

In fact, at the start of her career, BETTY BOOP WAS A DOG. This is the popular animation featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra Betty interacts with real life characters in this historic retro.Ī stray kitten called Myron wanders into Betty Boop's house.

This cartoon is a combination of film and animation in a chess gameįeatures Cab sings the title "The Old Man of the Mountain"Īn interview with Max Fleischer the creator of Betty Boop.
BETTY BOOP TELEVISION SHOW MOVIE
Betty Boop: The Movie (Future-Release) Change.This Betty Boop cartoon has a m emorable rendition of "St James Infirmary" by Cab Calloway.Flipanimation (Film Information Source).The musical storyboard scene of the proposed film used to be archived at moorestudiosinc.In one of the concept art sketches, Betty Boop can be seen doing Marilyn Monroe's classic pose.Then, due to the great profits earned by Betty Boop products, Harvey Publications attempted to sue for a percentage, claiming rights based on the original Paramount sale in 1959.
BETTY BOOP TELEVISION SHOW SERIES
In 1996, Richard was shopping around a concept for a Betty Boop television series where she was an intergalactic flight attendant at Fred Wolf Films during this time and saw the character design book which had been done in France, and it was very well drawn, yet faithful to the original style of the characters. But this never came to fruition due to a conflict in budgets and licenses.It was during this time that great research and sorting out of the original contracts were made to establish and formulate the ownership of Betty Boop. Betty was licensed for the acclaimed, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and a Betty Boop feature was planned, only to be canceled after an administrative changeover at MGM. Richard, who was then retired from directing films, devoted the rest of his life to the continued expansion of Betty Boop products, which also included one more animated special, Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery, produced in San Francisco by Collasal Pictures. Into the 1980's, the mantel was passed onto Richard Fleischer as his sister had become too ill to continue on with the enterprise.In the storyboard art by Fred Cline Betty can be seen performing "Where Are You?" at the Roosevelt Hotel.The Betty Boop Movie, Where are You? (Canned Feature Film, 1993) Everybody Needs a Star/ Where Are You? ( Sue Raney).A Betty Boop impersonator even dropped in the studios. Shelley Long, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Helen Hunt, Virginia Madsen, Ned Beatty. People who had auditioned for the film were as follows, Chris Penn, Terri Garr, Bud Cort, Paul Reubens then recently Florida porn theatre arrest. Bernadette Peters was to have provided the voice for Betty in the film but before the recording sessions started, the film was abandoned. Sue Raney stands in for Betty and Jimmy Rowles stands in for Betty's father Benny Boop. In the little storyboard in the link above Betty Boop performs a song called "Where Are You" with her estranged father Benny Boop. Jazz was a major part of most of the old Betty Boop cartoon shorts. In 1993, the Zanuck Company began pre-production on a Betty Boop feature to be done through MGM Studios, Richard "Dick" Fleischer, who was the Son of Max Fleischer of the Fleischer Studios wanted to make a feature out of his father's star character "Betty Boop" but those plans were later canceled. Jimmy Rowles as Benny Boop (Pilot/Storyboard).Bernadette Peters as Betty Boop (Cancelled).Sue Raney as Betty Boop (Pilot/Storyboard).
