When it comes to “hidden figures” in Black history, few have a legacy as instantly recognizable as Esther Jones. A largely ...

Here’s the item:. Esther Jones Was the Real Betty Boop! The iconic cartoon character Betty Boop was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem. Introduced by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930, the ...

“Boop! The Musical,” the Broadway play that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 5, has announced its final show date ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life ...

A 1930s Cartoon Character, Betty Boop, Comes to Life as Broadway’s Most Compelling Musical Comedy Heroine in Decades. Credit the show’s librettist, Bob Martin, and the director and choreographer, ...

As for Betty Boop—the first-ever female and fully human cartoon star—Caruso discovered her 1930s cartoons later, when he was in high school, on VHS. “One hundred miscellaneous cartoons for a ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude … Following on the high ...

The Betty Boop cartoons were not just aimed at kids. They had stuff in them for grownups, too: not least, guest appearances by some of the era's top jazz musicians.

Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike ...

Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed violence and sexual content in movies — even animated movies.