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Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
- Themselves
- (as Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
Cab Calloway
- Self - Bandleader
- (uncredited)
Billy Murray
- Bimbo
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
William Pennell
- Father
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Betty Boop
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Willard Bowsky(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe opening live-action clip of Cab Calloway and his orchestra is said to be the earliest known film footage of Calloway.
- Quotes
Betty Boop: [singing] They always, always pick on me They never, never let me be. I'm so very lonely, awfully sad. But I know what I'll do. By and by I'll eat some worms and then I'll die. When I die, you'll wait and see. They will all be sorry they picked on me.
Handkerchief: It's been a long time since you've been glad.
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a re-traced colorized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Betty Boop Confidential (1998)
- SoundtracksProhibition Blues
(uncredited)
Written by Walter Thomas
Played during the opening credits
Performed by Cab Calloway and his orchestra
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Betty Boop and Cab Calloway make a great team
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.
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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- froggy-34
- Jun 13, 2000
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- Also known as
- Лентяйка Минни
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- Runtime8 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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