head over to a high-spirited music-and-comedy revue the whole family will enjoy, accompanied by a country feast, at Disneys Fort Wilderness Resort.
She was initially intended as a caricature of popular singer and actress, Helen Kane, who – it was discovered later – was merely a copycat of another singer, Esther Jones, known as Baby Esther owing to her “baby” singing style. The cartoon starts with Betty dancing a shimmy. This entertainer was an African American singer of the late 1920s who regularly performed at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem and had been the first to popularize the phrase “boop-oop-a-doop”.Some years later Kane had reached success with the song “ That’s My Weakness Now,” in which she used the same phrase “ boop-boop-a-doop” hinting at sex.īetty Boopsoon became the most popular character created for the Fleischer Studio. Boop-Oop-a-Doop is an early Betty Boop cartoon, from the period when the Fleischers were still imitating Disney. Unlike Disney’s Silly Symphonies, which emphasized innocent themes, she was the first character on the animation screen to represent a sexual woman, who was able to use witty double entendres. She was not employed simply to highlight the qualities of a male. How near to 'Boop-Boop-a-Doop' is 'Poo-Poo-a-Doop,' 'Wha-Da-De-Dah,' 'Bo-Deo-Do' and 'Ba-Da-Daten-Doop.' The various baby-talk 'breaks' went into the record of Helen Kanes 250,000 damage suit against Max Fleischer. On the contrary, she was an independent woman who once said “I can do anything a man can do.”Īll other cartoon girls of that time, such as Minnie Mouse, did not differ much from their male co-stars, with only eyelashes, voice and outfit alterations to show their femininity. She was also the first cartoon character to fall victim to “The Hays Office of the Motion Picture Producer’s and Distributor’s Code”, the forerunner of today’s ratings system, which forced morality restrictions on films.
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Since the Code stated : “Indecent or undue exposure is forbidden,” animators had to make her less provocative: her sexual and psychological undertones had to be eliminated, as well as her short skirts and low tops. There were even claims that her “romantic relationship” with the dog Bimbo was immoral!
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