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Miss Kane, however, was outraged by the animated character and claimed in a 1934 lawsuit that the Fleischers had limited her earning potential by stealing her distinctive singing style. Her 'French doll' figure was modeled after Mae West's, and she featured a distinctive spit curl hairdo and a singing style inspired by popular chanteuse Helen Kane ('the Boop Boop a-Doop Girl'). Subsequent appearances reveal her gradual evolution into a fully human form. In her first screen appearance she was cast as a nightclub singer attempting to win the affection of then-Fleischer star, Bimbo, an anthropomorphized dog.

With a heart of gold-already something of an anachronism in 1930.' Although her appearance rooted her to the Jazz Age, Betty Boop's popularity remained high throughout the decade of the Great Depression, as she was animation's first fully developed and liberated female character.įor a character that would come to personify overt female sexuality, the original version of Betty Boop created by animator Grim Natwick was a somewhat grotesque amalgamation of human and dog features. According to animation historian Charles Solomon, Betty Boop 'was the archetypal flapper, the speakeasy Girl Scout Unlike Disney's Silly Symphonies, which emphasized fine, life-like drawings and innocent themes, the Fleischer films featuring Betty Boop were characterized by their loose, metamorphic style and more adult situations designed to appeal to the grown members of the movie-going audience. From her debut as a minor character in the 1930 Talkartoons short feature 'Dizzy Dishes,' she quickly became the most popular character created for the Fleischer Studio, a serious animation rival to Walt Disney.

Betty boop dog character series#

Betty Boop, the first major female animated screen star, epitomized the irresistible flapper in a series of more than one hundred highly successful cartoons in the 1930s.