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.
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.
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).
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.
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!
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.
