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Quinta Brunson is taking a bet on Betty Boop. <\/p>\n
The two-time Emmy winner is developing a film about the animated icon and will star as the doe-eyed flapper, The Times confirmed on Wednesday. The \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d star and creator\u2019s production company Fifth Chance Productions will team with cartoonist Max Fleischer\u2019s grandson Mark Fleischer and their Fleischer Studios for the film. Variety<\/a> first reported the news. <\/p>\n Brunson, in a news release shared with The Times, praised Betty Boop as one of the nation\u2019s \u201cmost beloved cartoon characters\u201d and said she realized \u201cthere was a much deeper story to tell\u201d after she and Fifth Chance head of creative affairs Erin Wehrenberg met with the younger Fleischer. According to the release, the movie will chronicle the cartoon character\u2019s origin and evolution through Max Fleischer\u2019s perspective and will examine the \u201crelationship between the artist and his creation as he navigates the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the world\u2019s first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to take on a life of its own.\u201d<\/p>\n Betty Boop, designed by late cartoonist Myron (Grim) Natwick<\/a>, first appeared in Max and Dave Fleischer\u2018s 1930 cartoon \u201cDizzy Dishes\u201d as part of Fleischer Studio\u2019s \u201cTalkartoons\u201d series. The Fleischer brothers asked Natwick to draft up a woman character for the popular song by Helen Kane, \u201cBoop-Boop-A-Doop.\u201d Natwick initially designed Betty as a dog\u2019s head on the curvaceous figure of a woman and modeled her flapper hairdo on Kane\u2019s own coif. As Betty Boop became more popular, Natwick revised his design to swap the character\u2019s floppy dog\u2019s ears for bangle earrings and shrinking her nose. Her curvaceous figure, flapper \u2018do and large eyes remained. <\/p>\n Mae Questel, who provided the loopy, child-like voice of cartoon characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, poses in 1978 with a poster of Betty Boop. <\/p>\n (Associated Press)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n \u201cQuinta so embodies Betty\u2019s love of life, intelligence, humor, sassiness and compassion that the relationship between her as Betty and Max burst into life at its mere mention,\u201d Mark Fleischer said in a news release.<\/p>\n Betty Boop was primarily featured in theatrical cartoons from 1930 to 1939 \u2014 voiced by Mae Questel<\/a> \u2014 but her sex symbol status and general fabulousness made her an intergenerational icon. Earlier this year, the preliminary design of Betty Boop featured in \u201cDizzy Dishes\u201d entered public domain<\/a>. <\/p>\n Brunson, though best known for the ABC comedy \u201cAbbott Elementary,\u201d first gained popularity in the 2010s for her viral social media comedy clips and her work on Buzzfeed. She appeared on TV series \u201cA Black Lady Sketch Show\u201d and \u201ciZombie\u201d before \u201cAbbott Elementary,\u201d about a group of educators at an underfunded Philadelphia elementary school, became a breakout hit in 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d has collected four Emmy Awards and was renewed in March for its sixth season at ABC. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quinta Brunson is taking a bet on Betty Boop. The two-time Emmy winner is developing a film about the animated icon and will star as the doe-eyed flapper, The Times confirmed on Wednesday. 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