Editing Betty Boop (section)

===Cancelled film projects===
In 1993, plans were made for an animated feature film of Betty Boop, but they were later cancelled. The musical storyboard scene of the proposed film can be seen online. The finished reel consists of Betty and her estranged father performing a jazz number together called "Where are you?" [[Jimmy Rowles]] and [[Sue Raney]] provide the vocals for Betty and Benny Boop.<ref name="Steve Moore">{{Cite web |last=Moore |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Moore (cartoonist) |url=http://www.moorestudiosinc.com/bettyboop.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512190244/http://www.moorestudiosinc.com/bettyboop.htm |url-status=dead|title=Moore Studios<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=May 12, 2013}}</ref>

Producers Steven Paul Leiva and Jerry Rees began production on a new Betty Boop feature film for the Zanuck Company and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. The script by Rees detailed Betty's rise in Hollywood in the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was to be a musical with music by jazz musician Bennie Wallace and lyrics by Cheryl Ernst Wells. Wallace and Wells had completed several songs and 75% of the film had been storyboarded when, two weeks before voice recording was to begin with [[Bernadette Peters]] as Betty, the head of MGM, [[Alan Ladd Jr.]], was replaced by [[Frank Mancuso Sr.|Frank Mancuso]], and the project was abandoned.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} On August 14, 2014, [[Simon Cowell]]'s [[Syco]] and [[Animal Logic]] announced they were developing a feature-length film based on the character.<ref>{{cite news| last1=McNary| first1=Dave| title=Betty Boop Movie in the Works With Simon Cowell|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/betty-boop-movie-in-the-works-with-simon-cowell-exclusive-1201278204/|access-date=August 15, 2014|date=August 14, 2014|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|website=variety.com}}</ref>