Can’t wait to see Ryan Gosling as Martin Luther King
I thought it was common knowledge that Betty Boop’s singing style and signature catchphrase were directly inspired by a Black jazz singer named Esther Jones while her visual appearance and look after popular white flappers of the era, primarily singer Helen Kane.
In 1932, Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios and Paramount Publix Corporation for $250,000. She claimed they had stolen her likeness and her famous, baby-voiced “boop-oop-a-doop” singing style. But this backfired on Kane during the New York Supreme Court trial. Fleischer’s defense team proved that Kane did not invent the baby-voiced scatting style. Instead, Kane had stolen it from a young Black child performer named Esther Jones, known on stage as “Baby Esther”
Baby Esther was famous for dancing, making funny faces, and interpolating childlike scat sounds like “boo-boo-boo” and “doo-doo-doo” into her jazz routines
The upcoming Betty Boop feature film will focus on the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer.
So I think this isn’t race swapping as much as exploring the comingling of races in the jazzy twenties
Helen Mirren as Harriet Tubman.
I thought they gave the MLK role to Bill Murray?
I'd pay to watch Samuel L. Jackson as Tarzan.
"Say Ape Man one more time."