On her 90th birthday, the Jewish origin story of Betty Boop

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"Betty Boop’s first appearance in a cartoon short [was] produced by the Austrian Jewish animator Max Fleischer." Find out more about her origins and "Betty’s mercurial variety and ambiguity" in this article by clicking on the link above. The See Also link is to a discussion of the Fleischer brothers who as a group were responsible for the creation of Betty Boop, Superman (the cartoon) and Popeye.

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Betty Boop; Theater, Movies and Television; Cartoons; Fleischer, Max; United States

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