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This here is a rewrite of the "100 Little Known Facts About Betty Boop", however this article by the Betty Boop Fandom corrects misinformation.

110 Little Known Facts


Betty Boop Facts by Betty Boop Fandom

Betty Boop is still popular throughout the world. Fleischer Studios' animators gave her the common touch. Betty's cartoons, which were frequently set in Depression-era New York City, took adult moviegoers to weird worlds where the characters were pursued by frightening creatures but where everything turned out all right in the end. Decades later, she still endures.


110 Facts About Betty Boop:

1. Betty Boop made her first cartoon appearance as a satire of Helen Kane, Clara Bow and flapper girls of the Roaring Twenties in the 1930 short Dizzy Dishes.


2. Betty Boop's initial cartoon debut was as a dog with long floppy ears and great legs.


3. According to King Features, Betty Boop originally appeared in human form in the cartoon short Any Rags?, although her first legit appearance according to the "Betty Boop Wikia Fandom" as a human girl was actually in Mask-A-Raid.


4. Betty Boop has appeared in over 100 cartoons.


5. Betty Boop was best recognized for her cartoons, but she also appeared in two comic strips, a radio show, and two network animated musical specials.


6. Betty Boop was chastised for being overly seductive in the 1930s.


7. According to King Features, the famed garter vanished in 1933, but public demand brought it back. This is false information, Betty's garter-belt was never removed, it was hidden by the longer dresses she wore.


8. In 1989, CBS aired Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery, a second animated musical spectacular.


9. Today there are 250 companies manufacturing Betty Boop licensed products in the United States and nearly as many abroad.


10. Betty Boop's cartoons featured great musical stars such as Maurice Chevalier, Rudy Vallée, Ethel Merman, Louis Armstrong, and Cab Calloway.


11. Betty Boop was the sole character not depicted in color in the 1988 production of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.


12. The UCLA Film and Television Archive restored 11 Fleischer cartoons for Betty Boop Confidential, a critically acclaimed feature-length cartoon retrospective.


13. Betty Boop was originally voiced by Margie Hines, it was later occasionally performed by Bonnie Poe, Anne Belle Little aka Little Ann Little, and radio voice by Kate Wright and Shirley Reid.


14. Mae Questel, Betty Boop's iconic distinctive voice, was also the talent for Olive Oyl and Little Audrey.


15. After a wave of puritanical attacks and an expensive strike in 1938, Betty Boop Cartoons ended in 1939 with Yip Yip Yippy, however the final entry does not feature Betty Boop.


16. Riding the Rails was nominated for an Oscar.


17. Betty Boop appeared in scanty attire, in Silly Scandals and Poor Cinderella, more than three decades before Madonna was even born.


18. In Barnacle Bill, Betty Boop coyly pushed her skirt down, just to have it pop back up again.


19. Each second of film in Betty Boop cartoons is made up of 24 frames.


20. Long before Marilyn Monroe's gown began flapping in the breeze. Betty Boop's dress made this statement in Betty Boop's Ups and Downs.


21. Bimbo's appearance changed in practically every Talkartoon; he was a white dog in some and a black dog in others.


22. Betty Boop had no name, or different names, up until she appeared in Betty Co-Ed, inspired by a hit song by crooner Rudy Vallée. Betty went under the aliases [[Nancy Lee], Dangerous Nan McGrew, [[Dolly Prance], and Nellie.


23. Betty Boop wore her garter on her left leg at all times.


24. Betty Boop, as portrayed in person by Victoria D'Orazi, stood for President in 1980, supported by a group of amused businessmen led by Alan Abel. It was a lighthearted jab at the election-year hilarity. Betty's slogan? "Don't be a droop! "Vote for Boop!".


25. The Betty Boop & Bimbo Club secret sign was to place both hands over the eyes and then over the mouth.
"Keep your eyes open and your mouth closed."


26. Betty Boop was born in New York City, at 1600 Broadway, home of Fleischer Studios. Betty Boop's official birthdate was set by Max Fleischer on April 1, 1915.


27. NTA Films colorized one hundred Betty Boop films in the 1970s to appeal to a television cartoon audience.


28. The talking animals who had been Betty Boop's playmates were dropped from the series by 1934. Her only animal companions from then on were silent pets, with her main companion being Pudgy.


29. Betty Boop was America's first multi-talented female cartoon celebrity, appearing in theater, music, comedy, and fairy tales.


30. Betty Boop is one of four winners of the All American Rose Selections, which will made their debut in flower beds in 1999. "Betty Boop" is a charming floribunda rose with ivory-yellow flowers with a scarlet edging and rich green leaves.


31. Beso Entertainment Studios of New York City and Los Angeles produced The Betty Boopers, a recording and performing act based on the famous character and starring four Betty Boop look-alikes. It featured Debbi Fuhrman, who later became an official Betty Boop impersonator.


32. From 1934 through 1936, the book Betty Boop's Sunday Page: The Complete Color Comics covers Betty's brief tenure on the funny pages.


33. To mark Betty Boop's 65th anniversary in 1995, the Betty Boop Confidential retrospective visited 20 locations in the United States, concluding in a special screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood.


34. There was an annual Betty Boop festival with Betty Boop impersonators and tattoo contests.


36. Betty Boop is the only female cartoon character who is regarded a genuine cinematic star. However in the cartoon world, Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse another famous female cartoon star, has an equal level of recognition.


36. Max Fleischer created Betty Boop, based on animator Grim Natwick's "original character" who debuted in Dizzy Dishes in 1930.


37. When the cartoons were televised, most of the lewd small frames that were secretly slip into Betty Boop's films were removed.


38. Betty Boop is well-known throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, and South America.


39. Betty Boop was one of a few famous female icons honored in a clothing line designed by Bob Mackie.


40. Parfums Paris Hollywood created "Betty Boop" as a fragrance.


41. Betty Boop has been in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a number of times.


42. Snow White, a Betty Boop Short, was produced years before the Disney blockbuster of the same name and has been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress's National Film Registry.


43. Betty Boop's sensual silhouette was often visible in films as she passed in front of a light source, before the censors tamed her.


45. Betty Boop was a redhead in Poor Cinderella, despite having black hair. It turns out that red is actually Betty's original hair color.


46. "In many ways, Betty Boop was the first truly feminine animated character," wrote Charles Solomon in his book "Enchanted Drawing: The History of Animation."


47. Betty Boop's Definitive Library has almost 13 hours of Boop content.


48. There are over a million frames of animators' art for Betty Boop that exist.


49. Betty Boop dolls and toys were produced in the 1930s, with the most popular being the Betty Boop Cameo Doll.


50. Betty Boop and Friends, a newspaper strip, was popular in the 1980s.


51. Betty Boop was once the mascot for the Adopt-A-Cartoon Animation Preservation Project, which was dedicated to preserving pre-1950 cartoons.


52. A Betty Boop cartoon typically lasts six to eight minutes.


53. Betty Boop's theme tune "Sweet Betty" debuted in 1932.


54. Warner Bros. International Television Production once signed an agreement with Fleischer Studios to produce 26 half-hour episodes of Betty Boop's Misguided Tours, an animated television series.


65. Betty Boop's world tour included appearances on NBC's Today with Willard Scott, as well as the London Now YWS Parade, and the Hong Kong Christmas Parade.


56. Betty Boop once said that she can do anything a man can do.


57. Betty Boop established her fame and success in adult-oriented theaters.


58. Betty Boop was one of the earliest animated films to have a soundtrack.


59. Artist Pauline Comanor sketched Betty Boop, and distributed the paintings to audience members during live Betty Boop performances, and she closed her live act with Little Ann Little and a Boop-Boop-a-Doop.


60. After 1935, the Hays Office of the Motion Picture Producer's and Distributor's Code, the forerunner of the ratings system, were able to raise Betty's daring necklines and lower her hemlines to near-primeness.


61, Poor Cinderella was Betty Boop's sole original color cartoon.


62. Betty Boop cartoons gave African-American jazz performers like Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams and Cab Calloway prominence, which helped popularize the embryonic American art genre throughout the 1930s. Betty's "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" scat-singing is said to have originated in an alternate form during the Harlem Renaissance, and was originally used by African-American female singers from the early and late 1920s such as Gertrude Saunders, Florence Mills, Mae Barnes, Baby Cox, Baby Esther Jones and Josephine Baker.


63. Betty Boop impersonated [[Helen Kane], Maurice Chevalier, Fanny Brice, and Jimmy Durante in Stopping the Show. Due to the "$250,000 Infringement Lawsuit", a scenario in which Helen Kane asks Betty to impersonate her was cut. Instead, the camera pans to Betty performing "That's My Weakness Now" on stage.


64. In 1935, Betty Boop's boyfriend Fearless Fred was introduced.


65. Betty Boop's creator, Max Fleischer, was born in Vienna in 1889 and died in California in 1972.


66. In 1985, CBS aired The Romance of Betty Boop, an animated musical special.


68. Popeye initially appeared in a Betty Boop short titled Popeye the Sailor, dancing the hula alongside Betty Boop.


69. Betty Boop cartoons were produced from 1930 until 1939.


70. Betty Boop's designers were obliged to employ Cinecolor, a two-color process, because Disney had exclusive use of the Technicolor three-color process.


71. Betty Boop is mentioned as a sexual ideal in a Van Halen's "Drop Dead Legs" song from 1984.


72. Betty Boop's image was licensed for use on products by 1934.


73. Betty Boop's image appeared in a Rolling Stones tour montage of attractive feminine idols.


74. Betty Boop portrayed by "Betty Boop Impersonators" played a starring role at the MGM Grand Hotel, MGM Casino, and MGM Theme Park. And also consistently at Universal Studios.


75. Betty appeared stiff and rarely changed positions in the Betty Boop comic strip. This was because the artist Bud Counihan pasted up Photostats of Betty rather than sketching her.


76. "Betty Boop's Cam," a dealer located outside of Los Angeles, once sold used vehicles.


77. Betty Boop cartoons were among the first to be repackaged for television syndication.


78. Betty Boop continued to appear on famous television shows such as Murphy Brown and Beverly Hills 90210.


79. Boopabilia refers to Betty Boop memorabilia.


80. Betty Boop appeared in the first cartoon to attain realistic, life-like quality, thanks to the Fleischers' invention of the rotoscope.


81. There are multiple recognized Betty Boop fan clubs.


82. A large number of admirers have visited the official Betty Boop website, the "Betty Boop Wikia Fandom" has over 1000 articles on Betty and the Boop-Oop-a-Doop, and there are over 100,000 Betty Boop-related entries on America Online.


83. Betty Boop's nose goes from a snout to a human button shaped nose in The Bum Bandit.


84. Betty Boop was the first cartoon star to be included in A&E's acclaimed biography series.


85. Betty Boop, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, led the world's largest coordinated tap dance sequence at the 1995 event Macy's Tap-O-Mania Goes Boop-Oop-a-Doop.


86. The Sunday strip ran until 1937.


87. Bimbo was originally Betty Boop's boyfriend in earlier Fleisher cartoons. Betty and Bimbo were anthropomorphic dogs, comparable to Disney's mouse icons Mickey and Minnie.


88. Bimbo's voice changed from cartoon to cartoon. His voice was generally deeper and more human than Mickey Mouse's squeaky one.


89. Cab Calloway and his orchestra appeared in the 1932 film Minnie the Moocher. Later in the cartoon, Mr. Calloway came as a dancing, singing ghost walrus.


90. Boopaholics are Betty Boop lovers. The promoted name "Betty Boop Lover" was formerly commonly used by the current admin of this Fandom, and it later inspired a Russian band called The Betty Boop Lovers. Another name created by the admin was "Betty Boop Sings" which was also later taken by a record company and made into an album titled Betty Boop Sings.


91. The home video collection Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection brought together all of the Betty Boop cartoons for the first time.


92. Betty Boop's eyelashes appear in close-ups with six lashes above and five below, and in long views with five above and four below.


93. Betty Boop in Boop-Oop-a-Doop considers her singing style to be awful.


94. Until Bimbo's Initiation, Betty Boop was not a regular character in the Talkartoons series, as most of the earlier Fleischer cartoons revolve around Koko the Clown and Bimbo the Musical Dog.


95. Betty Boop had previously portrayed a Native-American maiden, a masquerade ball queen, and a singer in earlier cartoons.


96. Betty has two younger brothers named Billy Boop and Bubby Boop, as well as a cousin named Buzzy Boop and a nephew named Junior.


97. Fleischer Studios copyrighted the name Betty before combining it with Boop.


98. "Co-Ed" was one of the Screen Songs cartoons, the successor to the original Ko-Ko Song Cartunes that brought the bouncing ball back to life for sound viewers.


99. In Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions, Betty Boop invented the tape recorder and the spot remover. The tape recorder was a box containing a mouse. The spot remover eliminated the stains as well as the materials on which they appeared.


100. Artist Grim Natwick was the first to draw Betty Boop, and he is sometimes credited with originating the character due to the Betty Boop character being his idea in 1930 that he conceived with Dave Fleischer. However Natwick is often discredited, because numerous other Fleischer staff went on to develop the Betty Boop character after he left the studio.


101. Allison Katzman created Blythe dolls. The Blythe dolls concept were partially based on Betty Boop.


102. In 1937, a lady named Babette Smith represented herself as the original Betty Boop and performed Betty Boop songs on stage, including the famous "Dangerous Nan McGrew" song.


103. Diana Rice of Boston earned first place in one of the many Boop-A-Like contests hosted in cities such as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Daytona, San Francisco, and Detroit in 1995.


104. The Four Betty Boop Girls were a 1934 act that comprised four of the original Betty Boop voices.


105. Betty Boop's popularity increased after the release of Cuphead on September 29th, 2017.


106. Betty's skill to impersonate came directly from Mae Questel, who was a well-known mimic and impersonator in addition to being a singer. Questel had been amusing and impersonating people since she was a youngster, earning her the nickname Little Miss Mimic.


107. The typical Fleischer song cartoon takes ten weeks to complete. A week was spent synchronizing the sound, and the rest of the time was spent on the structure of the animation itself.


108. Betty Boop was once officially voiced by Melissa Fahn starting from 1989, Fahn eventually retired from the role. Cindy Robinson auditioned for the part with King Features and was cast as Betty Boop's official voice in the late 2000s. Robinson's position is currently shared by Lauren "Coco" Cohn and former Universal Studios character impersonator Sandy Fox.


109. The admin of the Betty Boop Wikia, a website maintained by Fandom, unearthed and studied the majority of the unusual information about Betty Boop circulating social media. Millions of people throughout the world have shared this information, and it is here to help "genuine" people discover the truth, facts, and trivia about the legendary 1930s cartoon vamp Betty Boop and the origin of the "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" music genre.


110. As of 2023, Black Betty Boop is official, and is a black counterpart of Betty Boop.


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