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Betty Boop CelebriDuck
Everybody's favorite flapper, Betty Boop, joins
the cast of CelebriDucks with this very special Duck. Betty Boop
was the first
flapper cartoon. She made her first appearance on
August 9,
1930
in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes, the sixth installment in
Fleischer's Talkartoon series. She was little like her
soon-to-be-famous self, however.
Grim Natwick, a veteran
animator of both
Walt Disney's and
Ub Iwerks' studios, was largely responsible for creating the
character, which he modeled on
Helen Kane, a
singer and contract player at
Paramount Pictures, the studio that distributed Fleischer's
cartoons. In keeping with common practice, Natwick made his new
character an animal, in this case, a
French poodle. Beginning with this cartoon, the character's
voice was performed by several different
voice actresses until
Mae Questel got the role, in
1931,
and kept it for the rest of the series.
