But Betty Boop, the 1930s icon the show is based on, was once considered far too sexy and risque for wholesome and impressionable eyes. Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion ...

Most impressively for the newcomer, she’s h anded the tricky task of bringing to life a silly and largely irrelevant cultural icon — the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop — and t ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...

You might remember Betty Boop if you’re really old. She’s the curvaceous icon from the 1930s that gave little boys boners before they knew what sex was all about. “Boop!” is the new ...

Caruso has been drawing Betty Boop ever since. His Betty Boops have graced T-shirts, baseball caps, enamel pins, stickers, posters, coffee mugs, throw pillows, phone cases, keychains, socks ...

What’s not to love about Betty Boop, U.S.-based international ambassador? It’s a rhetorical question, folks. She cannot be fired. Vastly improved from its Chicago tryout — Mitchell being a ...

At top, Betty Juranek of Fairfield wears a Betty Boop brooch, one of many Betty Boop items around the convention. NORTH BEND, Neb. — It was disconcerting, at first, the way a group of nice women ...

What’s not to love about Betty Boop, U.S.-based international ambassador? It’s a rhetorical question, folks. She cannot be fired. Vastly improved from its 2023 Chicago tryout, and Mitchell ...

Performances in N.Y.C. From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop! Credit ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...