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Despite often being incorrectly called, and sometimes even known for, being the “first ever female main character of a cartoon” that title goes to Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay.

Among those at Fleischer Studios, many staff members found dog Betty to be ugly and even more uncanny the more she looked human over time and thus made her human and never wanted to go back to her dog self again.

Other fans may prefer dog Betty feeling it was more interesting and that her becoming human was more boring. The dog version also has a mixed reaction by fans with some preferring the human version of Betty as, aside from being more used to her, she is a fully developed character with an actual personality while the dog was just an underdeveloped prototype of what she would become that didn’t have a fully realized character or personality yet.

Betty Boop’s character as a dog often gets called “prototype Betty Boop” or “Proto-Betty Boop” by fans.

Grim Natwick also designed Disney’s Snow White and based her look off of Betty Boop.

While Max Fleischer may have developed Betty Boop into human Betty Boop and gave her several characteristics, along with some other animators developing her as well, it was Grim Natwick who is the true creator of Betty Boop and he was always consistent on how he came up with her.

However the character became popular and her popularity is the reason why she became a recurring character.

Betty Boop was originally just a simple parody and caricature of Helen Kane that was only meant to appear in a few shorts making a very limited appearance.

It seems that the person she was originally a parody of, Helen Kane, was considered to be “plump.”

Betty Boop’s exact weight and body type varies from chubby to skinny depending on the artist or animator with the only remaining consistency typically being that she is curvy.

She has had alternate depictions as a Native American, in one short when she was still a dog, and Samoan, which only appeared very little times but first appeared in a short that featured a musical group called the Royal Samoans and Betty’s animations were based on movements and rotoscoped from a female member called Lotamuru.

Betty Boop’s canon race and ethnicity is a white Ashkenazi Jewish girl.

Sandy Fox (Since 1999 official voice for King Syndicate worldwide).List of Actors and Actresses of Betty Boop She enjoys singing and dancing and is mainly a jazz singer. However, despite her sweetness she is not a complete push over and can be quite sassy. Although, she is very clumsy in her several appearances. Betty is quite naive and innocent and is not too bright, but isn’t completely dimwitted either showing some levels of wit. She is usually depicted in a red off-shoulder dress (which made her a sex-symbol), but she also has worn a wide variety of different outfits and often changes clothing.īetty Boop has a kind, sweet and happy-go-lucky personality, being a very cheery person and is kind and nice to many who meet her. 4 List of Actors and Actresses of Betty Boopīased on the singer Helen Kane, despite her age, Betty has a huge eyes, long eyelashes, a high-pitched voice and a svelte, slender body.She is, however, mentioned in many documentaries and books about the Harlem Renaissance, and her legendary way of singing does live on in the iconic Betty Boop character. During her entire career, she was mostly only known locally in the New York City area, and she reportedly died at a very young age. In fact, she never even really achieved mainstream success. Meanwhile, the very woman who inspired the character, Baby Esther, was never compensated in any way. It's estimated that the Betty Boop franchise generated millions of dollars in revenue from televison networks and sales of merchandise. But soon after, she was transformed into a white woman and remained so until her character was finally retired.

She appeared in at least one animated scene in the popular Popeye The Sailor Man series. Initially, Betty Boop was shown in cartoons as an African American woman. That very same style was heavily imitated by the Betty Boop animated character. Her stage name was "Baby Esther", but unfortunately, when her character become the first and most famous sex symbol in animation she was whitewashed with most people having no idea where the original inspiration came from.īaby Esther had a popular cabaret act at the infamous Cotton Club in Harlem, New York where she sang with a unique vocal style that featured “boop-boop-a-doops” and other similar scat sounds. PBS has confirmed that Betty Boop, the popular cartoon character introduced to the world by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930, was actually inspired by a real-life African American jazz singer and entertainer from Harlem named Esther Jones.