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Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery


The Betty Boop Movie Mystery

Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery
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Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery

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 Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery (1989)

Betty Boop, that singing and dancing ray of cartoon sunshine, takes on the wacky and wonderful world of Hollywood and its moguls, mansions and mysteries in this brand new animated adventure.

Set in the 1930s and reflecting the original Max Fleischer "rubber hose" style of animation, Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery is a delightful mix of music, surrealism and the classic detective genre. The story opens at a run-down but busy diner somewhere near nowhere and Vine in the heart of old Hollywood. Here we find Betty and her pals, Bimbo and Koko, working for Diner Dan, the grumpiest boss on Earth.

Dan's motto, "shut up and eat", leaves little room for appreciation of his employee's musical talents, and when he catches Betty and her friends entertaining the customers with a jazzy Hawaiian Hula revue, he explodes in a rage and fires them. In addition, the trio has caught the attention of one Sam Slade, a self-proclaimed "best detective in town", who offers them a job as undercover musical detectives at a fancy costume party that night. Their mission is to keep an eye on the million-dollar diamond worn by the elegant hostess of the party, none other than the big Hollywood movie star Lola DaVille. At first, our heroes are having the time of their lives at the magnificent ball.

They impress the rich and famous with a wild Latin mambo-rhumba number complete with dancing skeletons and trumpet-blowing hobgoblins, and they even meet Maxwell Moviola, a big director over at the famous Moolah Studios. However, things quickly turn sour: they spot a suspicious skulking figure wearing a sinister mask, the chandelier is shot out, and someone steals Lola's necklace and leaves Betty Boop holding a smoking gun. Koko and Bimbo stand helpless as Betty is apprehended by Lt. Snuffer and carted off to jail, but they soon appear (disguised as lawyers) and give Betty the lowdown on the heist: the thief escaped, but he dropped the sinister mask, which bears the insignia, "Property of Moolah Studios."

Betty's chance to find out who stole the mask from the studio arrives when Lt. Snuffer arranges for her release, hoping that by following her, the police will be able to find the necklace. The trio heads straight for the vast and mysterious Moolah Studios, where they discover that Lola's secretary Miss Green was behind the robbery, and that her accomplice was none other than Sam Slade the detective.

Sam had hired them with the intention of using them as fallguys, scapegoats, for the jewellery heist. The clever Miss Boop blinds the villains with their own loot, the brilliant dazzling diamond, and our trio leads them on a wild chase through the big Hollywood dream factory while being held at gunpoint by the double-dealing detective Slade.

The chase culminates in a climactic scramble on a Busby Berkeley set, with director Maxwell Moviola witnessing Betty, Bimbo, and Koko outwitting each the villainous Slade and Green. "Brilliant, Brilliant!" cries Maxwell, and Betty's hopes of stardom seem to be realized but it turns out that a goldfish from the fishbowl is what caught the director's attention, and Betty, Koko and Bimbo are left in the dark.

However, a pleading singing telegram from a reformed Diner Dan brings them back to the old diner, where they are now given free musical rein and the customers are regaled with a final musical number in which Betty sings of lessons learned and values re-affirmed with the song "You Don't Have to Be a Star to Be a Star.

"The best place to wait for your big break is with your friends!" Betty concludes.

Quotes

  • Betty Boop: "Ooo! Betty Boop at your service!"
  • Female Hippo: "That Betty Boop is really sweet!"
  • Diner Dan: "Where dem plates! Speed it up! An watch the grill for me!"
  • Miss Green: "Remember Mr. Slade, I'm counting on you!"
  • Sam Slade: "That waitress and her pals are pretty entertaining"
  • Miss Green: "Sorry I can't stay to watch the show!"
  • Diner Dan: "I've had enough of you morons, your fired!"
  • Bimbo: "You mean like musical detectives?"
  • Betty Boop: "We don't know much about detecting but we could surely find out, right boys?"
  • Lola DaVille: "Miss Green, send an autographed photo to that Clown."
  • Lola DaVille: "Seize that woman! How dare you steal my treasure you little guttersnipe!"
  • Lola DaVille: "Somebody call the police!"
  • Betty Boop: "That's not my gun, somebody with a big nose mask put it in my hand!"
  • Lola DaVille: "A likely story..."
  • Betty Boop: "Oh, no... but I didn't do anything honest..."
  • Betty Boop: "Koko, Bimbo help me!"
  • Betty Boop: "I'm innocent, innocent do you hear me!"
  • Lt. Snuffer: "Listen sister you better sing and fast!"
  • Betty Boop: "Why you're Miss Green!"
  • Miss Green: "Oh, yes...THE MOUSY ONE!"
  • Miss Green: "Why you little!"
  • Sam Slade: "I'll fill ya with lead!"
  • Betty Boop: "That nutsy-doopsy!"

Characters

Cast & Crew

  • Melissa Fahn as Betty Boop
  • Michael Bell
  • Lucille Bliss as Miss Green
  • Hamilton Camp as Maxwell Moviola
  • Jodi Carlisle as Lola DaVille
  • Bill Farmer as Prop Man
  • Toby Gleason
  • Gregory Jones
  • Randi Merzon
  • Roger Rose
  • James Ward
  • Japhet Asher
  • Bruce L Paisner
  • Stephen Wells (Executive Producer)
  • Tim Berglund (Art Director)
  • John Hays (Animation Director)
  • Gregory Jones (Music)
  • Dennis Green (Lyrics)
  • Ali Marie Matheson (Writer)
  • Heather Selick (Producer)
  • George Evelyne (Director)
  • Richard Fleischer (Creative Consultant)
  • (Colossal) Pictures 
  • George Evelyn
  • John Hays 
  • Timothy Berglund
  • Bud Luckey 
  • Tom Bertino
  • Pam Stalker
  • Karl Torge
  • Gordon Clark 
  • Susan Crossley
  • Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. (Cuckoo¹s Nest) 
  • Wan-Ling Chiu 
  • Ti-Han Lo 
  • Yin-Chu Wu
  • Wen-Huang Liu 
  • Der-Long Yeh 
  • Mei-Chih Chu 
  • Pao-Hsiu Chen
  • Yueh-Lan Ho 
  • Sheng-Ya Chang
  • Katie Rauh (Production Supervisor)
  • Amy Capen (Production Coordinator)
  • Renee Skoll (Producer Assistant)
  • Carol Brzezinski (Editor)
  • Edgar Burksen (Edior)
  • Lori Muttersbach (Assistant Editor)
  • Ted Chavalas (Sound Effects) 
  • Bill Westwick (Negative Cutter)
  • Elaine Craig (Voice Casting)
  • Ron Knight (Voice Casting)
  • Michele Linfante (Voice Coach)
  • TRACK READER Skip Craig
  • Buzzy's (Voice Recording)
  • VIDEO POST PRODUCTION 
  • MIX One Pass Inc. 
  • Russian Hill Recording 
  • EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION 
  • James R. McGee, Jr. (Production Executive)
  • Austin Hearst (Production Executive)
  • Greg Jones (Music)

Music

Gallery

Trivia

  • The film was released on the 25th of June in 1989.
  • The singing and dancing flapper squealing "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" takes on the wacky and wonderful world of Hollywood and its moguls, mansions and mysteries in this new animated adventure set in the 1930s, where she plays detective and gets caught up in a web of comedy and suspense.
  • Animation historian Karl Cohen interviewed the director, who stated: "In this story, she is the classic Betty-who wears her skirts pretty short and shows a little garter, but is still very sweet and innocent." The most obvious difference between the classic 30s Boop cartoons and our TV special is color. In our production, the characters are rendered in wonderful, post-modern candy colors, with backgrounds that are subtle pastels."
  • Also known as The Betty Boop Movie Mystery.
  • Bimbo and Koko the Clown appear as Betty's best friends.
  • Bimbo is colored blue.
  • Celebrities who were considered for the project declined the part, thus casting director Elaine Craig was in a desperate attempt to cast a replacement for Betty Boop. Craig pestered secretary Melissa Fahn to make an audition tape, audition and take on the role. Fahn however did not audition in time. Craig contacted her and told her to send "ANYTHING". Fahn sang "I Wanna Be Loved By You" in her audition and after that was hired and it later opened doors for her in the voice-over industry.
  • After this Melissa Fahn later became "The Official Voice of Betty Boop" up until her retirement in the late 2000s.
  • According to a 1987 article Bernadette Peters was also considered for the role but did not accept the offer.
  • Cyndi Lauper was the first choice to voice Betty in this cartoon. Lauper eventually won the role in 1987 but showed very little interest. Lauper was not committed and she later quit and was indefinitely dropped from the project.
  • The film was later sold to the Disney Channel in 1993.

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