Editing Betty Boop (section)

==Media==

===Television===
In 1955, Betty's 110 cartoon appearances were sold to television syndicator [[U.M. & M. TV Corporation|UM&M]], which was acquired by [[National Telefilm Associates]] (NTA) in 1956. NTA was reorganized in 1985 as [[Republic Pictures]], which folded in 2012, and became Melange Pictures, a subsidiary of [[Paramount Global]], the parent company of Paramount. Paramount, Boop's original home studio (via Melange/Paramount Global), acts as a theatrical distributor for the Boop cartoons that they originally released. Television rights are handled on Paramount's behalf by [[Trifecta Entertainment & Media]], which in turn were inherited from CBS Television Distribution (renamed [[CBS Media Ventures]] in 2021), successor to other related companies, including [[Worldvision Enterprises]], [[Republic Pictures Television]], and [[NTA Film Network|NTA]].

Betty Boop appeared in two television specials, ''[[The Romance of Betty Boop]]'' in 1985, which was produced by [[Lee Mendelson]] and [[Bill Melendez]], the same creative team behind the [[Peanuts]] specials, and 1989's ''[[The Betty Boop Movie Mystery]]''; both specials are available on DVD as part of the Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack. While television revivals were conceived, nothing has materialized from the plans. Her most recent television appearance was an episode of ''[[Project Runway All Stars (season 6)|Project Runaway All Stars]]'' in February 2018.<ref name=ew>{{Cite magazine |title=Project Runway All Stars recap: 'Thrown for a Loop by Betty Boop' |url=https://ew.com/recap/project-runway-all-stars-season-6-episode-6/ |last=Marcias |first=Ernest |date=2018-02-08 |access-date=2023-01-13 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref>

By 2016, a new 26-episode television series focusing on Betty Boop was in production by Normaal Animation and [[Fleischer Studios]], with [[King Features Syndicate|King Features]]. The show was to be aimed towards the tween and teenaged audiences. The premise was to "recount the daily struggles, joys, and victories of young Betty Boop, who has every intention of being on stage and becoming a superstar".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/02/betty-boop-animated-series-max-fleischer-1201700613/|title=Betty Boop To Star In New Animated Series From 'Peanuts' Producers|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=2016-02-11 |website=Deadline|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref><!-- WAS THE PROJECT DROPPED? -->

===Home media===
While the animated cartoons featuring Betty Boop have enjoyed renewed attention over the last 30&nbsp;years, official home-video releases have been limited to the VHS and [[LaserDisc]] collector's sets in the 1990s. No such releases for the Betty Boop cartoons on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] were made until 2013, when Olive Films, under license from [[Paramount Home Entertainment]], finally released the nonpublic domain cartoons, although they were restored from the original internegatives, these were altered in 1954 by a now defunct TV distributor named [[UM&M|UM&M TV Corp.]] and the altered opening and closing credits appear on these discs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/movies/homevideo/betty-boop-the-essential-collection-comes-to-blu-ray.html|title=Boop-Boop-a-Doo on Blu-ray|last=Kehr|first=Dave|date=August 16, 2013|website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=July 22, 2021}}</ref> Volume 1 was released on August 20, 2013, and volume 2 on September 24, 2013. Volume 3 was released on April 29, 2014, and volume 4 on September 30, 2014.

===Comics===
The ''Betty Boop'' comic strip by Bud Counihan (assisted by Fleischer staffer [[Hal Seeger]]) was distributed by King Features Syndicate from July 23, 1934, to November 28, 1937.{{sfn |Holtz |2012 |p=71}} From November 19, 1984, to January 31, 1988, a revival strip with [[Felix the Cat]], ''[[Betty Boop and Felix]]'', was produced by [[Mort Walker]]'s sons Brian, Neal, Greg, and Morgan.{{sfn |Holtz |2012 |p=71}}{{sfn |Strickler | 1995 |p=[https://archive.org/details/syndicatedcomics0000unse/page/206/mode/2up 206]}} In 1990, [[First Comics]] published ''Betty Boop's Big Break'', a 52-page original [[graphic novel]] by [[Joshua Quagmire]], [[Milton Knight]], and [[Leslie Cabarga]]. In 2016, [[Dynamite Entertainment]] published new [[Betty Boop (Dynamite Entertainment)|''Betty Boop'' comics]] with 20 pages in the alternative American graphic novel style; four issues were released.
[[File:Boopoct2334.jpg|center|thumb|upright=3.5|Bud Counihan's ''Betty Boop'' (October 23, 1934)]]

===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>

=== Video game ===
* [[Betty Boop's Double Shift]] (2007) developed and published by [[DSI Games]].

===Stage musical===
{{main|Boop! The Musical}}
A musical entitled ''Boop! The Musical'', with music by [[David Foster]], lyrics by [[Susan Birkenhead]] and book by [[Bob Martin (comedian)|Bob Martin]], made its pre-Broadway debut at the [[CIBC Theatre]] in Chicago, Illinois, from November 19, 2023, to December 24, 2023. Direction and choreography are by [[Jerry Mitchell]], and the musical starred [[Jasmine Amy Rogers]] as Betty Boop, with [[Faith Prince]] as Valentina, [[Ainsley Melham]] as Dwayne, [[Erich Bergen]] as Raymond, [[Stephen DeRosa]] as Grampy, [[Angelica Hale]] as Trisha and Anastacia McCleskey as Carol.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gans|first=Andrew|title=''BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical'' Will Make Pre-Broadway World Premiere in Chicago|url=https://playbill.com/article/boop-the-betty-boop-musical-will-make-pre-broadway-world-premiere-in-chicago|date=February 14, 2023|website=playbill.com|publisher=[[Playbill]]|access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Boop! The Musical">{{cite web|last1=Higgins|first1=Molly|last2=Gans|first2=Andrew|title=''BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical'' Reveals Complete Casting|url=https://playbill.com/article/boop-the-betty-boop-musical-reveals-complete-casting|date=September 28, 2023|website=playbill.com|publisher=[[Playbill]]|access-date=November 21, 2023}}</ref> ''Boop! The Musical'' began preview performances on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 11, 2025, and opened officially on April 5 with the same cast and creative team.

===Film cameo===
In the 1988 film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', Betty Boop was voiced one more time by [[Mae Questel]] before her death in 1998.<ref name="Ainsworth 2018">{{cite web |last=Ainsworth |first=Alexis |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/WhoFramedRogerRabbit.pdf |date=2018-12-04 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=2024-09-16}}</ref> The character appears in a scene with detective [[Eddie Valiant]]. At the end, she appears in the crowd with a group of other [[cartoon]] characters who all sing "[[Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!]]".