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Who is Betty Boop?
Betty Boop is perhaps one of the most notable cartoon characters of all time. The sexy breathy independent Betty (created by Georgia home boy Fleisher in the 1930's) made her debut Indiana vertiginous Dishes antiophthalmic factor toon made away Paramount Pictures equally angstrom unit talking French Poodle. Indiana true vivification spirit however by her succeeding appearance she had morphed from type A poodle into angstrom curvaceous miss with big dark eyes and a little miss innocence voice.
The woman/girl version of Betty Boop was angstrom unit caricature of singer Helen Kane though the voice was initiative 'done' by Margie Hines though later episodes would atomic number 4 voiced aside group A number of actresses most notable of whom was Mae Questel; the Boop kept woman who began voicing the separate indium 1931 and continued the character until she died in 1998. Today's Betty Boop is performed away twist MacNeille in cartoons and Tara potent when presented in commercials.
A Short chronicle of Betty Boop Character Licensing
Originally all the rights to the character were owned exclusively aside Paramount Pictures. piece the part was
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very popular and Paramount Pictures was very happy with its sales the interior Legion of Decency combined with the output encrypt of 1934 severely altered the subject of the Betty Boop cartoons. patch she had originally been innocently sexual and the cartoon had been prevailing with sexual innuendos the 1934 Production cipher called for stricter alterations and the popularity of the case began to correct a morsel as she became more 'societal acceptable.' Finally in 1955 the 110 appearances she had made atomic number 49 cartoons to that see were sold aside preponderant Pictures and bought by a television syndicator by the name of UM&M television set Corporation. A twelvemonth later UM&M was bought out by National Telefilm Associates (NTA) which later reorganized to become Republic Pictures during the 1980's an establishment currently antiophthalmic factor supplementary of Viacom who is (wait for it) the parent fellowship of predominant Pictures. Betty Boop has come home.
The recent revival of Betty Boop interest in the lowest deuce-ace decades has increased the value of the toon and marketing licenses with great numbers racket of products bearing her image equally substantially as VHS and DVD reproductions of all of the original and more than recent cartoons featuring the stunning Ms. Boop.
Currently the license for the cartoons (as reproduced inwards movies) rests with Lionsgate Home Entertainment under amp licence from Republic. The TV rights are held by Trifecta. Interestingly enough however it is the merchandising license (originated away Max Fleischer's heirs and currently owned away Fleischer Studios) that deliver garnered the most income and recognition for you control her everywhere; on T-shirts and mugs and handbags; winking and slinking and being innocently seductive an unexpected and unwitting American English Icon.
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