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Esther Lee Jones, Helen Kane and the real story of Betty Boop

Betty Boop first appeared in Fleischer cartoons as a girlfriend or sidekick (image via Picryl)

Betty Boop always found herself in the weirdest, scariest, most bizarre situations. As her animator Max Fleischer told his team, “If you can do it in real life, why animate it?” And so between 1930 and 1939, Betty Boop, originally dreamed up as a caricature of …