Minnie the Moocher (film)

Minnie the Moocher
Betty Boop series
Still from the film
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Voices by	Mae Questel Cab Calloway (vocal chorus)
Animation by	Willard Bowsky Ralph Somerville
Studio	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (National Amusements)
Release date(s)	March 11, 1932
Color process	Black-and-white
Running time	7 mins
Language	English

Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.^[1]

Plot

The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her parents, runs away from home with her friend Bimbo, and sings excerpts of the Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" (1911) and the song "Mean to Me" (1929).

Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with skull-like eyes feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues".

Notes

Clips of the redrawn colorized version were used in the compilation movie Betty Boop For President: The Movie (1980).

References

↑ Minnie the Moocher at Big Cartoon Database

External links

Betty Boop films

1932	Any Rags? Stopping the Show Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee Betty Boop, M.D. Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle Betty Boop's Ups and Downs Betty Boop for President Minnie the Moocher I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You Betty Boop's Museum

1933	Betty Boop's Ker-Choo Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions Is My Palm Read? Betty Boop's Penthouse Snow-White Betty Boop's Birthday Party Betty Boop's May Party Betty Boop's Big Boss Mother Goose Land Popeye the Sailor The Old Man of the Mountain I Heard Morning, Noon and Night Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

1934	She Wronged Him Right Red Hot Mamma Ha! Ha! Ha! Betty in Blunderland Betty Boop's Rise to Fame Betty Boop's Trial Betty Boop's Life Guard Poor Cinderella There's Something About a Soldier Betty Boop's Little Pal Betty Boop's Prize Show Keep in Style When My Ship Comes In

1935	Baby Be Good Taking the Blame Stop That Noise Swat the Fly No! No! A Thousand Times No!! A Little Soap and Water A Language All My Own Betty Boop and Grampy Judge for a Day Making Stars Henry, the Funniest Living American

1936	Little Nobody Betty Boop and the Little King Not Now Betty Boop and Little Jimmy We Did It A Song A Day More Pep You're Not Built That Way Happy You and Merry Me Training Pigeons Grampy's Indoor Outing Be Human Making Friends

1937	House Cleaning Blues Whoops! I'm a Cowboy The Hot Air Salesman Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow Pudgy Picks a Fight! The Impractical Joker Ding Dong Doggie The Candid Candidate Service with a Smile The New Deal Show The Foxy Hunter Zula Hula

1938	Riding the Rails Be Up to Date Honest Love and True Out of the Inkwell The Swing School The Lost Kitten Buzzy Boop Pudgy the Watchman Buzzy Boop at the Concert Sally Swing On With the New Thrills and Chills

1939	My Friend the Monkey So Does an Automobile Musical Mountaineers The Scared Crows Rhythm on the Reservation

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