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Here’s 17 free Betty Boop Cartoons set up in a nice Boop playlist.

Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9, 1930 in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes, the sixth installment in Fleischer’s Talkartoon series. She was little like her soon-to-be-famous self, however. 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 singer and contract player at Paramount Pictures, the studio that distributed Fleischer’s cartoons. In keeping with common practice, Natwick made his new character an animal, in this case, a French poodle. Beginning with this cartoon, the character’s voice was performed by several different voice actresses until Mae Questel got the role, in 1931, and kept it for the rest of the series.

There were only two films that are known, where Betty was featured in color. ‘Poor Cinderella’ and ‘Crazy Town’ (1932). ( Although she appeared in the color feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Betty appeared in her traditional black and white. Betty made light of it in the film, saying work may have been slow since cartoons went to color, but she still had what it took.