Only former Betty Boop impersonators are featured in this article. Please do not include any actresses who are currently under contract to play Betty for Universal Studios.
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Betty Boop Impersonator
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Betty Boop Impersonator is a character impersonator, usually an actor or actress who takes on the role of a fictional character and mimics them. In 1985, King Features Syndicate who owned the rights to Betty Boop, received such good feedback that they hired a dancer to wear a Betty Boop costume across the United States at shopping mall promotions and huge Betty Boop parties.
"When we move around the country, we act as if we're dealing with a real live entertainment star, which she is," said Ted Hannah, director of advertising and public relations for King Features.
"We hire a limousine to take Betty Boop out on the town, to discos," Hannah said. "People regard her as a star. They love it." King Features licensed more than 200 categories of Boop merchandise.
"Although Betty Boop is not a feminist, she could be useful to the movement because she's non-threatening and she shows good qualities," quoted the then director of King Features.
Fleischer Studios
Betty Boop at the Rex Theatre in Warsaw
Official Betty Boop Impersonators (King Features Syndicate)
MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park Impersonators
Universal Studios Impersonators
- Suzanne LaRusch
- Rachel Copeland
- Cindy Wilson
- Kayla Strada
- Chelsea Talmadge
- Elizabeth Rendon
- Christina Hydro
- Hollie Winnard
- Amanda Klein
- Ash Kane
Bloomingdale's
1980 Democratic National Convention
1987 Museum of Cartoon Art
- Lisa Delsignore
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Betty Boop on Tour
Betty Boop's Fortune Teller
Crazy Rhythm Hot Society Orchestra
Cabaret La Boop
Wake Up, Betty Boop!
The Ziegfeld Society
Arcade Tavern, Los Angeles
Donny & Marie
The Great Betty Boop Talent Search
- Emily Sandler
Vandor Products
The Fleischer Story Exhibit
Boop Troop
Coca-Cola
The Betty Boop Musical
What Happened To Betty Boop?
Chiavarin Cosplay Festival
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Radioland
Retro Atelier
Betty Goes A Posen
Social Media
Gallery
Trivia
- They usually hire more than one Betty Boop to take on the role.[7]
- Lulú a Mexican parody of Betty Boop is also portrayed by character impersonators.[8]
- In 1984, Desirée Goyette portrayed Betty Boop in person for a year.
- Some are models and imitate Betty, others are trained singers and dancers.
- Imitation is usually not the sincerest form of flattery but being as Betty is fictitious that rule does not apply.
- The impersonator often will imitate Mae Questel or Helen Kane to create their incarnation of Betty.
- The only difference between the impersonators and the character Betty Boop is that Betty is a teenager between 13-16, whereas the Betty Boop impersonator at the theme parks is portrayed by women pretending to be young girls.
- Is "Betty Boop Impressionist" alternatively.
- During the 2000s, a Betty Boop "Universal Studios Orlando" impersonator and a Popeye impersonator, appeared as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor Man on Celebrity Jeopardy!, a TV gameshow.[9] Someone who worked on the show stated they actually wanted Marvel superheroes, but somehow ended up with Betty and Popeye.
- The Betty Boop on Broadway is also an impersonator, as the role requires her to impersonate Betty Boop.
- Debbie Reynolds had to impersonate a Boop-like character in the 1950 musical Three Little Words.
See Also
- ↑ Voices of Betty Boop
- ↑ Betty Boop Visits Store Here and Entertains Crowd
- ↑ Mae Questel the Unseen Voice Behind Betty Boop
- ↑ https://lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2011/oct/04/1004G2E/108306/
- ↑ Wake Up, Betty Boop!
- ↑ Shirley Reid as Betty Boop at Arcave Tavern
- ↑ Betty Boop Impersonators
- ↑ Lulú Impersonator
- ↑ Celebrity Jeopardy!: Betty Boop