![]() Actually a caricature of singer Helen Kane, her voice was performed by a variety of actresses over the years. Kane had more than 20 recorded songs to her credit at the time. Her life off the silver screen was convoluted. She wore short dresses, high heels and in Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle she appeared naked with nothing but a grass skirt and lei placed around her neck so that it covered her breasts. Cartoon men were always trying to catch a glimpse of her while she was changing clothing and in 1931 she was pictured in bed with Santa Claus. No one seemed to mind that – officially, according to Max Fleischer – she was 16 years of age at the time. In an era when women cartoon characters were almost asexual, Betty Boop had a contoured body, eyelashes and – for the era – highly suggested clothing. She was created in 1930 for eight Talkartoons and then a film series by Max Fleischer for a clearly adult market. While her life, so to speak, on-screen was idyllic, the real world scrap over her rights – and income – were quite another matter. In 2018 Pudgy was the face of Moschino's latest limited edition line for Chinese New Year, which is the Year of the Dog.Credited with being the first – and certainly the most famous – animated sex symbol is Betty Boop.Pudgy's creator Myron Waldman also stated in the 1995 biography Betty Boop: Queen of Cartoons that he disliked Bimbo the Dog.Pudgy means fat, the dog appears to be a slender, thin, tall.Pudgy appears on the artwork for Betty Boop's Double Shift sitting beside Billy Boop, but neither appear in the game.Bimbo was Betty Boop's boyfriend who removed from the Betty Boop cartoons due to bestiality & the hays code. This is untrue, both Bimbo and Pudgy are entirely different characters. Most people think that Pudgy is the reincarnation of Bimbo, who was Betty's canine boyfriend who appeared in the earlier Betty Boop cartoons.Pudgy makes his last appearance in The Scared Crows which was released in 1939. ![]()
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