Betty Boop Meets Dracula

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Wed May 28, 2008 4:40 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7rB_ecU4E

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:01 am

Who woulda thought Dracula was a boop man?

djm

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:06 pm

Good link, there's a bunch of Betty Boops on there! I like this one-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZOXF83 ... re=related

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:13 am

Talk about surreal. Flirt with YMCA mannequins, then get attacked by Dracula. Fritz Lang meets Busby Berkley. Yikes.

Great stuff, cowtime (and your flapper links). Apparently Minnie the Moocher was eventually banned by the Hays Code for the drug references.

I came across this while reading about singer Helen Kane, the original "Boop-Boop-Be-Doop" girl. After her sudden rise on Broadway and in film, someone held a Helen Kane impersonator contest which Mae Questel won. Questel was then hired by Max Fleischer to voice his new Betty Boop character, capitalizing on the Helen Kane craze. Kane sued for infringement of her persona and lost, and her career fell quickly. She booped her last boop. Questel went on to do Popeye's Olive Oyl, too.

Here's Helen Kane in 1929 in full Betty Boop mode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1e3j30NnEs

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:45 pm

Ain'tcha!!!

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:42 am

MTGuru wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7rB_ecU4E

Yowza! I'd never seen Betty Boop outside of the cartoons. That was quite a
short skirt for the times! If you ask me, these talkies are gonna ruin Hollywood!

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