This was also the first cartoon to be officially part of the Betty Boop series and not a Talkartoon.īetty's development was still incomplete, however. Although the Screen Songs cartoon Betty Coed referred to the character as Betty in 1931, she was not officially christened "Betty Boop" until the 1932 short Stopping the Show that same year. She usually served as studio star Bimbo's girlfriend.
In individual cartoons she was called "Nancy Lee" and "Nan McGrew". She appeared in ten cartoons as a supporting character, a flapper girl with more heart than brains. Her floppy poodle ears became hoop earrings, and her poodle fur became a bob haircut. The animator redesigned her in 1932 to be recognizably human in the cartoon Any Rags. Natwick himself later conceded that Betty's original look was quite ugly. Beginning with this cartoon, the character's voice was performed by several different voice actresses until Mae Questel got the role and kept it for the rest of the series in 1931. In keeping with common practice, Natwick made his new character an animal, in this case, a French poodle. Grim Natwick, a veteran animator of both Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks' studios, was largely responsible for creating the character, which he modeled on Helen Kane, a famous singer, who also performed as an actress at Paramount Pictures, the studio that distributed Fleischer's cartoons. She was little like her soon-to-be-famous self, however. Betty Boop made her first appearance on Augin the cartoon Dizzy Dishes, the sixth installment in Fleischer's Talkartoon series.
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