Please help me identify this picture

[The Moocher]

The attached picture puzzles me.

Betty's cleavage is respectable and there's no garter (to be seen), but her short skirt indicates a pre-Hays cartoon.

She's definitely fully human. The drawing style looks like 1933 or early 1934.

She's on-stage, but isn't wearing her "showgirl" flapper dress - so she's playing a part.

My best guess is that the screen capture is from "She Wronged Him Right." Betty did wear her garter in this cartoon, but it's possible that in this particular shot her hemline is just low enough to hide it.

However, I'm anything but sure. If anyone has the cartoon or can identify the picture from any other cartoon I'd appreciate some assistance.

Mooch

[bettyboopfan]

Hmmmm.....looks very fimiliar......I will have to study it for a moment.

Hopefully someone might come along and can help you out Mooch!

[Bikerbettyboop]

Hi Mooch... I'm curious... where did you obtain this image from?

[The Moocher]

It was from a site selling Betty Boop videotapes. It wasn't annotated or described in any way, but as I recall it was beside the "Betty Boop Confidential" video.

Mooch

[Bikerbettyboop]

hmm... interesting info... I wonder if it's in the Betty Boop Definitive Collection? Now that's quite a collection of Betty Boop films isn't it?

[The Moocher]

Most of the shorts are in the Definitive Collection, although many are of poor quality. Unfortunately most of the vdeotapes in that collection are NTSC only - and others are unavailable.

Mooch.

[bettyboopfan]

Any luck yet Mooch on the pic?

[The Moocher]

No, it's still a mystery. I'm also not sure where this other one came from. It's Fearless Freddie, but I don't remember him as a Wild west Sherrif.

Mooch

[bettyboopfan]

Hmmmm....looks like he is handcuffed to something.....

I don't recognize this one.....

[The Moocher]

No, it's still a mystery. I'm also not sure where this other one came from. It's Fearless Freddie, but I don't remember him as a Wild west Sherrif.

Mooch

The Sherrif picture is from Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934).

I still haven't got the first one (Betty on stage). I thought it might be No! No! A Thousand Times No (1935) but she wears a different outfit in that cartoon. Also, her skirt is very short for a post Hays cartoon.

Mooch

[bettyboopfan]

Yes, I don't believe it is No! No! either....hmmmm I hope some one can help you out here.

[The Moocher]

It's not She Wronged Him Right either. Maybe it's a poster and not a cartoon at all, although it looks like a screen capture.

Mooch

[bettyboopfan]

I think it is a screen capture and not a poster.

[The Moocher]

I'm wondering if this could be from The New Deal Show (1937).

The Hays Commission sometimes let Betty wear shorts onstage provided her top half was well covered. I have access to most of her onstage cartoons, but not the New Deal Show.

Has anyone seen it?

Mooch

[bettyboopfan]

I don't believe I have seen the New Deal Show.

[bboop480]

i have not either...

[Comix]

I'm not sure where that picture of her on stage came from right now but I do know that it came from the post-code era because Betty has less curls in her hair in the later catoons. I believe they did that because it easier to draw.

[The Moocher]

It's more like post-code, in spite of the short skirt. The other possibilty is A Language Of My Own. but I think they allowed her a bit of cleavage in that one.

Mooch