Jasmine Amy Rogers plays Betty Boop, and she embodies a jazz-age look and style that can be seen in period stars from Clara Bow to Josephine Baker.

Thirty-eight years ago, an ambitious young cartoonist named Frank Caruso turned up to the Manhattan offices of King Features ...

Paramount Pictures has owned the copyrights to the Betty Boop cartoons, and some are entering the public domain as those expire. But the character is still owned by Fleischer Studios, and is ...

Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another ...

Who would have thought that the most compelling musical comedy heroine in decades would be a nearly 100-year-old cartoon character ... could cull a two-act musical from the adventures of Betty Boop, ...

Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed ...

The Betty Boop cartoons were not just aimed at kids. They had stuff in them for grownups, too: not least, guest appearances by some of the era's top jazz musicians. Grammy-winning composer David ...

His “Boop” book only elicits the occasional ... Secretary”) is a hoot as a variation of the drooling men from Betty’s cartoons. As Trish, the 17-year-old Hale (a finalist in “America ...