Betty’s multitude of nutty roles during her decade-long heyday is cleverly addressed head-on in a snappy opening number in the all-black-and-white, lingo-spouting, cartoon world of the Fleischer ...

August 9 marks the 90th anniversary of Betty Boop’s first appearance in a cartoon short produced by the Austrian Jewish animator Max Fleischer. Betty was eventually voiced by a Bronx-born Jewish ...

Who better then to give life to Betty Boop, the intoxicating character that gives Boop! The Musical its name, that classic cartoon Jazz Age flapper with the funny voice and a head big and round ...

Instead of stiff movement, cartoon characters in Fleischer Studios cartoons suddenly could swing and sway like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong or Betty Boop, an affectionate caricature of a maybe ...

Once crowned the “Queen of Cartoons,” Betty Boop continues her reign over eighty years later. Celebrate her birthday with us, check out this Complex visual history of Betty Boop.

Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike ...

The show begins in black-and-white in the 1930s and I could not for the life of me understand why the behind-the-camera characters spoke flatly like they were in a Betty Boop cartoon, not making ...

There’s no cursing and nothing’s offensive, as you might expect from a musical adapted from a cartoon character. But Betty Boop, the 1930s icon the show is based on, was once considered too ...

Gorgeous ‘Boop!’ builds a colorful, tuneful, graceful world for cartoon heroine While plot and supporting characters need more attention, Broadway-bound musical has spectacular songs and a ...

With Mitchell’s involvement, a book by Bob Martin, music by David Foster and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, Boop! The Musical had an impressive Broadway pedigree, and a concept: Cartoon Betty is ...

Betty Boop ventures from her black-and-white home to technicolor New York City. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman “Boop”’s plot, like its title, is monosyllabic. A to Boop.