Having starred in over 100 films, she’s been teasing audiences since day one. Though her original reign was short, Betty Boop’s sly sexuality and flirty femininity made her an icon for generations to come. Created by Grim Natwick, Betty Boop first appeared in 1930 as a dog character, making her debut in a film called Dizzy Dishes.
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Sensual, sexy, and charming…she knows how to put on a show, thanks to her mischievous character full of whimsical charm, her playful spirit, and her timeless youth.” Similarly, MAC and Zac Posen developed Betty collections in 2017, the former a Betty Boop Red lipstick, the latter a pair of dresses in the official Pantone shade of Betty Boop Red. In 2012, when Betty became the face of Lancôme’s Hypnôse Star Mascara with supermodel Daria Werbowy, then Worldwide President of Lancôme Sue Youcef Nabi called the petite beauty “the greatest feminine cartoon star of all time. Ever since then, the first illustrated sex symbol has maintained a constant space in culture, from small screen to big, from fashion to beauty, and beyond. By 1939, Betty was out of a job, no longer in production.īut Betty Boop has never been too far from cultural memory, especially with her syndicated cartoons making their way to small screens in 1955.
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But the Motion Picture Production Code deemed Betty’s swish and shape too provocative for audiences, so by the mid-1930s the Fleischers traded her decolletage-and-thigh bearing dresses for more modest ensembles and “wholesome” activities like babysitting. Betty wasn’t punished for her sexuality: she was celebrated for it.īetty thrived in the days before the Hays Code, the censorship guidelines that began governing Hollywood in 1934. And she was always victorious in bouts with male pursuers who tried to have their way with her against her will. After he died in 1972, Fleischers family. In the short “Minnie the Moocher,” for example, she strives for a life outside of the tenements into which she was born. Fleischer created Betty Boop in the 1930s, but sold Paramount Pictures the rights to the character in 1941. Yet her coquettish coo belied her strength, and she was as much a product of Depression-era toughness as she was a creation of the male gaze. But there wasn’t a standalone female human character yet, much less an unmarried one with purposely heightened sex appeal. We fangirl her because we recognize she’s the first of our kind: a stylin’, sexy, take-no-shit dame who knows the power of a great lipstick.Female cartoon characters at the time were predominantly animals, merely the feminized version of their male counterparts-think Minnie Mouse’s eyelashes and flower hat to Mickey’s buttoned shorts. (See Mouse, Minnie.) Not Betty-she was allllll woman. Still, before Betty Boop, female cartoon characters were childish stereotypes, or literally the same as male ones with eyelashes and a bow added on. I’m pretty sure everyone agrees the oversized toddler head on top of her scantily-clad curves is nightmare fuel. But why do we love her so much? It’s not the cloying sexy-baby voice, the Cyndi Lauper accent, or the annoying catchphrase. An 86-year-old It-girl, she has sold more merch than the all of the Kardashians put together, collaborating with everyone from Jean Paul Gaultier on perfume to Supreme on a satin jacket recently worn by Bella Hadid.
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(The designer even joins her in a three-part series of old-timey animated shorts.) The nostalgia factor for Betty Boop is off the charts. Betty Boop lipstick (on sale today), which comes right on the heels of the announcement that Zac Posen is releasing a Betty Boop dress collection in a new shade called Betty Boop Red by Pantone.
Boop-Oop-a-Doop! Editors and red-lipstick fans are freaking out over the launch of the M.A.C.
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