Betty Boop for ever

The first ever female human character in the history of cartoons, she was also the first woman to have the leading role in a cartoon, since she was born in 1930. With those gorgeous legs, those huge bedroom eyes, her soft singer voice, Betty Boop is such a big hit! As she gets ready to blow out 90 candles in 2020, the sexy little brunette and her legendary Boop-oop-a-doop has never grown old but is still an enigma. From the society of the 1930’s of her birth to today’s society which put her on the front page of the New Yorker as a way to denounce sexual harassment and saw the birth of the #Metoo movement: what image of the modern woman does Betty Boop project?

Supported by beautiful archives, we immerse into a 30s jazzy world and this entertaining and feminist documentary counts Betty Boop’s own story. The documentary takes another look at the myth of the cartoon icon with interviews from: Jeni Mahoney, Max Fleischer’s great-granddaughter (he is Betty’s creator), Oscar awarded producer Lili Zanuch, the famous stylist Chantal Thomass, and young committed artists Melissa Laveaux & Viktoria Modesta.

By	Claire Duguet
With	Marianne Lère, Anne Schuchman
Year	2020
Duration	52min
Language	French (English subtitles)
Country	France