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 Barbie, who ...

Betty Boop Turns 95 — And Fans Still Can’t Get Enough of the Cartoon Icon originally appeared on Parade. Boop-Oop-a-Doop! Born from the hands of American animator Max Fleischer, Betty Boop first ...

Whenever moviegoers of the 1930s heard that phrase, the image of a cute, curvaceous flapper with short skirt and low-cut blouse quickly came to mind. She was Betty Boop, the sexiest cartoon character ...

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 and Times of Betty ...

ABC's Stephanie Sy and cartoonist Bryan Brinkman celebrate Betty Boop's birthday Aug. 9, 2010— -- A legend of the silver screen is celebrating today, as the black-and-white femme fatale, Betty ...

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A puppy missing a paw was found on the streets of Chicago. Now, that puppy has a new home and a prosthetic paw on the way. The new paw was donated all because of the puppy's name and a story on FOX 32 ...

Corrections and Clarifications: An earlier version of this story had the incorrect title of the new cartoon. Betty Boop, the flirty cartoon character who first batted her eyelashes onscreen in 1930, ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. One was the creator of a squeaky-clean mouse named Mickey, the other the brains behind a squeaky-voiced flirt with the catchphrase “Boop-oop-a-doop.” But ...