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Danielle Marie Lang

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Marie Danielle Lang
Sandra Marie Fox
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Sandy Fox as Betty Boop:

Adult Sandy Fox Pretending To Be Child Shirley Star Temple

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 (Sandy Fox as Shirley Temple.)

Sandy Fox Voice of Betty Boop LOL...

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 (Sandy Fox impersonating a child.)

Marie Danielle (born July 13, 1963) is a voice actress who provides the voice for Betty Boop[1] in commercials, she is better known for her stage name Sandy Fox. Fox started her career as a "Betty Boop Impersonator" for Universal Studios Hollywood.

She joined the Orlando Magic's initial dance squad, the Magic Girls, in 1988 and spent three years with them. In 1988, with Tommy Tune she appeared on the TV special Walt Disney World 4th of July Spectacular impersonating a 1930s child star, Shirley Temple. She danced, and sang "On The Good Ship Lollipop", "Puttin' On the Ritz" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

In 1991, she shared the role as a "Betty Boop" character impersonator at the Universal Studios theme park with Dena Drotar and Suzanne LaRusch.[2] Fox was an "in-person" Betty, and also impersonated Helen Kane the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" girl for the 1920s jazz group called The Coconut Manor Orchestra.

One day Fox was working at a bar and a casting agent came up to her and told her that her nasally, high pitch voice reminded him of Mae Questel, the original voice of Betty Boop. And that Universal Studios Hollywood were seeking a "Betty Boop" impersonator for the theme park, and that she should audition. Fox auditioned for the role in Hollywood, and was given the role, as they were desperately seeking a Betty Boop. Betty Boop at the time was a "new attraction" to the theme park.

Around the time of working for Universal Studios, she became inspired to do voice-over when she attended a voice acting course with Susan Blu. Fox managed to obtain a role as "background vocals" on the hit TV show The Simpsons.

During the 1990s, she made numerous "in-person" TV appearances as Betty. In 1992, Fox appeared on a VHS souvenir video[3] as Betty Boop in person at Universal Studios Hollywood, LaRusch who shared the role of Betty Boop with Fox, also appeared in that VHS video as Mae West, and Samir Kamoun as Charlie Chaplin. Fox later appeared on the TV shows Good Morning America and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.

The Betty Boop Movie was in development circa 1993 set for a 1994 release. Broadway star Bernadette Peters was initially what producers had in mind. Peters however she did not accept any offer to voice Betty in animated cartoons or portray Betty on Broadway.

For three weeks they held casting sessions. According to Steve Moore, Universal Studios impersonator Sandy Fox dropped into the studio on producer Steve Leiva for what he called the "ill-fated" film, and Fox auditioned for the role of Betty Boop, but Fox lost out to Mary Kay Bergman.

Moore referenced Fox as "the woman dressed as Betty Boop"[4] and he attempted to run around the corner to avoid her, as he thought "she had returned" and that it was another gag or set up. He ended up bumping not into Fox but right into Roger Daltrey.

It was written on Mary Kay Bergman's website that she won the role of Betty Boop. Bergman was quoted as, "recreating Betty Boop's original voice with perfection." The film was not made, and was eventually canned due to studio head changes and licensing rights disagreements with the Fleischer Studios representatives.

Bergman was best known as Adriana Caselotti's voice-double for Disney's iconic character Snow White.

In 1996, Fox appeared at a Universal Studios "Meet & Greet"[5] as Betty Boop with Beetlejuice and Frankenstein, to meet and greet the cast of a "Fox Broadcasting Company" network show.

Fox made her initial "vocal debut" as Betty Boop sound-a-like for the Universal Studios "Betty Boop Store" at Orlando in 1998. For the store, she recorded small dialogue and songs such as "Don't Take My Boop-Oop-a-Doop Away," "I Wanna Be Loved By You," "That's Why I'm Happy," and "Do Something".

In 1998 she officially replaced Mae Questel for Universal and recorded dialogue using an imitation of Questel for Olive Oyl for the ride Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges. Universal Studios called her back, and Fox later recorded vocal dialogue and songs both Betty Boop and Olive Oyl for Pandemonium Cartoon Circus in 1999.

Fox changes her "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" routine, and extends her "Boop" with an "Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Da". A form of scat-singing, possibly coined from Fred Flintstone's, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo" with a mixture of Helen Kane's "Aba Daba Honeymoon" song. On Fox's older website "Sandy Fox World" launched in 2000 by Sandy Fox Productions, she once could be seen imitating the "Aba Daba Honeymoon" song and Helen Kane in a skit titled Anna and the Ape.

Melissa Fahn provided the voice for the majority of "Betty Boop" ventures throughout the 2000s up until her retirement during the late 2000s, since that era Betty Boop had not been seen in any animated features. Wendy Wynman Engels briefly took over the role when King Features Syndicate were looking for a voice. Many years later Betty Boop was later revived by Lancôme. Fox made her official "animated vocal" debut as Betty Boop, in cartoon animation form, in the 2012 Lancôme Paris Star Eyes commercial, and since then has officially been voicing Betty Boop in animated projects.

Fox's second project was an "audition reel" for King Features titled King Features Holiday Greeting in 2012 as Olive Oyl and Betty Boop. From 2015 to 2016 she became the official singing voice of Betty Boop for Chantilly Lane, and voiced Betty for a total of five plush dolls. In 2017 she voiced Betty for Zac Posen's animated short to promote his dresses Betty Goes A - Posen, Betty in person was portrayed by model Crystal Renn.

In 2018 she provided the voice of Betty for the Torrid x Project Runway x Betty Boop Collection and Project Runway. She provided Betty's voice in a 2022 Dr. Martens x Betty Boop commercial. Fox, who presently voices Betty with Cindy Robinson and Lauren "Coco" Cohn, has been used the most frequently of the three. It was revealed that starting in November of 2023, actress Jasmine Amy Rogers would play the new reimagined version of the live-action Betty Boop character in The Betty Boop Musical on Broadway.

Quotes

  • Sandy Fox: "I've been impersonating Betty Boop since 1991." (2015)
  • Sandy Fox: "When I was 18, I was discovered in like a bar, I was a hostess, and he said you sound just like Helen Kane, and I said yes, I sing. So I auditioned for a 1920s orchestra and sang a lot of songs for Betty Boop." (2015)
  • Sandy Fox: "In 1991, there was a job position in Hollywood at Universal Studios for Betty Boop." (2017)
  • Sandy Fox: "It was a character for the park, and to go on tour." (2017)
  • Sandy Fox: "I'm like, who in the world is Helen Kane? She was one of the many voices of Betty Boop. But she was also like a pop singer, like the Madonna of the 1920s." (2017)
  • Sandy Fox: "My voice and likeness had to be approved by King Features Syndicate and the Hearst Corporation." (2017)
  • Sandy Fox: "I did the live character in Hollywood, and then I ended up voicing Betty Boop at the show, Betty Boop store, and all the content in Universal Studios Florida." (2020)
  • Sandy Fox: "I created the 'FIRST' living Betty Boop for Universal Studios in Hollywood. And when then they needed more 'Betty Boop' for like commercials, and so I did a Lancôme commercial." (2023)
  • Sandy Fox: "I was the 'ORIGINAL' in-person Betty Boop." (2024)

Voiceover Credits 

  • Betty Boop Store & Toon Lagoon as Betty Boop, Olive Oyl and Thing 1 and Thing 2 (1998)
  • Pandemonium Cartoon Circus as Betty Boop and Olive Oyl (1999)
  • Lancôme Paris Star Eyes (2012)
  • Holiday Greeting (2012)
  • Chantilly Lane (2015 - 2016)
  • Betty Goes A Posen (2017)
  • Mini Golf Madness (2017)
  • Torrid (2018)
  • Project Runway All Stars (2018)
  • Dr. Martens (2022)

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Trivia

  • Though Fox has speaks using a "cute high-pitched nasally voice," her real voice is deeper and sounds more womanly. She chooses to speak using her baby-talk instead of using her real tone. She frequently voices babies, young girls and boys, and other animeesque characters in cartoons using her baby voice. It is likely that after Fox portrayed Betty in person for so many years, that she got used to speaking like a baby doll.
  • Fox looks somewhat identical to Megan Mullally's character "Karen" from Will & Grace, and is often mistaken for Karen.
  • Fox does not like her name in a "tie-up" with Mae Questel. In Questel's prime she was a professional "Booper" who "out-Booped" Helen Kane. A 2012 news report called "Betty Is Back!"[6] said that said that Fox's "helium squeak" is no match for Questel's "Boop-Boop-Be-Doop". Questel was the most famous and in history is the "definitive" voice of Boop. Questel's notability even surpasses that of Margie Hines, the 1st Betty Boop who created the character's voice in 1930 for "Dizzy Dishes".
  • It would not be fair to pit Fox against Questel, due to Questel's expertise in the original cartoons.
  • Cindy Robinson the other official voice of Betty Boop's take on voicing Betty Boop in 2017 was, "Betty's been done, she's been cast. And you're never ever gonna make your name, being someone's second."
  • She once went by her middle name Marie Danielle in real life, and or Sandra Marie Danielle.
  • Fox voiced a parody of Betty Boop for Cartoon Network called Owlie Boop.
  • According to Cindy Robinson, King Features Syndicate always have more than one person doing the voice role for Betty, just in case the other(s) actresses are unavailable.
  • To create the voice for Olive Oyl, she had to imitate Mae Questel.
  • Sandy Fox is a fan of Helen Kane, and runs her own Helen Kane fan club on social media.
  • Fox and her husband are also therapists, and they run the Zen TV® Network [7]
  • In 2017, Sandy Fox left a brief, irate message for the Betty Boop Wikia.[8]
  • A list of Fox's quotes can be found here.[9]

See Also

  1. ↑ Voices of Betty Boop
  2. ↑ Suzanne LaRusch, Hollywood-based Actress Comedian
  3. ↑ Universal Studios Hollywood: VHS Souvenir Video
  4. ↑ https://flipanimation.blogspot.com/2013/06/whos-next.html
  5. ↑ Universal Studios Hollywood: Meet & Greet
  6. ↑ https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/2012/sep/26/betty-boop-is-back/
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@Inspiration411/about
  8. ↑ Sandy Fox Responds To Betty Boop Fandom
  9. ↑ Sandy Fox Quotes
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