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Betty Boop: Dizzy Dishes (1930)

1930 · Animation · 6 min

  • Animation

Synopsis

Bimbo, working in a nightclub, is distracted by a singer on stage: the first appearance of the character who became Betty Boop, here unnamed and drawn as a poodle with floppy ears.

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Running time
6 minutes

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★★★★ · Betty's first apperance · BoopBoopaddoop · 2010-11-24

Betty's first apperance She is nameless & is some sort of canine and is obviously a Caricature of plump 1920s singer & actress Helen Kane. obviously from her first apperance she becomes more populer her male counter-part bimbo the dog & ends up gets her own series. Margie Hines provided the voice for Betty in the first cartoons. The perceived wisdom is that she was still part-dog and the combination was rather ugly. She's not as carefully drawn as in later cartoons so a bit freakish in her facial expressions, but still fully formed as Betty despite that she has puppy-ears, all of the cafe's…

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