# Boop-Boop-a-WHO? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531 "2004-12-24T23:26:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/21 "2004-12-27T03:44:48Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Don’t we have a Doper who’s a regular contributor to the IMDB? Can we get some input from him or her on how Mae Questel got credited with all the other Boop-a-Doopers’ work, and how that can be amended? I would imagine she got credited with everything because that’s the information that was submitted to the IMDB. The way to amend it would be to submit the correct info via their website. They supposedly do some fact-checking of submitted material, but generally rely on all of us out here in cyberspace to provide the goods. The only contribution I ever made was to correct the biographical info for a minor celebrity of whom I am rather fond. They made the changes relatively quickly, within a couple of weeks IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerous\_Nan\_McGrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Dangerous\_Nan\_McGrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerous_Nan_McGrew)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/22 "2004-12-27T13:38:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I might someday want to do a book on Helen Kane … **GASP!** That would be just … wow. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/23 "2004-12-27T14:16:55Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I would imagine she got credited with everything because that’s the information that was submitted to the IMDB. The way to amend it would be to submit the correct info via their website. They supposedly do some fact-checking of submitted material, but generally rely on all of us out here in cyberspace to provide the goods. Which is why I never use web sites as source material—anyone can post anything online, there’s no fact-checking or editiing. I use the Inernet to _point me_ toward reliable sources. **Nan** , don’t hold your breath—I’ll be working on my _current_ book till aught-six. ---
**Author:** ![Boopsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Boopsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boopsie)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/24 "2004-12-27T16:46:08Z")
Those pics of Helen Kane remind me of Christina Aguilera with that 20’s look, and her dark hair. Also the plucked-to-perfection-or-extinction eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/25 "2004-12-27T17:04:45Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I’ll be working on my _current_ book… And that is again? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/26 "2004-12-27T17:40:35Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > And that is again? [Vernon and Irene Castle](http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aviation/fullRecord.asp?id=10808). But don’t line up at the bookstore yet, it’s not even due at my publisher’s for another year and a half. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/27 "2004-12-27T18:34:33Z")
The place to look is Lelie Cabarga’s book **The Fleischer Story**. Unfortunately, I’m not at home right now (visiting relatives for the holidays), so I can’t check on it. IIRC, there were up to five ladies doing Betty, and Mae wasn’t the only one (or even the first). ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/28 "2004-12-27T19:24:22Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Nope- Mel Blanc was in the cast as well. Huh. Apparently, that’s right. I’d heard that factoid a while back, and never thought of Mel, because I thought he was busy being dead at the time. The rumors of his demise, while not exaggerated, were temporally misplaced in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/29 "2004-12-27T19:40:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > IIRC, there were up to five ladies doing Betty . . . Puh-_lease!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/30 "2004-12-27T19:49:18Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > [Here](http://hillbillykitten.tripod.com/photofile.html) are some photos of Helen Kane, by the way, for those of you who doubt her Boop-worthiness. Christ. She’s _beyond_ Boop! She’s bodaciously Boop-like! She’s a Sooper Booper! She’s Boopalicious! She’s the belle of the Boops! She wrote the book on Boop! I got the scoop on Boop, and she’s the real article, sister! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/31 "2004-12-28T00:40:01Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Christ. She’s _beyond_ Boop! She’s bodaciously Boop-like! She’s a Sooper Booper! She’s Boopalicious! She’s the belle of the Boops! She wrote the book on Boop! I got the scoop on Boop, and she’s the real article, sister! “If she were a Presidential assassin, she’d be John Wilkes Boop!” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/32 "2004-12-28T00:57:01Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I might someday want to do a book on Helen Kane and Betty Boop… I have a bright idea for the proper pose for the picture-of-the-author on the book jacket! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/33 "2004-12-28T18:00:17Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > IIRC, there were up to five ladies doing Betty, and Mae wasn’t the only one (or even the first). I’d pay to see \*that \*cartoon! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/34 "2004-12-31T02:55:43Z")
I gotta watch how I phrase things around you adolescents. It was bad enough with Wonder Woman, but Betty Boop… In any event, now that I’m home I have a chance to look up Cabarga’s book, **The Fleischer Story**. This is from the second, paperback edition (Da Capo Press, 1988. I wasn’t smart enough to buy the first edition in hardcover), p. 57: “…The voice of Betty Boop was done by several women including Margie Hines, Kate Wright, and Bonie Poe. Most important were Little Ann Little and Mae Questel.” Little as one of the earliest to do the voice, and went on the road as a “live action” Betty Boop vaudeville act, promoting the cartoons. Mae Questel was chosen by Max Fleischer to do the voice in 1931, and continued until the series ended in 1939. She also did the voice in 1988’s **Who Framed Roger Rabbit?** and for a short-lived Betty Boop Fables radio series in the 1930s. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531/35 "2004-12-31T04:47:07Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > I have a bright idea for the proper pose for the picture-of-the-author on the book jacket! 😃 As both a competant still photographer **and** the Cartooniverse of record at the SDMB, I hereby volunteer to shoot said still. In black and white. On a divan. With a gen-u-ine muslin overhead to diffuse the sunlight and render our subject all pretty and stuff. Just like the [Black Maria](http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/BlackMaria.jpg) !! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boop-boop-a-who/281531.md?page=1)