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Betty Boops Hollywood Mystery 1989
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 naturally babyish voice, which got her spotted (or overheard) by the second-rate casting directors for the Betty Boop cartoon while Fahn was working as a receptionist.
Fahn would go on to much professional voice work plus a tiny bit of professional acting. So this film was better for her than it was for Betty by a long shot.
She sings "On Movie Star Island" to the diners. Which stinks. Meanwhile Mr. Slade is being hired under mysterious circumstances by a mystery lady. The number's big finale has the villainous cat slipping on a banana peal. He fires Betty, Bimbo the dog-boy, & Koko the clown
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 naturally babyish voice, which got her spotted (or overheard) by the second-rate casting directors for the Betty Boop cartoon while Fahn was working as a receptionist.
Fahn would go on to much professional voice work plus a tiny bit of professional acting. So this film was better for her than it was for Betty by a long shot.
She sings "On Movie Star Island" to the diners. Which stinks. Meanwhile Mr. Slade is being hired under mysterious circumstances by a mystery lady. The number's big finale has the villainous cat slipping on a banana peal. He fires Betty, Bimbo the dog-boy, & Koko the clown
Tags: 1989, betty, boop, boops, doop, fahn, hollywood, melissa, mystery, oop
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