![]() Louis Blues.” The song, strictly speaking, is unrelated to the offense for which Bimbo’s been arrested, but he obviously hopes to gain the court’s sympathy by singing it as part of his defense. Once in court, Bimbo escapes a penalty by producing a banjo out of nowhere, dancing a few steps, and singing portions of “St. He pursues her on foot but then is nabbed by the cops and hauled into court for digging holes in the public street with his car. Unfortunately for Bimbo, the young woman isn’t interested and soon escapes on her skates. That move attracts police attention, but unaware of their official interest, Bimbo then focuses on a bosomy young woman roller skating down the street, lures her into his vehicle, and attempts to romance her. When she turns out to be ugly and mostly toothless, he tries to escape her by tunneling under the pavement in his car. In the “Hot Dog” cartoon, Bimbo soon focuses on one female he thinks might be attractive. He wasn’t referring to women, however, since he’d been speaking these words while selling frankfurters at a carnival. ![]() Their rivalry had begun the previous year when Mickey’s first cartoon, “The Karnival Kid,” was released on May 23, 1929, and “Hot dogs! Hot dogs!” were Mickey’s first on-screen comments in it. The title of this cartoon also may have been a subtle Fleischer reference to the competition between Mickey Mouse and Bimbo. Whether or not this shift in meaning was partly prodded by Bimbo’s relentless on-screen pursuits, it underscored his interest in women. Soon after Bimbo’s character began appearing on the screen, however, “bimbo” came to mean a promiscuous female. When he was first dubbed “Bimbo,” that word meant a tough guy, or a criminal. At the time, “hot dog” was slang for “attractive woman.” Appropriately enough, considering this quest of Bimbo’s, his name had two different meanings at the beginning of his cartoon career. In the cartoon “Hot Dog,” released on March 29, 1930, in which Bimbo starred and in which Betty did not appear, Bimbo was shown out driving and trying to pick up women walking on the sidewalk. Nevertheless, as a dog-man he needed a partly doggy girlfriend. Although clearly a canine, he wore clothes, spoke English, played musical instruments with his forepaws, walked on his hind legs, and otherwise acted completely human. In any case, Bimbo was a pretty advanced mutt. Very few Americans love mice, but millions of American families in the 1930s owned and loved dogs.) (The Fleischers were shrewd to pick a dog-like person to star with Betty rather than a mouse, which had been Disney’s choice. He’s the author of several books including Investigative Reporting and The Story of Motown.īetty Boop started her on-screen cartoon life as a girlfriend for Bimbo the dog-man, an already existing Fleischer Studios cartoon star, whom the Fleischers had created as an answer to Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. He taught journalism at Binghamton University, New York University, and Columbia University, and worked in various communications roles in New York City. Several hundred of his articles appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Press, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before he began writing for popular magazines including Rolling Stone. McGoldrick ruled: “The plaintiff has failed to sustain either cause of action by proof of sufficient probative force.” In his opinion, the “baby” technique of singing did not originate with Kane.The author: Peter Benjaminson *77 began his career working as a reporter. Paramount proved this by showing Clara Bow (a Paramount Actress) also had the Betty Boop style of dress and hair.Įvidence was produced that Kane actually derived that singing style from watching Baby Esther perform at the Cotton Club several years before the creation of the Betty Boop character. In 1932, Kane filed a lawsuit again Paramount Corporation for “exploiting her image.” After a two year legal struggle, Kane lost the case as Paramount was able to prove that Kane did not uniquely originate or have claim to the Betty Boop style of singing or look. ![]() Her singing style often included, “Boop oop a doop.” She performed regularly at the The Cotton Club in Harlem and that’s where fellow singer, Helen Kane saw her act and was inspired enough to take Esther’s baby singing style and called it her own and recorded, “I Wanna Be Loved By You.”Īfter that, Max Fleischer created Betty Boop, a cartoon character who’s voice sounded a lot like Baby Esther’s and who’s named obviously borrowed from Esther’s signature, “Boop oop a doop.” Esther Jones is a singer who was known by her stage name, “Baby Esther.” She was an African-American entertainer in the late 1920s.
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