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Despite a strong lead performance by Jasmine Amy Rogers, fun songs and nifty designs, this cartoon of a show remains stuck in two dimensions.
The classic cartoon character Betty Boop is bigger than ever with a Broadway musical, makeup, clothes and more.
But Betty Boop, the 1930s icon the show is based on ... her iconic look that’s still well-known today was a flapper minidress, hoop earrings and a garter above the knee. Drooling men lusted ...
Betty Boop has tumbled out of her black-and-white cartoon world into moden-day New York City with all its vibrant sights and sounds. It's a big adventure for our 1930s flapper girl, and an even ...
What I didn’t consider is how Betty evolved over that decade: Arriving as a voluptuous but girlish flapper who catered to sexist stereotypes ... The Betty we meet in “BOOP!” skews more closely to her ...
Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and ... Betty Boop. How David Foster went from recording studios to the Broadway musical stage.
As Betty, the flapper of early talkie cartoons, Jasmine Amy Rogers is immensely likable. She sings fabulously, sports a credible perma-smile, nails all the Boop mannerisms and has a fetching way ...
Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips ...
Making Betty Boop a draw 95 years after she debuted. At this point, the icon isn’t really nostalgic to anyone or at the top of anybody’s mind. Whatever you may feel about the big-eyed flapper ...
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 and style, she is of her time ...