Voice Evolution of BETTY BOOP - 90 Years Compared & Explained | CARTOON EVOLUTION 

I find it really amazing that they went the extra mile in Roger Rabbit to get Mae Questel to reprise her role 50 years later!

Mae Questel was certainly the best out of all of Betty's VAs.

The fact they got Mae Castuel to reprise the role for Who Framed Roger Rabbit has me feeling things

Dave: "Betty Boop is the sexy, sultry and seductive animated goddess." Betty: "Boop-Oop-a-Doop"

“I have my rubber horsey!” Cutest Betty Boop line ever

Best voices of Betty to me: #1 Best Mae Questel 5:16, 11:59: Mae is very well known as the best voice of Bettyand is very popular as her by alot of fans, even last voicing her in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"'. So in a way she voiced Betty the longest, and she technically is the best and #1 voice of Betty. :) #2nd best: Margie Hines 2:21: Even though Mae surpasses her in popularity as Betty, she's up there as the best voice as her to me with Mae, she's the one who started it all. :) #3rd Best: Ann Little 4:07: I love Ann's portrayal as Betty, she sounds very close to Mae's voice as her, she's tied with Margie as the close second best voices of Betty to me. :) #4th best: Bonnie Poe 8:13: Again, she's tied with the top two being one of the best voices of Betty, coming very close to Mae's portrayal as her. :) 5th Best: Heather Haley: 13:03 She's tied with Sandy. :) I like her adorable voice as her, her pitch as her is perfect and the accent is there. She sounds more closer to Betty than Sandy I think. :) #6th best: Sandy Fox: 12:44: Even though she may sound a little too high pitched as Betty I love her cute portrayal as her. :) Of course, since she's modern, she'll never be as good as Mae or the others but she still sounds okay and really cute as her. I mean, her voice is a little higher for Betty and she may sound a little off as her at times, but it's not all bad, at least the accent's there. ) :) ^^ 7th best: Melissa Fahn, 12:13: Yeah her voice is alright, it's there, but she doesn't have the accent and is a bit too high pitched as her. Not bad though. 8th best: Leanne Broas 12:38: Again, she's alright her voice is there, but she's sounds off, her voice is too high pitched, and she doesn't have the accent. Again, not too bad. Here are the worst voices as her: #1 most worse: Harriet Lee 3:09: Wow, was she BAD. She couldn't even do the voice right (It's like she wasn't even trying, ) the voice isn't there AT ALL, no accent, and her voice is waay too deep for Betty. She was horrible. #2nd worst: Cindy Robinson 13:25 Yeah, she's pretty bad. I feel like her voice is way too deep and raspy for Betty, she sounds off, and the accent isn't really there. (It's like she's a babyfied/preschool version of her, like Dora or something from the way she talks too. I think she got the voice down alot though in a way, but it's too deep ,and off sounding.) #3rd most worse Camilla Bard 13:06: She was just HORRIBLE. She sounds absolutely NOTHING like Betty, her voice is waaay too high pitched, there's no accent at all, she's very off sounding, and yeah, she's just awful.. Her voice as her was cute though, but she's still not that good. She sounds more like Snow White than Betty. #4th most worst: Victoria D' Orazi: 11:15 Her voice is there, but her voice pitch as her is much too deep and off-sounding. #5th most worst: Desiree Goyette 11:31 She's alright as Betty and is really cute as her, but her voice is a little deep and sounds off as her, (Not as bad as the others though,) but yeah, she' doesn't have Betty's accent either.

Most of the voices all sound so similar, I didn't even know they were different voices until now.

I really love all tthese Lovely voice actresses as they've all given her life and such vibrancy!

Oh boy, Betty just warms my heart :D Musical Mountaineers and Sally Swing are some of my favorite cartoons :D

Wow Betty boop will never get old the classics will always live on

Mae Qusetel is one of my favorite voice Actress to voice of Betty Boop and I think I grew up with her since I watching cartoons for fun

The voices are cute. And so cool. At the start it was abit funny. ✌🏻👌🏻👍🏻😀 Welldone Dave Lee.

Boop Boop be doop I’ll love that catchphrase very cute

With the decades and course of time the voice changed but the beauty and sex appeal was still the same 😌👌💯

WHOO-HOO!!!! ITS HERE!!!!

OMG I had no idea that you have make one of them for betty ! She is a queen ❤

But Sandy Fox, can do a good Betty Boop impression.

Harriet Lee's sounds like if betty had a more tougher sounding sister. Sounds very distinctive from the others

I just realized that Betty Boop is actually 13-16 year old ( 1932-1934) and when i watch one of episode (i forgot the name but it involves circus and the ringmaster) I felt VERY uncomfortable knowing her age

13:25 | Cindy Robinson may be the closest to Mae Questal's vocal range than all the others.

I miss Betty boop

My voice feels strained just listening to this. RIP the voice actresses.

Didn't know they had her sing "That's My Weakness Now", that was one of Helen Kane's songs wasn't it? Cyndi Lauper was remarked upon in her early days for her "Betty Boop-like" voice - and she quoted the beginning of Helen Kane's "She's So Unusual" on her first album. I think the fact that she sang in a strong Queens accent was a big part of it.

my step grandma is a fan shes i her 70s still rocking her best!

I like the voice actor who did Aintcha (Aintcha kind glad)

Awesome!

You are awesome

When does Betty Boop hit the public domain?

Hope you do a voice evolution of witch hazel

Cartoon Girls Night 💃

I wonder if Tara strong could do a good Betty

Que fofinha

7:40 damn that's a nice car + she's good at driving 🤔🤔 8:13 damn but ngl he deserved that 💀💀🙏🙏 8:56 what the hell 💀💀💀 9:01 fun fact: Betty was based off a black woman so this scene with her having (well dark skin ig) is totally fine :3 9:22 My Mom every time I get the bare possibility of something I want at the store: 9:28 that dress is probably flammable 💀💀💀🙏🙏🙏 10:10 ...don't make Betty mad...trust me.. 11:26 this is really good! Animation, singing/va, its awesome and the color! (And for some reason I love the side view lol 11:58 is this supposed to be an old Betty 😭😭l 12:43 Me every time I see so.some for no reason at all: 12:57 help this looks like Elsagate 😭😭💀💀🙏🙏 13:02 this honestly looks better 13:25 nvm I don't like the reboot 😭😭😭 WHAT HAPPENED!!!????

I actually really like Harriet Lee a lot, but she doesn't fit Betty. If Betty was more mature looking, then it'd work. Little Ann Little is probably my favorite.

No one does the catchphrase quite like Mae.

Do Fat Abert next the most iconic black animated character

5:46 YEAH THATS RIGHT BETTY, YOU GO GIRL!! 6:55 she's fighting the demons bro 💀💀💀🙏🙏🙏 7:15 ....ima be honest I wouldn't make Betty mad even if I WAS a Man 💀💀

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Dave, first it's Mae QUES-tel, not "Kestel." Second, it has NOT been "recently" discovered that other women provided the Betty Boop voice. That has been known since 1976 with the release of THE FLEISCHER STORY, which I contributed to. Also your identification of the voice actresses is inaccurate. Many of the cartoons you associate with Ann Rothschild were done by Margie Hines, the first Betty Boop voice. And the picture you show of Margie Hines is not her. Your identification of Bonnie Poe is correct since she voiced the majority of the Betty Boop cartoons from 1933-1934. You omitted Kate Wright, another Helen Kane imitator, who did recordings for Columbia billed as "The Mystery Girl." Surviving recordings of her reveal the more "high-pitched" chldlike voice heard in a handful of cartoons from the early and mid 1930s. I believe she provided the voice in SWING SCHOOL and PUDGY THE WATCHMAN. Mae Questel ceased doing the voice in 1938, not 1939. Margie Hines returned to the role for the remainder of the series and also assumed the role of Mae's other iconic character, Olive Oyl from 1938 to 1944.

Not to mention bootleg merchandise. I once knew a chick who carried a lighter that had a clearly "Latina gangster" modeled Betty Boop on it.

Why does Kirby have dirpy eyes

4:31 😳

do evolution of the pink panther plz

... Created as a carton caricature our popular singer and performer Helen Kane. Betty Boop's vocal style essentially began as an imitation of her right down to Kane's signature line... sorry my man its a LIE. Look up Baby Esther: The Face Behind the Iconic Betty Boop" Esther Lee Jones

do evilon of the pink panther

Actually, Esther Jones, or “Baby Esther” inspired Paramount to create the cartoon character Betty Boop in 1930. Unfortunately she never received any credit or royalties. She was a Harlem-based jazz singer in the early 1900s. She even wore the same black dress! Helen Kane saw her preform, and stole the whole character/likeness. She even took Paramount to court over Betty Boop, and lost because Paramount was able to show that Esther was the original inspiration, not Helen, but Esther STILL didn’t get the credit. Truly sad.

Out of all of the Older Voice actressess, I feel like Mae is the best one. The ones after her... Yeesh they did a mediocre job. The only ones I thought who did there best was Desiree Goyette and Cindy Robinson.

Did you forget a koko the clown voice evolution

The further away from the black and white days the worse the voices got for me. Like none of the modern voices besides maybe one or two sound like Betty too me. Like they just can't seem to get their voices high enough or they just sound like they're just doing a 30's gal accent and leaving it at that. Kinda sad. I love Betty.

What about baby Esther?

Correct me if im wrong, but wasnt betty boop actually inspired by Baby Esther? Although Helen Kane said she was what inspired betty boop, the creators of the cartoon went to court and proved that Baby Esther, a black woman. Is actually the inspiration of Betty Boop.

how bout doing evolution of bimbo

'Don't take my boopeedoopdoop away'.....WTF is THAT supposed to mean???

The very first Betty Boop was a black woman named Esther Jones, so could you please check your history? Miss Jone should be recognized

No offense to Camila Bard, but she was the worst out of all of them.

It's kinda weird how over the decades she gets worst animation compared to the 30's especially those 3D renders

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It’s very sad and disappointing that she never got her movie

Mae Questal is an absolute legend, she'll always be remembered fondly as Betty Boop. ❤ And I loved these actresses who voiced her in the later iterations Melissa Fahn, Sandy Fox and Cindy Robinson. It kinda helps since I've heard them in tons of games and anime. 🙂

Your Betty Boop episode is my favorite to date. Was so excited for this follow-up vid!

Betty Boop is such an interesting character to me. Not even so much the character itself, but her place in history. I can't think of another cartoon outside of maybe Felix the Cat where in the ranking of all famous cartoons is maybe a C tier character, yet is so instantly recognizable and famous. Everybody knows these characters but has probably never seen anything they were ever in or would never think of this character on a whim.

5:50 “Come on, I’ll fight ya you big ol’ silly (bully?) you!” So cute oh my god lol the modern portrayals of Betty don’t quite hit that spunky sound classic Betty had... she needs her rough n tumble New Yorker accent on top of absolute adorable squeakiness lol

These are great little series. I don't think people give enough credit to things that have lasted decades like this and just how much goes into keeping something like this alive.

I personally think Mae Questel was the best Betty Boop, but you can tell she was much older when Roger Rabbit came out. I think all of the classic Betty's did an outstanding job as the character, and it's really hard to tell them all apart because they sound so similar, which was probably the goal. As for the modern Betty's, Desiree Goyette and Cindy Robinson were hands-down the best out of your selection. Desiree Goyette is definitely top three for me because she's an incredible singer, and she added a new spin to Betty's singing while still being distinctively Betty. I enjoyed her performance so much that I decided to edit my comment to put a timestamp here because I really like her singing and I can't seem to find her performance alone anywhere on RU-vid: 11:46. I know Cindy Robinson is also the current voice of Amy Rose, and if her singing in Sonic Boom is anything to go by, if Robinson ever gets to play Betty in a cartoon, I think she'd kill it. Victoria D'Orazi and Melissa Fahn definitely didn't do a bad job, but I didn't particularly associate their portrayals as Betty. Sandy Fox also didn't do bad at all, in fact, hers was really good, but it was just a matter of personal preference.

Honestly, with the exception of Harriet, most of them sound pretty consistent. Though Mae would have to be my personal favorite. Also, if they do find a way to do a reboot, Laura Summer, who voiced Janine Melnitz on The Real Ghostbusters, hasn't done much recently. I could see her pulling Betty off quite well.

Thank you for making these two excellent videos about such an underrated character. It's almost shocking how little respect and recognition that Betty gets these days given the groundbreaking nature and history of the character and I always appreciate knowing that I am not the only person of my generation to have fallen in love with her. Despite being 90 years old there is so much about her could resonate with modern audiences. I only hope that one day she will again get the chance to take the center stage position she so richly deserves. To answer the question of the video, while Questel always gave a great performance and is unquestionably the definitive voice of Betty Boop, I've always been a bit sad that Harriet Lee never got to lend her voice to more than a single cartoon. She was the only actress to ever do something different with the character and her more sultry delivery really lent itself to a more rough and feisty version of Betty that I would have liked to seen more of.

I love how a lot of early Betty VAs looked like a real life Betty

Betty never had a neck, even in her earliest appearances lol. I just noticed

To be honest, everyone’s talking about Mae Questal and yes, she is my favourite but I also love Little Ann Little, her voice is quite similar to Mae’s.

They all sounded awesome. Each lady captures the personality and spirit of Ms. Boop. I'd like to see the cartoon evolution of Olive Oyl. At one point, her animators free her in a more glamorous style.

When she's voiced without a Queens accent, she just sounds...wrong.

It was well worth the wait to see Betty Boop's origin. I liked Mae Questlel the best as Betty!

Mae Questel is my favorite voice!

I love these videos, mostly for the different voices, but also because the clips are so out of context that they're either unintentionally hilarious or disturbing.

Actually A Black Girl Named Esther Jones Did It First Helen Stole It From Her 😢

My favorite has to be Mae Questel.

I liked Margie Hines, though she sounded almost exactly like Mae Questel. Probably because my favorite Betty Boop cartoon is Mysterious Mose. It's so creepy and surreal and the song is awesome.

Could you do an evolution of Oswald the lucky rabbit's voice?

Harriet Lee was "INTERESTING" (I Don't really care for it) P.S. It's Funny to see Betty and Bimbo Being the same Height as bimbo in bum bandit

12:24 Fahn's rendition is essentially a cheerier, higher pitched Gaz from Invader Zim, and that's probably as scary as Gaz herself.

12:01 She came back

Harriet's take might be odd when compared to the rest of her voices but in the case in that short, it kinda fits her personality.

9:02 Popeye in Betty Boop

I love it. Lots of Bettys. I’ve thought , after seeing and hearing her Queens accent in the movie ‘Vibes’, that Cindy Lauper could do a great Betty. After seeing all of these, I’m pretty sure of it. I wonder if we’ll ever get that chance...

Betty's clothes had a mysterious way of flying off her!

I don't think any mainstream cartoon character "morphed" as much as Betty Boop. She's almost unrecognizable in the very early ones where it's primitive rubber hose animation and she has ears like a dog. Eventually she ended up as a matron in knee-length skirts. Kind of sad, because she was meant to be a sexpot and naughty flapper.

Mae Questel still the best

I feel like the last Betty boop honestly sounds like well not like Betty boop in my opinion Mae questel did the best Betty boop voice

BETTY IS SUCH A QUEEN SHE SLAYS

Of the classic Betty's, Mae Questal was my fav (I had no idea she was Betty in Roger Rabbit. Awesome seeing them go out of their way authenticity and giving Mae one last hurrah)...But really, all of them (with the minor expection of Poe) did a good job... Of the modern Betty's (1980 and onward), I felt Melissa Fahn (tho her accent wasn't always consistent) did the best. Loved her singing as Betty. I REALLY like Desiree's protrayal (easiest on the ears), but the accent doesn't quite show enough from a purist standpoint. Cindy's nailed the accent best (tho forced at some points, but not that bad), but I felt her voice octave too low from Betty (but I wouldn't be shocked if she was in the top running if Betty gets a new show or movie). Victoria, Sandy, Leanne, Halley, and Bard aren't that great or couldn't didn't do an accent at all or consistently. So not in the running imo.

I feel like Mae Questel and Bonnei Poe are the best by far. The other ones just don`t cut it for me.

Silent movie actress name Cara bow hair look like Betty boop

Happy 90th Birthday Betty Boop!

Betty boop & popeye the best old timey cartoon characters ever created!!

I’d say bet most iconic voice actresses were Mae Questel, Bonnie Poe, and Ann Little.

Baby Esther was before Helen Kane-

You forgot her appearance in Project Runway All-Stars.

pvta que miedo da betty en 1930 ._ .

2:26-What Is That Mouth Movement

Mae, Margie, Desiree, Sandy, and Cindy are my top 5 favorites voice actresses for Betty.