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Betty's Legal Troubles All was not wine and roses for Betty. In April 1934, Helen Kane,
whose popularity had waned since her debut in 1929, filed suit against
Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios and Paramount Pictures for $250,000.
She claimed that Betty Boop had stolen her fans. Max Fleischer gave testimony
that Betty Boop was not based on Helen Kane (which was untrue -
Kane was one of the main inspirations for Betty, though she developed
other features on her own as the years progressed.)
Five of the women who had been the voice for Betty Boop appeared in
court to deny that they had attempted to imitate Kane's voice.
The judge even watched and compared several of Betty's cartoons
with some of Helen Kane's films. There was testimony that the "Boop Oop a Doop"
phrase came long before Kane's popularity, as one witness claimed to have heard
the phrase uttered in an Edith Griffith song. And on May 2nd, Paramount Pictures
was able to locate a film clip of another singer, Baby Esther,
who used the same phrase in a song in 1928.
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