bettyboop

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Betty Boop

• 1930

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Betty Boop

• Betty Boop character was
• Fashioned after a 20s singer/actress Helen Kane
• Also fashioned after Clara Bow, actress of 20s
• whose accent kept her out of Talkies

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Helen Kane

• Vaudeville Princess
• On Broadway as actress, dancer, and singer
• Singing skat, came up with boop-oop-a-doop

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Clara Bow

• Silent Film Actress
• The It girl
• Usually cast as a waitress, a manicurist, or
  salesgirl.
• She always got her man
• From Brooklyn, born 1905
• Unwanted child, mom mentally ill
• Borrowed 50 cents to enter a beauty contest and
  won.

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Betty Boop

• Did not start off human
• Was a poodle
• 1932 given her own show
• First sex symbol cartoon
• Debut in Dizzy Dishes
• Short Run ended 1939
• Existed for over 70 yrs
• 1933 her garter was banned
• 1988 in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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Betty Boop

• Cartoon
• symbol of Depression
• Adult audience
• Had flapper qualities
• Was 16 years old
• Had a dog Pudgy
• Banned in Philadelphia

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• In1932 Helen filed a 250,000 infringement
  lawsuit against Max Fleischer for exploiting her
  personality and image.
• Supreme Court Judge "Edward J. McGoldrick" ruled
  "The plaintiff has failed to sustain either cause
  of action by proof of sufficient probative
  force." In his opinion, the baby technique of
  singing did not originate with Kane.