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Minnie the Moocher (1932)
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11 March 1932 (USA) morePlot:
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song. full summary | full synopsisUser Comments:
Betty Boop and Cab Calloway make a great team moreCast
(Credited cast) | Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra | ... | Themselves (as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) |
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The opening live-action clip of Cab Calloway and his orchestra is said to be the earliest known film footage of Calloway. moreMovie Connections:
Featured in "Cinemania: Oi apagorevmenes tainies: I logokrisia ston kinimatografo" (2009) moreSoundtrack:
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The first part of the film shows us a younger Betty Boop than we're used to seeing in the Fleischer Brothers cartoons.
Betty is a girl in her early/mid teens, being nagged to tears by her immigrant parents. Betty sings the 1911 Von Tilzer number "They Always Pick On Me". Notice how the animator attends to such details as the bouncing of Betty's breasts on the staircase-- such details would soon be suppressed in USA animation by the Hayes Code.
This is the first of 3 Fleischer cartoons with Cab Calloway featured on the soundtrack. They proved popular-- and Calloway used them as advertising, having the cartoons shown in theaters of towns the week before his travelling band would arrive.
"Minnie The Moocher" is good, as is the last of the series "The Old Man of the Mountain", but Betty Boop's "Snow White" is the best of all.