4 Betty Boop Girls
The "Four Betty Boop Girls" were an act that featured Mae Questel, Little Ann Little, Bonnie Poe and Margie Hines. In the act each girl would do a solo, then all four would merge. Mae Questel would then finish up with impressions of well known celebrities, which included Mae West and ZaSu Pitts. The adverts for the girl group stated the following: "4 Betty Boop Girls! Featuring Mae 'Betty Boop' Questel and 'The Boop-Oop-a-Doops' Bonnie Poe, Margie Hines and Little Ann Little."
Trivia
- The group was put together to capitalize on Helen Kane's $250,000 Infringement Lawsuit against Paramount Pictures and the Fleischer Studios.
- Katherine Wright appeared in the newsreel with the other four girls, but wasn't featured in the group. Mainly because she never voiced Betty Boop in the cartoons, as she was just a "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" radio singer. Revealed in the lawsuit documents, in which states that Wright "never" voiced Betty from 1930-1934. It was mainly Hines, Questel, Poe and Little. Poe, Questel and Hines voiced the most cartoons as Betty, which is why they were focused on during the lawsuit.
- Several decades later The Betty Boopers by Beso Entertainment Studios succeeded the Four Betty Boop Girls.
- Their group name was also sometimes titled 4 Betty Boop Girls.