Betty Boop: Animated Sex Appeal
2973. BETTY BOOP: ANIMATED SEX APPEAL (1930-1936-USA).
1. BARNACLE BILL (1930-USA). With BETTY BOOP. A talking and walking(!) ship starts one of Betty’s earliest screen appearances. Her character is not yet fully developed (she has long ears like a cocker spaniel!). She’s courted by Barnacle Bill and competes with some sexy dancing mermaids.
2. A HUNTING WE WILL GO (1932-USA). With BETTY BOOP, BIMBO, KOKO. Here, Betty has blossomed into the Boopster we all know and love. She plays a golddigger. The sexual allure which helped to make her one of the most popular cartoon characters shines through. She is joined by Koko The Clown, who was created by the Fleischer brothers back in lhe 1920s and by Bimbo, a dog-like creature who pre-dated Betty as the Fleischers’ first talking- era cartoon star.
3. IS MY PALM READ (1933-USA). With BETTY BOOP, BIMBO, KOKO. A combination of blatant sexuality and sly innuendo were key pans of most every pre-Production Code Betty Boop cartoon. Here, Betty visits Professor Bimbo, a seer who starts by “baring the naked truth of her baby days!”
4. CRAZY INVENTIONS (1933-USA). With BETTY BOOP, BIMBO, KOKO. Sex is the star of this cartoon in which Betty turns heads and opens eyes while playing a calliope at a carnival.
5. A LANGUAGE ALL MY OWN (1935-USA). With BETTY BOOP. Shades of Amelia Earhart! Betty is as much liberated woman as sex object as she ends a stage performance by becoming an aviatrix who soars through the skies to Japan.
6. MAKING STARS (1935-USA). With BETTY BOOP. Betty is a headliner herself as she is garbed in top hat and tails and introduces several “stars of the future.”
7. A SONG A DAY (1936-USA). With BETTY BOOP, GRAMPY. Betty is a sexy nurse who tends to sick giraffes, hippos and billygoats. Her friend Grampy, who comes to her assistance, is a lovable old buzzard,
8. BETTY BOOP and GRAMPY (1935-USA). With BETTY BOOP, GRAMPY. All eyes are glued to Betty as she struts her stuff down the street while on her way to a party at Grampy’s pad. Need we say more?
56 minutes total. Cartoons