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Betty holds a Betty Boop Exposition, where she displays the latest modern inventions. Her creations included an ultra-streamlined car, a roadster with multiple rumble seats (for those with a large family), a multi-level baby carriage for quintuplets, and a grand piano that can change into other useful contraptions. Her final invention is her dress, which can change into a flower, a butterfly, and a high-collared gown with a train. The dress is a sensation, and soon everyone is wearing the latest Boop creation.\r
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Directed by Dave Fleischer\r
Produced by Max Fleischer\r
Voices by Mae Questel\r
Animation by Edward Nolan\r
Myron Waldman\r
Distributed by Paramount Pictures\r
Release date(s) November 16, 1934\r
Color process Black-and-white\r
Running time 6 mins\r
Language English\r
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Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9, 1930, in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes; the sixth installment in Fleischers Talkartoon series. Although Clara Bow is often given as being the model for Boop, she actually began as a caricature of singer Helen Kane. The character was originally created as an anthropomorphic French poodle.\r
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Max Fleischer finalized Betty Boop as a human character in 1932, in the cartoon Any Rags. Her floppy poodle ears became hoop earrings, and her black poodle nose became a girls button-like nose. Betty Boop appeared as a supporting character in 10 cartoons as a flapper girl with more heart than brains. In individual cartoons, she was called Nancy Lee or Nan McGrew -- derived from the 1930 Helen Kane film Dangerous Nan McGrew -- usually serving as a girlfriend to studio star, Bimbo.\r
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Betty Boop is regarded as one of the first and most famoussymbols on the animated screen; she is a symbol of the Depression era, and a reminder of the more carefree days of Jazz Age flappers. Her popularity was drawn largely from adult audiences, and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many ual and psychological elements, particularly in the Talkartoon, Minnie the Moocher, featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra.\r
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Voiced by Margie Hines (1930--1932, 1938--1939)\r
Ann Rothschild (1931--1933)\r
Mae Questel (1931--1938, 1988)\r
Kate Wright (1932, 1938)\r
Bonnie Poe (1933--1934, 1938)\r
Victoria Dorazi (1980)\r
Desiree Goyette (1985)\r
Melissa Fahn (1989, 2004--2008)\r
Cheryl Chase (2002)\r
Tara Strong (commercials)\r
Sandy Fox (commercials)\r
Cindy Robinson (official)
