betty boop #2 (sex symbol)
  Freestyle - September 12th, 2007    Views: 717    Rated: 
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According to Max Fleischer’s brother Betty’s development was still incomplete, so he changed her again to be more of a sexier and more feminine appearance.  Talkartoons short, Minnie the Moocher, officially christened her, “Betty Boop” in 1932. Calloway and his orchestra lent their talents with the music for this film.  This film was made that Betty was growing up and she ran away from her parents with her boyfriend, and stayed in a cave.  There was a group of ghostly walrus, skeletons and other ghosts that scared they both and they fleet back to the safety of home. Betty was the star in all the Talkartoons movies, and after the release of, “Stopping the Show” in 1932 the Talkartoons series was replaced by a series of Betty Boop Cartoons.

 

In the movie Minnie the Moocher, her parents seemingly being Orthodox Jews, which made many think she was intended to be an overly Jewish character, but in the movie of 1936 called Being Human, her Grandpa was per trade as a person from the wild wild west. Letting people know that she was not intended to be an overly Jewish character at all. 

 

She is very noteworthy for being the first cartoon character to fully represent a sexual woman. Other character showed there panties regularly, Minnie Mouse for one, but didn’t have a human women form.  Betty on the other hand, showed her sexuality and wore short dresses, garter belts, and of cause with her prominent breasts, show her cleavage.  In her cartoons, they had people trying to sneak a peek of her when she was changing.  (How funny that was)  They went as far as having her in just a lei and grass skirt, which was used in the Popeye Movie.  (That is one of the first cartoon’s I saw of her in wearing this outfit.) Non-the less they always per trade her as a pure and girl like human, since she was only to be sixteen years old.  As Betty is telling KoKo the clown, in the film Boop-Oop-A-Doop, after being threatened by the ringmaster, “They can’t take my Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away.”

 

Her cartoons stood out due to also the good music and the people who worked with her. Some are:  Cab Calloaway, Louis Armstrong, Rudy Vallee, Dan Redman, Ethel Merman, Irene Bordoni, and Reis & Dunn.  The adult sensibilities of Betty’s cartoons  made her the hit she was and still is.  But in the mean time (Helen Kane, took Fleischer studios to court and tried to say she was the person that it all came from, she lost and Fleischer was able to keep everything about her even Kane’s, saying Boop-Oop-A-Doop.  All this was due to Fleischer proving that other performers before Kane used the saying.

 

Look for Part#3---Betty Tamed & Betty Today........  

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

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