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Director:
Dave Fleischer
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Release Date:
11 March 1932 (USA) more
Plot:
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 synopsis
User Comments:
Betty Boop and Cab Calloway make a great team more

Cast

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Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra ... Themselves (as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
8 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The opening live-action clip of Cab Calloway and his orchestra is said to be the earliest known film footage of Calloway. more
Soundtrack:
MINNIE THE MOOCHER more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Betty Boop and Cab Calloway make a great team, 14 June 2000
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Author: froggy-34 from Planet of the Frogs

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.

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