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Boop-Oop-a-Doop! ♡

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Betty♡Boop the Boop-Oop-a-Doop Girl.

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Boop-Oop-a-Doop!

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America's sweetheart Betty Boop the redheaded fireball.

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Betty Boop x Ice Cream.

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Clara Bow the model for Betty Boop.

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Clara Bow the model for Betty Boop.

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Clara Bow the model for Betty Boop.

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Mae Questel vs. Helen Kane in battle of the boopers.

Who was the real Betty Boop? Mae Questel of course.

It may look like Mae is copying Helen, but the flapper girl look was common to every girl of the 1920s and 1930s.

Kane did not own the spit curls, every girl had that style.

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This is a 1930 to 1931 colorized artwork of Betty Boop by Grim Natwick. This is Betty's original color palette as a poodle woman.

Betty has vivid red hair, blue eyes and she wears a pink dress. This here is Betty's original color palette by Natwick.

Betty already was a redhead long before the 1934 cartoon "Poor Cinderella" and Grim Natwick has confirmed this on many occasions. The Fleischers after all stole his creation. They obviously are going to change the narrative, as if Natwick did not already establish that Betty had red hair and blue eyes.

Such a shame that Natwick has been discredited by the Fleischer Studios family lineage for decades now, even after his death.

Obviously Betty's image was based on Clara Bow and other women who were stars back in the 1920s and 1930s.

Helen Kane the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" Girl who Natwick used as one of the many sources to introduce Betty Boop had based most of her earlier success on Clara Bow the "It" Girl. Kane had aspired to be the next Clara Bow. Kane's wasn't so successful in the movies. She appeared in several Paramount films from 1929 to 1931.

When Kane went to Broadway and found success in "Good Boy" in 1928, she became a short-lived star. She was a sort of rival to Bow not in the movies but on record.

Bow was more successful as a film star, and Kane as a singer. Gloria Swanson told Helen Kane in 1930 at an event that Clara Bow was the most beautifulest of stars, this enraged Kane. It turns out that Bow did not get on with other women in Hollywood, with the only acception being Louise Brooks.

Kane's stardom fizzled by 1931, and Bow retired in 1933.

Betty Boop was not just based on those women, but also the women who voiced her. Margie Hines, Little Ann Little, Bonnie Poe and most notably Mae Questel.

Most of Betty Boop's image was based on the cute Questel.

Much like Helen Kane imitating Clara Bow, Mae Questel started her career imitating Helen Kane.

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Most of Clara Bow's persona as the jazz-baby vamp were embedded into Betty Boop's persona. Paramount Pictures admitted that Bow was the model for Betty Boop. The Fleischers however wouldn't admit to stealing anyone's image.

Bow's dress was one of the inspirations for Betty's outfit.

Betty Boop was originally a redhead and she had blue eyes. This has been confirmed by her creator Grim Natwick, Little Ann Little the voice of Betty Boop and cartoon historian Leslie Cabarga.

The Fleischer Studios stole from many women, such as Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo, Mae West and others to develop Betty Boop.

Helen Kane sued the Fleischers as she felt that her boop oop a doop had been taken away. It later came out that she was not the first booper or baby doll in the business.

The boop oop a doop was used earlier in Harlem nightclubs by a multitude of African American jazz singers. It was quite common to boop or doop in songs.

Bow had retired in 1933, so at the height of Bow's fame, there was no competition between Bow and Boop.

Later in life Bow battled schizophrenia, but while doing so, she was a fan of Marilyn Monroe. Monroe was also like Betty Boop. Clara Bow was the original Marilyn Monroe.

Redheaded girls and women dominated the 1920s and 1930s.

When you think of Jessica Rabbit or Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood, please think of Betty Boop's origination as a redhead in 1930.

Betty Boop drawn and colorized by Grim Natwick - 1930 to 1931.

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Betty Boop and her friends, Olive Oyl, Popeye, Swee'Pea, Pudgy the Dog and KO-KO the Clown.

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Baby Betty Boop.

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Betty Boop was created in 1930 by animator and artist Grim Natwick. The original Betty Boop was a redhead with blue eyes and was based on Paramount Pictures top star Clara Bow.

Natwick created Betty for Dave Fleischer and Max Fleischer and their studio the Fleischer Studios. The character became a success in 1932. Max Fleischer promised to return Betty Boop to her original creator after the series had ended but he didn't keep his promise.

After Fleischer died, Natwick tried to sue the Fleischer Studios but he had no proof that he created or owned the character. Fleischer Studios and third-parties made billions off of the character, and Natwick did not get any royalties.

The Fleischer Studios maintain that Natwick's contribution was small, however this was a fabrication lie spread by the Fleischer family to discredit him.