Betty Boop ventures from her black-and-white home to technicolor New York City. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman “Boop”’s plot, like its title, is monosyllabic. A to Boop.

Betty Boop debuted in 1930, initially as a dog-like stage performer. She evolved into a human character, becoming the world’s only female animated screen star in 1932, voiced by Mae Questel.

Thus she exits her black-and-white world via a time machine crafted by sidekick Grampy (Stephen DeRosa) and ends up, of all places, at the Javits Center in the middle of Comic Con, where she ...

Boop boop a-doo, ha ha!” Betty, created at the height of the Jazz Age, is obviously modeled on flappers, and her relationship to music history has been a subject of debate and litigation.

SEEKING: BETTY BOOP - Early 20s, Black, Indigenous, API, Latine, MENASA, Mixed, or White, female- presenting. Confident, curious, whip-smart, open-hearted, and bold. Searching for what’s “real ...

1930s cartoon character Betty Boop is thought to have been influenced by a young Black performer named Esther "Baby Esther" Jones.

Betty Boop is the studio’s star attraction, which is historically accurate. In “Boop!” which runs through Dec. 24 at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre in the Loop, she exists in a hermetic, black-and ...

A short item promoting PBS’ Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon character was based on a Black performer of the Jazz Age. That’s not entirely true.