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It’s been a long time since we saw Betty Boop, boop-boop-a-doop. Originally created by Grim Natwick, at the request of Max Fleischer, in the 1930s. She became a ‘pop sensation’ and appeared in 90 theatrical cartoons.
Betty was a Jazz Age flapper, yeah, I had to look that up as well. A flapper is a lady from the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts, had bobbed hair, and a disdain for ‘codes of decent behaviour’. I think today they are all slappers.
Betty Boop is also credited as the first animated sex symbol. This was pre-Internet days; you had to take what you could back then.
She was said to be inspired by Clara Bow, an American actress from the silent era. Helen Kane was also thought to be the inspiration. Kane sued Fleischer over the signature “Boop Oop a Doop” line.
Clara Bow and Helen Kane
According to Variety, a new feature film is on the way. Quinta Brunson, whom I again had to look up, is going to star as Betty Boop in a new movie. The story, at the moment:
Follows animator Max Fleischer as he creates and navigates the evolution of Betty Boop, one of the world’s first animated icons, while grappling with creative and commercial pressures as his creation begins to take on a life of its own.
Will this bring Betty Boop into the 21st century? Interestingly, according to Wiki, Betty was once described in a court case in 1934, as “combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable.”
She might be more 21st-century than we thought. A later comment also says about her: “a flapper girl with more heart than brains.”
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