Actress Helen Kane, the inspiration for the Betty Boop cartoons, never received royalties or credit for them. A striking and unique performer who began in Vaudeville, she was too 20s for the 30s and her career, sadlly, fizzled.
Helen Kane was a Broadway star and still continued onwards on stage after the whole Betty Boop trial (1934). Betty Boop started out a caricature of Kane in Dizzy Dishes (1930) as a out of work actor, which was a reference to Kane who had been dropped by Paramount in 1920. Betty copyed Kane from all her films. The real bad thing was that 2 of the voices were hired as Helen Kane look-a-likes and sound-a-likes. Those two women were Bonnie Poe and Mae Questel.
Now I know where did betty boop got her style! :)
ReplyDeletebut shes not as curvy as the animated betty boop!!! the real life betty boop has cute eyes but the animated one has killer curves dam! shes sexy!
ReplyDeleteThey're both awesome!
ReplyDeleteHelen Kane was a Broadway star and still continued onwards on stage after the whole Betty Boop trial (1934). Betty Boop started out a caricature of Kane in Dizzy Dishes (1930) as a out of work actor, which was a reference to Kane who had been dropped by Paramount in 1920. Betty copyed Kane from all her films. The real bad thing was that 2 of the voices were hired as Helen Kane look-a-likes and sound-a-likes. Those two women were Bonnie Poe and Mae Questel.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting and both of them are just so amazing.
ReplyDeleteJust as pretty as the cartoon Betty.
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