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Sally Swing



Name:

Sally Swing


Age:

16


Gender:

Female


Birthplace:

1701 N.W. 30 Ave., Miami, Florida


Nationality:

American


Sexual Orientation:

Heterosexual


Race:

Caucasian


Religion:

Roman Catholic


Hair Color:

Blonde


Eye Color:

Blue


Occupation:

Band Leader


Sally Swing Betty Grable

Sally Swing makes her first and last appearance in the Betty Boop cartoon titled Sally Swing.

The character was a failed attempt to create a new character like Betty Boop based on the emerging swing music style and just as Betty Boop was designed to look and sound like Helen Kane, Sally Swing bears some resemblance to Betty Grable. Paramount Pictures admitted that beautiful Grable was the inspiration behind Sally's finalized look, including the blonde hair and refined look.

Like Betty, Sally is 16-years-old. The Fleischer Studios also asked Martha Raye's permission to use her mannerisms for the character. Rose Marie[1] inspired part of the character. Marie was sought in a "Sally Swing" contest, which was a desperate hunt to find a "personality" to take on the role of the character.

Unfortunately, the character never caught on. Following an enticing introduction to the University and Betty Boop's Examination Room, the plot settles on Betty attempting to locate a good leader for a swing dance and who should she turn to but the hall's washer-woman.

Betty overhears Sally scat-singing while dusting and pulls her into her office, where she hires her to lead a swing band.

12[2] "Sally Swing" cartoons were in the works, but Swing's voice, Rose Marie, only recorded voice-over for six cartoons.[3] None of the six cartoons were made available to the public because the character was dropped after her debut failed.

After introducing Swing, Betty Boop was supposed to have passed away.[4] After Betty's death, Swing was supposed to have been the next successor. Ko-Ko was the first character in the series, followed by Bimbo, Betty, and finally Sally Swing. Spin-off ideas and concepts starring Grampy, Buzzy Boop, and Junior were all failures, much like the Sally Swing pilot episode.

Betty's entire series ended in 1939. Paramount Pictures and the Fleischer Studios accidentally announced that "Betty Boop" had died, before they knew the outcome of the spin-off.

Betty made an appearance in the 1939-set film "The Romance of Betty Boop" to bridge the void. implying that Betty did not pass away but rather retired. It's implied that Betty retired rather than died. But instead of being an established star in the entertainment industry, Betty is attempting to become well-known in that reboot.

In the mid-2010s, Sally Swing was brought back to life. Dynamite Comics worked hard to make Swing a prominent feature again. This Sally is dressed differently and is more outspoken. Her current persona is more mid-2010s than her former one.


Quotes

  • Betty Boop: "Prez? This is Betty--I've got just the girl to lead our swing band at the dance tonight... yes, yes..." (Sally Swing)
  • Betty Boop: "I know you're going to love this little swingster and singer of songs--introducing for your enjoyment, the lovely, delightful and talented Sally Swing!" (Sally Swing)
  • Sally Swing: "Oh, a dusting here and a dusting there and a dusting everywhere yeah yeah! Tisket da-da-da-da tasket!" (Sally Swing)
  • Betty Boop: "I think she's got something there! Oh you're just what I need come in here what are you doing scrubbing you should be cleaning up!" (Sally Swing)
  • Sally Swing: "Ah, swing it professor!" (Sally Swing)
  • Sally Swing: "I've been seeing the record producer Zach Platter! He's quite the gentleman... but to impress him, I told a real whopper!" (Dynamite Digital Comics)
  • Sally Swing: "Thanks, Betty -- you're a pal.'" (Dynamite Digital Comics)
  • Sally Swing: "B-but my voice can curdle milk! It burned Grampy's nostril hairs!" (Dynamite Digital Comics)
  • Sally Swing: "I've been looking for a change of scenery!" (Dynamite Digital Comics)
  • Sally Swing: "Ha!! I knew it! You've been mooning over Betty Boop since her first day on the job you little scamp!" (Dynamite Digital Comics)

Voiced by

Character Design

Sally Swing Concept Betty Boop Rose Marie Mazzetta

In the early design-sheet for the character Sally Swing, she is depicted as having red or jet black hair. The artists later narrowed the size of her head and gave her elfin eyes. Her hair was also changed from black to blonde to look more like Betty Grable.

Sally Swing Model and Inspirations

The several inspirations[5] behind the creation of Sally Swing.

Sally Sweet - Champion Comics (1939)

Sally Sweet 1939 Champion Comics

The Champion Comics series introduced Sally Sweet, a character similar to Sally Swing. The strip was launched by Harvey Publications a year after the 1938 animation, when band swing music was the most popular music in the United States between 1935 and 1946, commonly known as the big band era. Despite its popularity at the time, the music had been around since the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Harvey Company licensed[6] Betty Boop in the 1950s-1960s, but did nothing with the character, and later fought over who owned the rights to the character when Fleischer Studios attempted to buy the rights back in the 1970s. The third-party dispute over ownership of the "Betty Boop" series lasted decades. A.V.E.L.A. claimed that Harvey sold them the rights to the character, and when the Fleischers pursued legal action, claimed that Betty Boop was in the public domain. Resulting in yet another lawsuit. The Fleischers have declared and were able to reclaim ownership of the copyright to the character. The Fleischers were told by the Judge, that A.V.E.L.A. had not the Fleischer Studios word mark.

Dynamite Comics Revive Sally Swing (2016)


Sally Swing was revived in 2016 and is featured in the new Betty Boop comic strip[7] by Dynamite Comics alongside many other familiar faces from the Betty Boop cartoon series. Sally is more or less a background character and works at the Oop-A-Doop Club, where she collects glasses and works as a waitress. In comic #3 Sally is given a bigger role. She persuades Betty to dress up as her and sing to impress her boyfriend Zach Platter. Zach gets a little amorous with Betty which makes Sally a little jealous. Betty ends up impressing Zach Platter who raises a toast to their new relationship.

Sally has lost her ability to sing. According to Roger Langridge: "She sings horribly – granted, that runs counter to the cartoon she originally appeared in, but maybe she gets some singing lessons after this story. And it gives us an excuse to get Betty on stage later, so that’s all to the good. After all that, I thought Sally deserved a break – so I had her awful singing be a new source of attraction to Zach Platter, and sent those crazy kids off into the sunset together. Betty’s final point is from the heart – who knows what’s going to attract another human being? There’s someone out there for everyone…" Indicating Sally's new persona in the comic was to counter her appearance in the 1938 short, to bring more of a personality.

Rose Marie References Sally Swing (25/09/2017)

Rose Marie Sally

On the 25th of September in 2017, Rose Marie the original voice of Sally Swing referenced Sally Swing on her official Twitter account, stating it was her original character in the 1938 Betty Boop cartoon Sally Swing.

Trivia

  • Rose Marie provided the voice for Sally Swing at the age of 15.
  • The character Sally Swing was proposed as a replacement for Betty Boop.
  • Sally Swing more or less represented modern music and was a more modern type, she was a bobby soxer instead of a flapper girl.
  • Sally goes from her former dowdy self, swinging a feather duster in the air, to a raving beauty holding a conductor's baton. She now sports coiffed hair and a new outfit: a small, brimless hat perched on her blonde head, tight blouse, and a skirt that reaches to about mid-thigh, along with the requisite bobby sox and saddle shoes. She's far more realistically rendered than Betty, in every way possible (for one thing, she has a neck).
  • Sally bears a strong resemblance to the Fleischers' version of Lois Lane only she's a little more cartoony.
  • Sally is currently in a relationship with a record producer by the name of Zach Platter.

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