Editing Betty Boop (section)

{{Short description|Animated cartoon character}}
{{About-distinguish|Betty Boop, with a "[[p]]"|Betty Boo}}
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{{Infobox character
| name = Betty Boop
| image = Betty Boop, April 1932.svg
| caption = Betty Boop in 1932
| image_size = 150px
| alt = A cartoon flapper with neotenous features with short curly black hair and wearing a short black dress
| species = [[Human]] (although an anthropomorphic french poodle in her first appearance)
| gender = Female
| first = ''[[Dizzy Dishes]]'' (1930)
| last = 
| creator = [[Max Fleischer]], with [[Grim Natwick]] et al.
| portrayer = 
| nationality = 
| voice = {{plainlist|
* [[Margie Hines]] (1930–1932, 1938–1939)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA">{{cite web|url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Betty-Boop/Betty-Boop/|title=Voice(s) of Betty Boop|website=Behind the Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=2021-05-16}}</ref>
* [[Little Ann Little]] (1931–1933, 1938)<ref name="Finding Her Voice">{{cite web |title=Finding Her Voice |website=Fleischer Studios |url=https://www.fleischerstudios.com/voices.html |access-date=2024-01-22}}</ref>
* [[Harriet Lee (singer)|Harriet Lee]] (1931)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/><ref name="Finding Her Voice"/>
* [[Mae Questel]] (1931–1939, 1988)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/><ref name="Finding Her Voice"/>
* [[Bonnie Poe]] (1933–1934, 1938)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/>
}}
'''Post-Golden Age'''
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* Victoria Dorazi (1980)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/>
* [[Desiree Goyette]] (1985)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/>
* [[Melissa Fahn]] (1989)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/>
* [[Sandy Fox]] (1991–2022)<ref name="Sandy Fox">{{cite web |title=Experience |at=Bio |website=Sandy Fox |url=https://sandyfox.com/experience.html |access-date=2024-01-22}}</ref><ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/>
* [[Cindy Robinson]] (2015–present)<ref name="Betty Boop at BTVA"/>
* [[Jasmine Amy Rogers]] (2023–present on stage and cast album)<ref>Nahoom, Belle. [https://chicagomaroon.com/41378/arts/in-boop-the-musical-a-nostalgic-story-leaps-to-the-stage "In ''Boop! The Musical'', a Nostalgic Story Leaps to the Stage"], ''[[The Chicago Maroon]]'', February 8, 2024</ref><ref>Culwell-Block, Logan. [https://playbill.com/article/broadways-boop-will-release-a-cast-album "Broadway's ''Boop!'' Will Release a Cast Album"], ''Playbill'', April 24, 2025</ref>
}}
}}
'''Betty Boop''' is a [[cartoon]] character designed by [[Grim Natwick]] at the request of [[Max Fleischer]].{{efn|[[Richard Fleischer]] wrote that "he, Max Fleischer, was the sole creator ... acknowledged that many animators contributed ... not just Natwick, but also Seymour Kneitel,Berny Wolf, Myron Waldman, ..."{{sfn |Fleischer |2005 |p=52}}}}{{sfn |Pointer|2017 |page=88}}<ref name="natwick-obit">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press|title=Myron Natwick, 100; Animated Betty Boop |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/10/obituaries/myron-natwick-100-animated-betty-boop.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=B-24 |date=October 10, 1990 |access-date=July 1, 2009}}</ref>{{sfn |Maltin |1980 |p=[https://archive.org/details/ofmicemagic00leon/page/95/mode/2up 96]}} She originally appeared in the ''[[Talkartoon]]'' and ''Betty Boop'' film series, which were produced by [[Fleischer Studios]] and released by [[Paramount Pictures]]. She was featured in [[List of Betty Boop films and appearances|90 theatrical cartoons]] between 1930 and 1939.{{sfn |Lenburg |1999 |pp=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/54/mode/2up 54]–[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/56/mode/2up 56]}} She has also been featured in comic strips and prolific mass merchandising throughout the decades, and two television specials in the 1980s. In 2025, ''[[Boop! The Musical]]'' debuted on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].

A caricature of a [[Jazz Age]] [[flapper]], Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable".<ref>{{cite web|title=''Fleischer Studios v. Ralph A. Freundlich, Inc.'', 5 F. Supp. 808, 809 (S.D.N.Y. 1934)|url=https://casetext.com/case/fleischer-studios-v-ralph-a-freundlich-inc-2|access-date=20 February 2014|archive-date=February 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220010644/https://casetext.com/case/fleischer-studios-v-ralph-a-freundlich-inc-2|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the [[Hays Code]] to appear more modest, and has become one of the world's best-known and most popular cartoon characters.