Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed violence and sexual content in movies — even animated movies.

Betty Boop ventures from her black-and-white home to technicolor New York City. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman “Boop”’s plot, like its title, is monosyllabic. A to Boop.

Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike ...

You might remember Betty Boop if you’re really old. She’s the curvaceous icon from the 1930s that gave little boys boners before they knew what sex was all about.

Director Jerry Mitchell’s sing-and-smile-along musical opens in New York, vastly improved from its Chicago tryout and starring the talented Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop.

Ainsley Melham and Jasmine Amy Rogers in 'Boop! The Musical' on Broadway. (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) She might have played Snow White before Rachel Zegler and shown her chops as a lion ...

From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!

Given that Betty Boop appeared only in Max Fleischer film shorts and was at her peak in the 1930s — a decade when she starred as everything from a trapeze artist to Snow White to the owner of ...