In this odd pairing, legendary singer, dancer and bandleader Cab Calloway starred in these surreal Betty Boop cartoons to promote his music, “Minnie the Moocher” and “The Old Man of the ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers, the Tony-nominated star of 'Boop! The Musical,' reveals her favorite Betty Boop cartoon, too.

So how's this for awesome: in 1933, animator Roland Crandall singlehandedly animated a seven-minute Betty Boop cartoon (a version of Snow White) in only six months. In 1994, animators voted the ...

People seem to have the misconception that Betty Boop was a lighthearted bit of fluff. But Max Fleischer was a master of animation. Combined with jazz great Cab Calloway singing St James Infirmary ...

Instead of stiff movement, cartoon characters in Fleischer Studios cartoons suddenly could swing and sway like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong or Betty Boop, an affectionate caricature of a maybe ...

and Betty performed alongside jazz legends like Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. Although Betty Boop’s great legs carried her far, they also got her in trouble. n 1934, the Motion Pictures ...

Created by animator Grim Natwick, and voiced (mostly) by Mae Questel, Betty was the queen of the ... Don Redman and Cab Calloway. Grammy-winning composer David Foster and lyricist Susan Birkenhead ...

The black-and-white video features a Betty Boop-style female lead ... of Wilkes leading his band in a white tuxedo, à la Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher.” Filmed at a theater in Paducah ...

"I did a total of 76 tattoos to achieve this scene from Betty Boop Snow White. The original was made by Fleischer Studios in 1933 using the rotoscope technique to recreate Cab Calloway dancing to ...

some by the likes of Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. Unlike today’s “sexy babies,” Betty Boop never expects the world to coddle her. Beneath the spit curls and fluttering eyelashes ...

All-new adventures of Betty Boop (with her pals Koko the Clown ... A stilt-legged ghost! Cab Calloway singing "St. James Infirmary Blues"! A snake-like dragon that turned inside-out, so its ...

Betty Boop, the iconic scat-singing cartoon flapper ... the most artistically ambitious of the Boop cartoons (with Cab Calloway Rotoscoped in as a singing walrus ghost), she upsets her parents ...