Betty Boop – Happy You and Merry Me – 1936
A stray kitten called Myron wanders into Betty Boop’s house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the Pup Cult Cinema Classics
15th May 2025
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Betty Boop And The Little King (1936)
The Little King, comic strip character, meets Betty Boop. Director: Dave Fleischer Writer: Oscar E. Soglow Star: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
20th April 2025
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936)
Betty tries a regime of exercise, but her weight loss gets out of hand. She sings “Keep Your Girlish Figure. Director: Dave Fleischer Writer: Jimmy Swinnerton Star: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
15th April 2025
Betty Boop – A Language all my own (1935)
Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese Cult Cinema Classics
13th April 2025
Betty Boop and Pudgy Making Friends (1936)
Pudgy the Pup takes Betty Boop’s advice (‘Go Out and Make Friends With the World’) to heart and befriends various wild animals. Cult Cinema Classics
10th April 2025
Betty Boop – Swat the Fly (1935)
While Betty tries to bake a cake, an annoying fly flies in to pester Betty and Pudgy the Pup. Betty, after failed attempts at regularly swatting a fly, desperately begins tossing gobs of extra dough at the little fly, but the fly keeps escaping. In the end, Betty catches the...
7th April 2025
Betty Boop – Poor Cinderella (1934)
In her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to the good fairy; Once there, she takes the fancy of Prince Charming but has to flee as the clock strikes midnight. Cult Cinema Classics
25th March 2025
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Betty Boop – A Little Soap and Water – 1935
Pudgy the Pup loses his bone on top of the coal bucket. Meanwhile, Betty Boop is preparing the wash tub for a dog bath. When Pudgy realizes what Betty has planned, he tries to get away. Betty has to pursue him through the house, including several laps under the living...
30th December 2024
Betty Boop – Grampy’s Indoor Outing (1936)
Betty offers to take her nephew Junior to see the carnival. Before they can leave the house, it starts to thunder and rain, making it impossible to attend the carnival. Betty’s upstair’s neighbor Grampy saves the day by using his crazy inventions to turn the apartment (and eventually, even the...
8th December 2024
Betty Boop and Pudgy – Not Now (1936)
A caterwauling cat annoys Betty Boop and Pudgy; the latter tries cat-chasing, but bites off more than he can chew. Director: Dave Fleischer Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
23rd November 2024
Betty Boop – The Hot Air Salesman (1937)
Wiffle Piffle is an annoying door to door salesman, selling a variety of useless gadgets. As he cheerfully walks from house to house, both arms are continuously moving as if flapping in the breeze. As he stops at house after house, he is immediately turned away. Cult Cinema Classics
14th November 2024
Betty Boop – The candid candidate (1937)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gv949ux8ro Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor, and wins by one vote (despite the fact the town’s paper says it’s a landslide). However, he later finds out the job isn’t as glamorous as he thought. Nonetheless, he helps solve some of the city’s issues, such as building a free...
9th November 2024
Betty Boop and Pudgy – Little Nobody – 1935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-PHg1_-eQ Betty’s puppy Pudgy is infatuated with the cute dog next door, but is crushed when the dog’s owner refers to him as a “little nobody.” Betty cheers up her pet by singing “Every Little Nobody is Somebody.” Pudgy later proves this when he rescues his doggie love from a...
2nd November 2024
Betty Boop – Judge For A Day (1935)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_7Gvej8h4 Betty is the stenographer at the local courthouse. On the bus ride to work one day, she grows tired of the obnoxious actions of some of her fellow citizens (which she refers to as “pests”), and fantasizes about what she’d do if she were the judge. Among her decrees:...
26th October 2024
Betty Boop – Baby Be Good (1935)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS3Jpe2TGxI Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale (with herself as fairy). Part of the action is replayed in reverse. Director: Dave Fleischer Staring: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
23rd October 2024
Betty Boop – Musical mountaineers (1939)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg9uU-PBqbA Betty Boop’s automobile runs out of gasoline while driving through hillbilly country. When she goes up to a nearby shack to ask for help, landowner Zonk Peters and his family are suspicious of the stranger, mistaking her for an attacking Hatfield, but Betty wins them with her dancing. Soon...
18th October 2024
Betty Boop – Training Pigeons – 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGkaeSqdMQ Betty Boop is training a flock of pigeons, but one stray leads Pudgy the pup on a precarious chase over the rooftops. Director: Dave Fleischer Star: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
12th October 2024
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American (1935)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j6V3u-4I8Q Henry, comic strip character, gets a job at Betty Boop’s pet store. Director: Dave Fleischer Star: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
4th October 2024
Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKBYLe6KmgQ Two piano movers, a fireman and a traffic cop all drop what they’re doing to join Betty Boop at the contraption-happy Grampy’s eccentric party. Director: Dave Fleischer Star: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
2nd October 2024
Betty Boop – House Cleaning Blues (1937)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wcj2og8Av4 Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue! Director: Dave Fleischer Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
30th September 2024
Betty Boop – I Want You For Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0pDQKR6r4 Betty Boop sings I Want You For Christmas. For all the loved ones far away. Cult Cinema Classics
28th September 2024
Betty Boop – Is My Palm Read – 1933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBqPXRaWVE Betty visits Bimbo the fortune teller for some advice, but Bimbo is only interested in making time with Betty. Bimbo’s crystal ball predicts that Betty will be shipwrecked on a desert isle (during which time she sings part of the Irving Berlin song All by Myself), and attacked by...
27th September 2024
Betty Boop – We Did It – 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJREJaRAXF4 While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual? Director: Dave Fleischer Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
23rd September 2024
Betty Boop – Crazy Inventions (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMi7wj2TTIQ Assisted by ticket-taker Bimbo the Dog and product-demonstrator Koko the Clown, Betty Boop stages a “Big Invention Show”. Highlights of the program include a pig-powered pipe organ, a Rube Goldberg-style spot remover, a cigarette snuffer, a soup silencer, a sweet-corn regulator, and an egg-frying device, replete with optional hen...
20th September 2024
Betty Boop – The Impractical Joker (1937)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c62lPzwI7uM etty Boop’s baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical-joking cousin, Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker? Director: Dave Fleischer Stars: Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
18th September 2024
Betty Boop – Be Human (1936)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6A8mdRyxE Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor’s cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson. Director: Dave Fleischer Star: Mae Questel Cult Cinema Classics
17th September 2024
Betty Boop – Blunderland (1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWzzptHJ58 Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the white rabbit. She “awakes” just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass and disguises as Alice into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland and sings “How Do You Do”...
14th September 2024
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