A deeper look at the Harlem Renaissance child star whose baby-voice jazz performances shaped one of America’s most ...

With a new, exclusively curated exhibit, San Diego’s Comic-Con Museum is celebrating the more than 90-year legacy of Betty Boop, whose child-like voice and pin-curl hair won the hearts of adult ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers, a 23-year-old African American actress, is set to take the lead in “BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” that will debut on Broadway. The musical, which promises to bring Betty’s charm to ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life and Times of Betty ...

For the 2021 BET Awards, host Taraji P. Henson introduced the City Girls by sharing a brief history of twerking. Her makeup, hair and outfit during the historical breakdown channeled 1930s cartoon ...

NEW YORK — In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time.

When Jasmine Amy Rogers learned of her Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in Boop! The Musical, she was stunned. Rogers has been working toward this moment for years. A finalist at the Jimmy ...

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One was the creator of a squeaky-clean mouse named Mickey, the other the brains behind a squeaky-voiced flirt with the catchphrase “Boop-oop-a-doop.” But the two great American animators — Walt Disney ...