1934 Helen kane Launched a Lawsuit against The Fleischer Studios
In Helen kane on the left, and bonnie poe and mae Questel to the right
It was true that Betty Boop was styled on helen kane fully, but the fleischer studios claimed that Clara bow was the insperation which they was lying about, Mabey in betty boops… Continue
Betty Boop has been played by many people, First Mae Questel played betty boop in the short musical Justice 1931, She preforms Dont take my boop oop a doop away
Bonnie Poe - Betty Boop appeared in the paramount Short - Paramount on parade in 1934, Most people think this is either… Continue
The Talkartoon Bum Bandit, Betty Boop's fourth cartoon appearance, was produced in 1931. In the beginning, we get a snippet of "The Hold-Up Rag" to set the theme for the cartoon:
Hands up! Hands up!
Stick 'em up, everybody;
And now we do the hold-up rag!
All aboard!
Look out! It's the hold-up rag! The cartoon opens with Bimbo dressed in black and wearing a bandit mask; he is a small white dog with a big nose (but smaller than the nose he had in Dizzy Dishes and Barnacle Bill.… Continue
Betty made another come-back in the 1989 color cartoon Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery, borrowing a mite ineptly the style of the Fleischer cartoons.
Betty is a waitress in a diner, with entirely the wrong voice which alone wrecks the effectiveness. Doing the voice wrong sabotages the film more than does the limited animation or the purely retarded gags for Koko & Bimbo in the kitchen.
Thees kinda a mistake of not finding a better Helen Kane impersonator than Melissa Fahn.
Fahn did have a… Continue
Born: 8 August 1930
Birthplace: The Movies
Best Known As: The coy and sexy cartoon dame from the 1930s
Betty Boop was the cartoon cutie developed by Max Fleischer for Paramount Studio's Talkartoons cartoon series. Oddly, Betty Boop began life as a dog, but by 1930 she had evolved into a coy flapper whose innocent skirt-lifting and trademark line "boop-boop-a-doop" were sweetly suggestive of more than just singing and dancing. She made her debut on 8 August 1930 in "Dizzy Dishes," the sixth insta… Continue
Helen Kane (August 4, 1904
September 26, 1966) was an American popular singer, her signature song, "I Wanna Be Loved By You". Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick used Kane as the model for his studio's most famous creation, Betty Boop.
[edit] Early life
Born as Helen Schroeder, Kane attended St. Anselm’s Parochial School in the Bronx. She was the youngest of three children.… Continue
The Following imitators Of the Helen Kane Flapper Boo boop be doop style Did their own songs
Mae Questel - The main voice of betty Boop > http://www.archive.org/details/MaeQuestelTheVoiceOfBettyBoop
Includes -
The music goes round and round
The Broken Record
Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly Im In Love/ You would be Suprised
Animal Crackers In My Soup
Dont Take my Boop Boop e Doop Away, The Girl In The Little Gr… Continue
Namco is to release a Betty Boop game, centred around solving jigsaw-style puzzles Published on Jun 12, 2009
Namco is working on a Betty Boop mobile game called Movie Mix up.
Project Next recently revealed screenshots of the upcoming game, which sees you solving sliding puzzles to r… Continue
In short, it was a marvelous career and, seemingly, a marvelous life. Certainly it was a quintessentially New York career stage, cartoons, commercials, radio. Feature films weren't really a factor until they began to move east in more recent times.
Furthermore, Mae retained her authenticity as a character by remaining in the east. Her later on-camera roles felt very real. Mae's most natural voices were always maternal and Jewish. Her Olive Oyl, originally styled after Zasu Pitts, ultimately bec… Continue
During the '30s, a live-action Mae portrayed a Boop-ish character in several Paramount short subjects and was also in a Paramount feature called Wayward. The studio offered her a Hollywood contract in 1932 but typically, she turned it down and remained in New York at the request of her first husband. As with most of her ambitions, film success did ultimately come to Mae. All she had to do was live her life and wait for it.
During the '60s and '70s, she appeared in It's Only Money with Jerry Lew… Continue
Ancillary Antics
Mae had a related career in radio that included both afternoon and evening Betty Boop broadcasts, as well as appearances on such programs as The Green Hornet and Perry Mason. Her early television work included a stint as a panelist on Stop Me If You've Heard This One and as the voice of the interactive cartoon sprite, Winky Dink. She did commercials for Bromo Seltzer, Nabisco Honey Grahams and Yuban Coffee and was the memorably helpful Aunt Bluebell in a series of Scott Towels s… Continue
Taking the role of Betty Boop made Mae Questel immortal (and perhaps vice-versa), but the Fleischers got something out of the bargain as well the first in a stable of voice actors that would make Paramount cartoons second to none in the field of vocal characterizations. With the addition of Jack Mercer (Popeye) in the mid-1930s, the Fleischer cartoons began featuring top-quality vocal tracks long before most other cartoons from either New York or Hollywood could even come close. Mae's ability to… Continue
Her Early History
Mae Questel was a natural "ham," born into a family that didn't believe show business was a suitable profession for a respectable girl. The young New Yorker had obvious talent and performed frequently at charitable and community functions. However, professional opportunities were rejected by both her parents and grandparents.
In retrospect, it seems inevitable that Mae would eventually enjoy a professional theatrical career. While still a child, for instance, her talent brough… Continue
In February 1995, animation historian Jerry Beck curated a Museum of Modern Art tribute to the cartoons of Paramount's Famous Studios. At a party related to the event, Jackson Beck, most famous as the voice of Bluto in many of the Paramount cartoons, was peppered with questions about the vocal history of the east coast animation studio. His response was something like, "There's only one person alive who was there from the beginning and she can't tell you anything." The person Beck was referring… Continue
Born Mae Kwestel September 13, 1908, in New York City, she was raised in the Bronx by parents Simon Kwestel and Frieda Glauberman, where she honed her abilities as a mimic and dialect comic at local charitable functions. Although her parents demanded she quit her dramatic studies and latch on to a steady career in teaching, the youngster's love of performance determined her fate. By the time… Continue
This is From the Diary of some man, or something About little Ann little, Theirs a picture of Her,
ANN L. ROTHSCHILD DIES AT 71; WAS THE VOICE OF BETTY BOOP
FORT MYERS, FLA., Oct. 24 (AP) — Ann. L.Rothschild, a movie actress who was the original voice of the animated cartoon charact… Continue
