Betty Boop: Yiddish Film Star

Brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer created and controlled one of the great 1930s sex symbols, animated Betty Boop. Betty's cartoons, remembered most vividly for their overt sexuality and often grotesque imagery, are even more provocative when viewed in relations to the lives of her worki...

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Published in:American Jewish history 1999-12, Vol.87 (4), p.291-312
Main Author: HOLBERG, AMELIA S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animated cartoons
Animated films
Animation
Audiences
Cartoons
Entertainment
Essays
Fleischer, Dave
Fleischer, Max
History
History and sciences of religions
Imagery
Immigrants
Immigration in America
Inventors
Israel
Jewish history
Jewish peoples
Modern and contemporary Judaism
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Movies
Noncitizens
Sexuality
Siblings
Stars & galaxies
Technological change
Vaudeville
Yiddish language
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Summary:Brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer created and controlled one of the great 1930s sex symbols, animated Betty Boop. Betty's cartoons, remembered most vividly for their overt sexuality and often grotesque imagery, are even more provocative when viewed in relations to the lives of her working-class, Eastern Europe immigrant, Jewish creators.
ISSN:0164-0178
1086-3141
1086-3141
DOI:10.1353/ajh.1999.0035