Even her relationship with Bimbo the dog was deemed inappropriate.
The innuendos and flirtations that had been part of Betty's makeup were ditched. RELATED: Why Has Disney Never Made a Feature-Length Mickey Mouse Film?īetty Boop was forced into wearing acceptable tops and full-length skirts. Betty, the first heroine to tackle sexual harassment in entertainment history (as per the previously cited Vogue article) by slapping a crooked producer in a 1932 short, would be cleverly used as a callback in a New Yorker cover for a 2017 piece regarding sexual harassment and abuse in Hollywood at the onset of the #metoo movement, dismayed at how little has changed. But Betty held her own, successfully defending herself from these advances time and again.
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She wasn't free from men who openly tried to force unwanted sexual interactions, as was regretfully a product of the time (even Mickey Mouse wasn't above forcing himself on Minnie in the 1928 Disney short Plane Crazy). She was liberated, unashamed, and free, taking on careers like as a pilot, a racecar driver, and even successfully ran for president. However, despite her male gaze sexualization, Betty Boop defied the female stereotyping that befell other female cartoon characters.
She was immensely popular, with an article from 1932 hailing her as the " most popular personage on the screen today." There's little doubt that Betty was designed as a sex symbol, with a baby doll face, big eyes, a short skirt, hoop earrings, and a visible garter on one leg, an " archetypal flapper, the speakeasy Girl Scout with a heart of gold." Her high-pitched, coquettish voice and her "Boop-Oop-A-Doop" catchphrase, provided by Mae Questel from 1931 on, just added to the innocent vamp persona that Betty personified. Within a year, she became the Betty Boop we're most familiar with, the flapper girl who is the first all-human cartoon heroine and the first as a headliner of an animated series. Betty Boop's first appearance came in 1930's short Dizzy Dishes, where she was introduced as an anthropomorphic French poodle, the girlfriend of Bimbo, a cartoon dog, in Fleischer Studios' Talkartoon series.
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