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The actress who played Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was the same lady who provided the voice for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl

The original voice actor for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl (Margie Hines), died only 4 years ago at the age 101 years old. She also married the man who provided the voice of Popeye, so Olive Oyl and Popeye did eventually live together!

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1. Betty Boop was actually based off of an African American singer whose singing trademark was “Boop oop da doop”. The resemblance between the two of them is uncanny.

2. Oogie Boogie in the Nightmare Before Christmas was inspired by Cab Calloway's dialogue in a Betty Boop Cartoon, directly borrowing the line "Whatcha gonna do now?" "Gonna do the best I can!"

3. The famous character BETTY BOOP was based on Helen Kane's real voice & appearance, but she based HER jazz act & routine after a little Black girl called "Baby Esther" when the child performed at The Cotton Club in Harlem.

4. The cartoon character Betty Boop was based on real life 1920's African American singer Esther Jones aka "Baby Esther"

5. Walt Disneys "Cinderella" (1950) was actually inspired by Betty Boops earlier version "Poor Cinderella" (1934)

6. Cartoon sex symbol Betty Boop who frequently wore revealing cloth is supposed to be 16

7. The cartoon sex symbol Betty Boop was originally created as an anthropomorphic French poodle.

8. Max Fleischer, the producer of cartoons such as Betty Boop and Popeye also invented Rotoscope animation and the "Follow the bouncing ball" singalong.

9. The iconic character Betty Boop was originally a anthropomorphic french poodle.

10. Helen Kane (aka face of Betty Boop) stole her signature scat line “Boop Boop be doop” from another singer named Baby Esther and denied the claims that she had copied her.

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Betty boop was based on a popular African American Singer named Esther Jones

Rotoscoping, an animation technique , was developed by animator Max Fleischer, the one who brought Betty Boop, Popeye or Superman to the movie screen, in 1915 and has been used since 1918 in cartoons such as Betty Boop, but as well by studios such as Disney and Warner Bros - source

Betty Boop, one of the most famous sex symbols in animation, was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem in the 1920s - source

Betty Boop was originally supposed to be an anthropomorphic dog. They decided to change her to human but kept her dog ears from 1930 to 1932

A species of fish called the "Boops boops" and its genus, also called Boops. - source

The 1932 Betty Boop short "Minnie the Moocher" features the earliest known film of Cab Calloway performing.

Betty Boop was originally designed as dog, a companion to the popular animated dog Bimbo.

Betty Boop's prototype appeared in KoKo Song Car-Tunes before she became popular in 1930

Betty Boop started off as a horrifying anthropomorphic dog.

It was bb8 who said "i have a bad feeling about this" in star wars the last jedi but in robot-beep-boop language

Debbie Reynolds played Helen Kane (who helped inspire Betty Boop) in this scene from the 1950 musical Three Little Words. Also, Helen Kane dubbed the song!