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Bernadette Peters
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Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She portrayed Betty Boop[1] on Saturday Night Live Season 7: Episode 6 in 1981, and sang "I Wanna Be Loved By You" in a skit titled Johnny Keep Your Gun Clean.
Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two (plus an honorary award), and nine Drama Desk Awards, winning three.
Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works of Stephen Sondheim, Peters is particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage, including in the musicals Mack and Mabel, Sunday in the Park with George, Song and Dance, Into the Woods, The Goodbye Girl, Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy. Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actress in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s.
Peters was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades.
She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. In the 2010s, Peters continues to act on stage, in films and on television in such series as Smash and Mozart in the Jungle. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once.
Peters was often likened to Betty Boop, most critics wrote in articles that Peters reminded them of the character.
On the 20th of February 20 in 1980, it was announced that Peters was asked to portray Betty Boop in a "Betty Boop Broadway Musical," which did not come to fruition. Peters was pursued on numerous occasions throughout the 1980s and early 1990s by the Fleischer Studios[2] to take on the role of Betty Boop, however Peters never once accepted the offers, it is presumed because she was busy with other film and or Broadway work. Had Peters accepted the role, she would have starred as Betty Boop in Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery. After rejecting the offer, the Fleischers tried Cyndi Lauper, Lauper also rejected the offer. They ended up hiring a secretary by the name of Melissa Fahn, who later became the official voice of Betty Boop.
Peters was offered the role again during the early 1990s in The Betty Boop Movie set for a 1994 release. But according to professional voice-over actress Mary Kay Bergman, she won the role. The project dissolved and was canned, due to studio head changes and licensing rights disagreements with the Fleischer representatives.
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- In the 1981 film Pennies from Heaven, Bernadette Peters lip-syncs to Helen Kane's vocals. Kane was known as "The Original Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl" and the song that Peters lip-synced to was "I Wanna Be Bad".
- The voice Peters used when she played Betty Boop live is the same voice she used for Lily St. Regis, Rooster's girlfriend in the 1982 film Annie.
- In a People magazine article from 1982, Bernadette Peters voice was compared to Betty Boop.
- In a 1982 newspaper interview with the Philadelphia Daily News, Bernadette Peters said she enjoyed being compared to Betty Boop and Ruby Keeler and considered herself a modern woman.
- Bernadette was also considered for a Betty Boop role in the late 1980s, but according to a 1987 newspaper article the Fleischer Studios decided to go with Cyndi Lauper, neither artist was used in any animated Betty Boop franchise.
- Two weeks before Betty Boop (MGM/Zanuck Co.) voice recording was to begin, the head of MGM, Alan Ladd, Jr., was replaced by Frank Mancuso, and the project was abandoned.
- When original plans for a Betty Boop Broadway musical feature came up in the 80s, Bernadette Peters was the initial choice to play Betty Boop.