Minnie the Moocher
part of Betty Boop and Talkartoons

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You is a 1932 American Pre-Code Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo. The cartoon features music by and a special guest appearance from jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra playing "You Rascal You". The title of the film comes from the song, written by Sam Theard in 1931. The film is now in the public domain. After a live action introduction featuring Louis Armstrong and his orchestra, the short opens in the jungle, with Betty being carried on a litter by Bimbo and Koko. A horde of African savages descends on the trio, and runs off with Betty. Koko and Bimbo try to find the missing Betty, but end up in the cannibals' cooking pot. They climb a tree and escape, but are pursued by the enormous disembodied head of a savage (with the voice of Louis Armstrong). Koko and Bimbo eventually find Betty tied to a stake, surrounded by dancing natives. Koko and Bimbo help Betty escape by firing porcupine quills at the savages. The trio races off, hotly pursued by spear-tossing natives. The three finally reach safety after crossing a mountain, the erupting peak of which flings the savages into space. --- Ooo, boop boopie doopie Oh, Bimbo, Koko, save me! This way. Oh, wait'll I get those babies. I tell you, I'll break 'em in two. Wait'll you see. I'll take 'em this way and that way. I'll make a hash and a baloney out of em. I'll make it so hot for them. I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you! Oh, you rascal, you! Boy, I brought you into my home; You wouldn't leave my wife alone; I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you. Now, I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you! I'll be tickled to death when you leave this earth, you dog! Hmmm, I took you for my friend, The way you bit me in the back was a sin; You ain't no good, you rascal, you! As I said before, I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you! Hmm, yea-ee-yea, you rascal, you! Boy, when you're laying six feet deep, No more fried chicken will you eat; Aw, you dog, I know that'll break your heart, ha, ha, ha, ha! Won't this ever stop? Boy! Boy, what is it that you've got That makes my wife think you're hot? Oh, you dog, you ain't no good. Naw! You bought my wife a bottle of Coca Cola, So you could play on her victrola; Ha, you dog! Yes, sir! No. I'll be glad when you're dead - I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you...oowehh. --- U.M.&M. TV Corp. presents Betty Boop cartoon Max Fleischer presents I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You Copyright MXMXXXI by Paramount Corporation All Rights Reserved Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Willard Bowsky and Ralph Somerville Recorded by Louis Armstrong and Orchestra Featuring Betty Boop assisted by Bimbo and Koko One Way Speedometer Miles Ashes The End A UM&M TV Corp. Presentation

Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. 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 strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, runs away from home with her boyfriend 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 empty eye-sockets 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. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues". --- Why don't you eat!? Why don't you eat?! Just tell me what. Why you don't eat your H___? ... once more tell you to eat then I will ... out ... Do you hear? ... Aw, come on, Betty. No. Oh, papa! What's the matter? They always, always pick on me They never, never let me be I'm so very lonesome, awfully sad It's a long time since I've been glad But I know what I'll do by and by I'll eat some worms and then I'll die And when I'm gone, you wait and see They'll all be sorry that they picked on me Uh, uh, now what... Hello, Bimbo? I'm leaving home. Yeah? I'll go with you. Meet me under your window. Okay. Yoo-hoo! I'm not afraid. Are you, Bimbo? No. Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a red-hot hoochie-coocher She was the roughest, toughest frail But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale Ho-dee-ho-dee ho Hi-dee-hi-dee-hi-dee Hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee Ho-dee-ho-dee ho She messed around with a bloke named Smokey She loved him though was cokey He took her down to Chinatown And he showed her how to kick the gong around Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi Yee-dee yee-dee yee-dee yee-dee yee Ho-dee-ho-dee ho-dee hey Ho-dee-ho-dee ho She had a dream about the King of Sweden He gave her things that she was needin' He gave her a home built of gold and steel A diamond car with a platinum wheel He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses Each meal she ate was a dozen courses She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes She sat around and counted them all a million times --- Talkartoons Max Fleischer presents Minnie the Moocher Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Willard Bowsky and Ralph Somerville Recorded by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra Featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo Ink Dear Ma & Pa, I'm leaving Home because you're not so Sweet to me. I won't ever be Home again! Betty Home Sweet Home The End

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle is a 1932 Fleischer Studios Betty Boop animated short, directed by Dave Fleischer. It is now public domain. After a short live action performance by the Royal Samoans, Bimbo appears on screen playing a ukulele while riding in a motorboat. The motorboat goes faster and faster, until it crashes into a tropical island. Bimbo flies into the air and lands in another boat with a topless (except for a strategically placed lei) and dark-skinned Betty Boop in it. Bimbo and Betty, after nearly falling down a waterfall, are flung from the boat into a clearing surrounded by hostile trees, who torment the two. A group of savages appears, but Bimbo disguises himself by painting his face and sticking a bone in his hair. Bimbo is treated as an honored guest, and Betty dances the hula. A sudden rainstorm washes off Bimbo's disguise, and he and Betty are chased by the savages until they reach Betty's canoe and take off down the river. When it seems that they are alone, the two proceed to kiss in private behind an umbrella (with a convenient hole). --- Made of pen and ink She can win you with a wink (yoo hoo) Ain't she cute? Boop boopie doop Sweet Betty Holy shmack. What's your name? My name is Bimbo. Can you sing, Bimbo? I will if you play for me. Okay. My own Iona, From old Halona, Your dark and dreamy eyes— They speak of paradise; My ukelele, Played the Mauna Loa gaily; Halona’s calling me, Iona dear, my own. Don't be scared, Bimbo. La la la la. Oh! You ain't seen nothing' yet. Watch me. Oh, dear. Is anybody lookin'? I'll fix that. --- U.M.&M. TV Corp. presents Betty Boop Cartoon Max Fleischer presents Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle Copyright MCMXXXII by Paramount Publix Corporation All Rights Reserved Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Seymour Kneitel and Bernard Wolf Recorded by The Royal Samoans Featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo The End A UM&M TV Corp. Presentation

At the inventor's show, Betty, Bimbo, and Koko the Clown demonstrate a variety of gadgets, including: The spot remover - a large steam-powered device that removes the spot by cutting a hole in the fabric. The chesse snuffer - a mechanical foot snuffs out the cigarette, then a mechanical hand sweeps it up. The soup silencer - parts from a music box are installed on a spoon to convert the slurps to music. The sweet corn regulator - a typewriter is adapted to position the corn for easy eating. The voice recorder The self-threading sewing machine - a mechanical hand and eyeball thread the needle. When the automated sewing machine gets out of control and proceeds to sew various things together, Bimbo and Betty escape via an umbrella that turns into a helicopter.

Snow-White, also known as Betty Boop in Snow-White, is a film in the Betty Boop series from Max Fleischer's Fleischer Studios directed in 1933. Dave Fleischer was credited as director, although virtually all the animation was done by Roland Crandall. Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow-White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation. Snow-White took Crandall six months to complete. A magic mirror, with a face resembling Cab Calloway, proclaims Betty Boop to be "the fairest in the land", much to the anger of the Queen (who resembles Olive Oyl). The Queen orders her guards Bimbo and Koko to behead Betty. With tears in their eyes, they take Betty into the forest and prepare to execute her. Betty escapes into a frozen river, which encloses her in a coffin of ice. This block slips downhill to the home of the seven dwarfs, who carry the frozen Betty into an enchanted cave. Meanwhile, Koko and Bimbo fall down a hole and arrive at the same cave (with the Queen, who turned herself into a Witch), where the evil Queen turns them into grotesque creatures as they sing the St. James Infirmary Blues. With her rivals disposed of, the Queen again asks the magic mirror who the fairest in the land is, but the mirror explodes in a puff of magic smoke that returns Betty and Koko to their normal states and changes the Queen into a hideous monster. The queen monster chases the protagonists until Bimbo grabs its tongue and, with one mighty yank, turns it inside out, leaving the skeleton monster to flee away. Betty, Koko, and Bimbo dance around in a circle of victory as the film ends. --- Made of pen and ink She can win you with a wink (yoo hoo) Ain't she cute? (boop boop be doop) Sweet Betty Magic Mirror in my hand Who's the fairest in the land? You're the fairest in the land You're the fairest in the land I wanna see my step-mama, step-mama, step-mama I wanna see my step-mama, a step-mama the queen I heard about your looking glass, looking glass, looking glass I heard about your looking glass, and what it says is so Magic Mirror in my hand Who's the fairest in the land? You're the fairest in the land You're the fairest in the land Off with her head! What a shame. Poor Betty. Always in the way I can never play My own mama would never stay I'm always in the way Oh, please don't leave me here alone. I don't wanna see. Save me! Save me! Save me! Thank you. Am I the fairest in the place? If I were you I'd hide my face. Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary See my baby there; She's stretched out on a long, white table She's so sweet, so cold, so fair Let it go, let it go, ohh bless her Wherever she may be She can search this whole wide world over But she'll never find another sweet man like me When I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches Put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat An' give me six crap shooting pall bearers Let a chorus girl sing me a song Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head So we can raise Hallelujah as we go along Folks, now that you have heard my story Say, boy, hand me another shot of that booze; If anyone should ask you You just tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues Magic Mirror in my hand, now who's the fairest in the land? You're the fairest in the land. --- U.M.&M. TV Corp. presents Betty Boop Cartoon Max Fleischer presents Betty Boop in Snow-White Copyright MCMXXXIII by Paramount Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Roland C. Crandall Passed by the National Board of Review Vocal Corus Saint James Infirmary Blues sung by Cab Calloway Betty Boop assisted by Bimbo and Koko Seven Dwarfs Mystery Cave 20, A The End A UM&M TV Corp. presentation

Betty Boop's Big Boss is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. An anthropomorphic pig puts an ad up for an employment ("Girl Wanted--Top Floor--Female Preferred"), and then walks off with the ladder strolling behind him. Betty walks by and responds to the ad along with an enormous group of fellow applicants. When the interviewing manager asks Betty what she can do, Betty replies in song that she can't type or take dictation, but that she can provide other benefits. The businessman sends the other applicants away via a trap door, and hires Betty. Betty is happy with her new job, but the boss soon takes liberties with his employee. Scared, Betty calls for help. The police arrive on the scene, making several futile attempts to enter the building. They finally whittle down the skyscraper by firing machine guns into it. Betty and her boss appear in silhouette behind the window shade, but when the shade is raised, the two are locked in an embrace. Betty exclaims "Fresh!" and pulls the shade back down for some privacy. (Lyrics) Oh, Betty, you knocked me for a loop de loop And Betty, each time you start Betty, it's time that we went steady Let's get ready for a weddy Betty, perhaps you'll ... a lullaby to a beddy by and by (Lyrics) Made of pen and ink She can win you with a wink (yoo hoo!) Ain't she cute (boop boop be doop) Sweet Betty Oh, oh! Not bad. What can you do? Well, I'm not so good in the crowd, but when you get me alone, you'd be surprised. I don't know how to type right, but baby if you take me home, you'd be surprised. ... don't judge a book by its cover... Aw, foowie! You'd be surprised. I didn't go to a school, but when I sit on your knee, you'd be surprised. First I want to answer your calls, I've got to admit that I'm nothing at all, but ... you'd be surprised. You're hired! Woopie! Hello, operator. A little service please. Thank you. Did I hurt my poopsie woopsie? It's alright, Betty. How 'bout a little kiss? Ah ah. Naughty, naughty. Help, help, police! Calling cars 4, 3, 2, 1. Calling cars 4, 3, 2, 1. Shift. Cars 4, 3, 2, 1, go to 4th and Main. Ha ha ha, I wanna play too! Oh, fresh! Betty Boop Cartoon Max Fleischer presents Betty Booop's Big Boss Copyright MCMXXXIII by Paramount Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Bernard Wolf and David Tendlar Western Electric Betty Boop Girl Wanted Top Floor Female Preferred Poleece Dept. P.D. PD Do not disturb Police Patrol The End

AKA: Betty Boop Meets Popeye the Sailor Popeye the Sailor is a 1933 animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. While billed as a Betty Boop cartoon, Betty Boop only makes a small appearance, as it actually starred Popeye the Sailor in his first animated appearance. The cartoon begins with stock film footage of newspapers rolling off a printing press. The front page of one of the newspapers appears, with a headline declaring that Popeye has become a movie star. The camera zooms in on the illustration of Popeye, which then comes to life, as Popeye (voiced by William "Billy" Costello) sings about his amazing prowess in his signature song "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man."[1] On land with his nemesis Bluto (voiced by William Pennell), the two sailors vie for the affections of Olive Oyl (voiced by Bonnie Poe). Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a carnival and pays the peacock 10¢ and Bluto blows off the peacock's feather. They play games and then they watch Betty Boop doing the hula. Popeye jumps up on stage, wraps the bearded lady's beard around his waist for a grass skirt, and dances with Betty. Bluto abducts Olive Oyl and ties her to a railroad track, using the track itself as "ropes", in order to cause a train wreck to kill Olive, where a train is approaching. Popeye defeats his enemy, and rescues Olive, but punches the approaching engine and its baggage car and coaches in the "face", and wrecks the whole train in a crushing halt and sparing Olive's life, thanks to his ever-reliable can of spinach.

The Old Man of the Mountain is a 1933 animated short in the Betty Boop series, produced by Fleischer Studios. Featuring music recorded by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, like in Minnie The Moocher, the short was originally released to theaters on August 4, 1933 by Paramount Productions. Calloway voices all of the characters in the cartoon save for Betty herself (talking voice provided by Bonnie Poe and singing voice provided by Mae Questel). Calloway and his orchestra also perform all of the music in the cartoon, including two songs Calloway co-wrote. The short begins with a live-action introduction of Calloway and his orchestra, who perform a short chorus of "Minnie the Moocher" (Calloway-Gaskill-Mills) before performing a vamp of the title song, "The Old Man of the Mountain" (Young-Hill (Brown)). As the cartoon proper begins, a lion on roller skates (made of rabbits) rushes from his guard post atop a mountain, racing into a nearby village shouting "Look out! The Old Man of the Mountain!" The lion's warning sparks a mass exodus of the other animals who pack up their things and start to flee as the lion continues to warn "Look out! The Old Man of the Mountain!" In time, Betty Boop emerges from a guest house in order to find out what is going on. She confronts a passing owl, who in song describes the Old Man of the Mountain, a predatory hermit who threatens the livelihood of the villagers, particularly the women. Despite the owl's warnings, Betty is curious and declares, "I'm going up to see that old man of the mountain", and starts a trek up the mountainside. She passes several people fleeing from the Old Man, including a woman pushing a carriage with her triplets—who look suspiciously like the Old Man of the Mountain. When Betty gets to the top of the mountain, the Old Man of the Mountain emerges from behind a rock. Over twice as tall as Betty, the Old Man backs the girl into his cave and, as Betty fights off his advances, begins to sing with her a duet of "You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along with Me)" (Robinson-Hill (Brown)). Betty loosens up and joins in, and the two begin to flirt with each other. After his first verse, the Old Man looms menacingly over Betty. "What'cha gonna do now?" Betty asks, frightened. "Gonna do the best I can," the Old Man replies, launching into a jazzy dance routine. The Old Man and Betty continue to dance together, but when the song is over, the Old Man makes a lustful grab for Betty, who runs for her life back down the mountainside. The Old Man gives chase, and grabs Betty just long enough to catch hold of her dress, which Betty jumps out of. As Betty finds refuge behind a large tree in her underwear, her dress comes to life and slaps the Old Man before running back to its owner. Betty climbs the tree to apparent safety, but as the Old Man comes over and attempts to coax her down with "The Scat Song" (Calloway-Perkins-Parish), he picks the tree up and bounces it on the ground, causing Betty to slide down. Before he can have his way with her, however, the animals from the village rally to Betty's aid and surround the Old Man, tying his arms and legs together by a tree. They then proceed to beat him up, tickle and humiliate him, thus exacting revenge for all the times he had made their lives a misery, with Betty watching with glee. (Lyrics) Yee de de de de hey Hi de hi de ho He de he de he Hey de hey de hey Hi de hi de hi Ho de ho de ho Hey de hey de hey The old man of the mountain Look out! Look out! The old man of the mountain! Look out! Look out! The old man of the mountain! Look out! Look out! The old man of the mountain! What's the matter? (Lyrics) Long white beard and a crooked stare Tramps along with a ??? With a tickle in his eye, he passes them by The old man of the mountain For he wears long hair and his feet are bare They say he's mad as a grizzly bear His hair is brown and his beard's snow white The old

Betty in Blunderland is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the white rabbit. She "awakes" just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass and disguises as Alice into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland and sings "How Do You Do" (to the tune of "Everyone Says I Love You") to them. When the Jabberwock steals Betty away, everyone comes to her rescue. Betty wakes up back in her living room, just in time to prevent the white rabbit from again escaping from her puzzle.

Betty Boop and Grampy is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy in his first appearance. It is also on 50 Classic Cartoons Volume 2. Betty receives an invitation to a party from her elderly relative, Grampy. As she strolls along singing "I'm On My Way to Grampy's", she is joined by two moving men, a fireman and a traffic cop-all who irresponsibly drop everything (including a piano, a burning house and a traffic jam) to go to Grampy's party. Grampy is an eccentric inventor, whose labor-saving devices are of the Rube Goldberg variety. For example, he has a device that moves his entire house to the front entrance whenever the doorbell is rung. The glass shade of his ceiling light is rigged to double as a punch bowl and he has modified an old umbrella to slice a cake into wedges. Grampy entertains his guests by building self-playing musical instruments out of household gadgets (which then play "Hold That Tiger"). Everyone dances until they drop from exhaustion, the exception being the exuberant Grampy. --- I'm on my way to Grampy Oh, he's such good company It's the only place to be (where?) Over at Grampy's house Da-De-De-De-Da-De-De It never is to late Da-De-De-De-Da-De-De He will always wait And when everybody's resting He's always full of pep (wee!) Everybody's gonna be (where?) Over at Grampy's house! Ba ba bum bum bum bum. Da da dee duh duh duh duh. *ring* Oh! Betty Boop. Thank you. Dear Betty, Am giving a little party. Come right over. Bring the gang. hhhh, Grampy! Wooo! Oh, I'm on my way to Grampy's For he's such good company It's the only place to be Over at Grampy's house! Oh, I'm on my way to Grampy's For he always treats me nice Always something on the ice (where?) Over at Grampy's house! Da-De-De-De-Da-De-De It never is to late Da-De-De-De-Da-De-De He will always wait Everybody's gonna be (where?) Over at Grampy's house! Oh, we're on our way to Grampy's, Wait for me, Betty! Oh, He's such good company It's the only place to be Over Grampy's house Oh, We're on our way to Grampy's For he always treats us nice Always something on the ice (where?) Over at Grampy's house! Da-De-De-De-Da-De-De It never is to late Da-De-De-De-Da-De-De He will always wait And when everybody's resting He's always full of pep Everybody's gonna be (where?) Right here at Grampy's house! That must be Betty and the gang. Okay, boys. Come on in. Hello, Grampy, dear. I brought you some company. How you doing? Hi, Grampy. How do you do, Grampy? Hey! Come on, folks. Have some punch. Look at that. What an idea. Thank you. Thanks. Down the hatch. Serve the cake, Betty. I sure will. Mmm, thanks. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Mmm, that's good. Say, Grampy. How about some music? Music, music? I don't know. Let me think. Music. I've got it! Hold the tiger, oo Hold the tiger, ooo Hold the tiger, ooo Hold it Hold the tiger, oo Hold the tiger, ooo Hold the tiger, ooo Hold the tiger now Wa da da dada da da da Oh, I'm getting woozy. Oh, I can't think. Am I tired. Hold the tiger Hold the tiger Don't let him go Hold the tiger Hold the tiger WHERE? Over at Grampy's house! --- Betty Boop Cartoon Adolph Zukor presents A Max Fleischer cartoon Betty Boop and Grampy Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by David Tendlar and Charles Hastings Dear Betty, Am giving a little party. Come right over. Bring the gang. Grampy Ring Bell, Potatoes The End

Betty Boop and the Little King is a 1936 Fleischer Studio animated short film, starring Betty Boop and featuring Otto Soglow's Little King. The Little King had appeared in several cartoons produced by Van Beuren Studios (1933–34). In those cartoons he was silent (as he had been in his comic strip). This short is the only one in which the Little King speaks. A special opera performance is held for the Little King and his queen, but the diminutive monarch is soon bored by the music. He sneaks out in search of some new entertainment, and spots a sign for Betty Boop at the local vaudeville theatre. After some difficulties getting a pretzel from a vendor, the curtain comes up on Betty's Wild West show. Betty performs several tricks with her horse, entrancing the monarch. He joins Betty on stage for a song and dance number, just in time to be caught by the angry queen. The monarchs leave in the royal carriage, with Betty (hiding on the fender) holding the Little King's hand. Ah ha. ? swell. Pretzels! Pretzels! Pretzels! Here. Over here. Throw me one, foodie. Pretzels. Hey, boy. Throw me some pretzels. Oh, you want all of 'em. There you go. Pwetzels! Pwetzels! Pwetzels here! Hello, everybody. Woo! Here we go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I thank you. May I ride your nice horse? I'll help you. Whoa! Ohhh! The king is gone! Where's the king? Where's the king? Where's the king? (Lyrics) Yip-e-i-yo Yippie-i-o I take a rope around wherever I go Pepper, salt, mustard, cider, vinegar, vinegar, vinegar, vinegar Yip-e-i-o Yippie-i-yo Carry a rope around wherever you go First spin it fast around and then turn it slow Pepper, salt, mustard, cider, vinegar, vinegar, vinegar, yippie! Oh no. My oh my. Betty Boop cartoon Adolph Zukor presents a Max Fleischer cartoon Betty Boop and the Little King Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Myron Waldman and Hicks Lokey By arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc. and O. Soglow Approved Certificate No 0623 Western Electric Noiseless Recording Passed by the National Board of Review Imperial Opera House Special Performance in honor of His Majesty The King Vaudville - Tonite Special Betty Boop Intermission

Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. 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 strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, runs away from home with her boyfriend 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 empty eye-sockets 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. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues". --- Why don't you eat!? Why don't you eat?! Just tell me what. Why you don't eat your H___? ... once more tell you to eat then I will ... out ... Do you hear? ... Aw, come on, Betty. No. Oh, papa! What's the matter? They always, always pick on me They never, never let me be I'm so very lonesome, awfully sad It's a long time since I've been glad But I know what I'll do by and by I'll eat some worms and then I'll die And when I'm gone, you wait and see They'll all be sorry that they picked on me Uh, uh, now what... Hello, Bimbo? I'm leaving home. Yeah? I'll go with you. Meet me under your window. Okay. Yoo-hoo! I'm not afraid. Are you, Bimbo? No. Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher She was a red-hot hoochie-coocher She was the roughest, toughest frail But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale Ho-dee-ho-dee ho Hi-dee-hi-dee-hi-dee Hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee Ho-dee-ho-dee ho She messed around with a bloke named Smokey She loved him though was cokey He took her down to Chinatown And he showed her how to kick the gong around Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi Yee-dee yee-dee yee-dee yee-dee yee Ho-dee-ho-dee ho-dee hey Ho-dee-ho-dee ho She had a dream about the King of Sweden He gave her things that she was needin' He gave her a home built of gold and steel A diamond car with a platinum wheel He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses Each meal she ate was a dozen courses She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes She sat around and counted them all a million times --- Talkartoons Max Fleischer presents Minnie the Moocher Directed by Dave Fleischer Animated by Willard Bowsky and Ralph Somerville Recorded by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra Featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo Ink Dear Ma & Pa, I'm leaving Home because you're not so Sweet to me. I won't ever be Home again! Betty Home Sweet Home The End