However Helen Kane never told anyone that she herself was originally emulating or trying to emulate Clara Bow in her early career. But Grim Natwick throughout his life, told the actual story of the creation of Betty Boop and who they had used to create Betty, which was Helen Kane. But because Helen Kane sued and lost, the Fleischers after winning would never own up to it. Had Kane not sued them, they may have revealed this. Helen Kane was the initial base for Betty Boop, though this has been discredited and debated due to the Fleischers not telling the truth. And Kane also allowed people to 'copy' her, of course in time that would lead to the Fleischers and Paramount to think it would be okay to create a character based on her fame, because she allowed impersonation, and was originally quoted as being 'flattered' by Betty Boop. Kane did not pursue any other 'Boop' girl legally, but made a complaint against Mae Questel in 1930. Helen Kane though the 'first known' Booper in the business was not the only 'Boop-Boop-a-Doop' girl, there were many 'Boop-a-Doop' girls in the business. Because Betty Boop the character basically became her 'own being' instead of just a 'caricature' of Kane and had a complete different personality. She is her own character, regardless of Helen Kane being the initial source for the creation. Though Grim Natwick's interviews and his statements contridict this. And Max Fleischer and the Fleischer Studios of today, often state that 'Betty' was based on nobody. However, the Fleischer Studios often discredit Grim Natwick. In Grim Natwick's interviews, he said that he and Dave Fleischer both thought that Helen Kane was indeed the best person to use at the time to create Betty because she was a 'popular' nightclub singer at the time of Betty's creation and all the 'teenage girls' of the 1930s emulated that style. Kane lost her lawsuit because she didn't have enough evidence in court and could not 'copyright' a voice, or prove that Betty was a caricature of her. In 1932, Kane launched a $250,000 Infringement Lawsuit for unfair competition. After Betty's debut Paramount Pictures who Helen Kane used to work for, and the Fleischer Studios decided to cash in on her success at the time, which was very short lived as Kane's career had fizzled by 1931. Betty in her initial debut had no race because she was a 'dog woman' and was a caricature and or parody of Helen Kane. Helen Kane was an American, a New Yorker who lived in the Bronx who was of Irish-German descent. Though Betty Boop was often portrayed in person and voiced by Mae Questel a known 'Helen Kane' impersonator who did the voice-over and singing in the cartoons, when Betty was initially created Grim Natwick had used a photograph of Helen Kane to create Betty Boop for the 1930 short Dizzy Dishes. If Jones had a problem, she would not have paid Helen Kane tribute. Jones was possibly aware of Kane emulating her scat singing style but did not mind and was flattered. Esther Jones was one of the latter, she was a 'Boop' girl in that very MGM film short and Jones was paying tribute to Helen Kane who she'd met at the Everglades earlier that year. McGoldrick make a decision to rule in favor of the Fleischers, which is that Helen's claim to the 'Boop' was common to a 'number' of Boopers. Baby Esther scatting in that soundtrack footage, among other evidence given in court, is what helped the Edward J. Without the old soundtrack footage of Esther Jones scatting in an early recording of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Shorts: Little Esther by MGM today there would probably be no Betty Boop. Esther Jones was used to protect the legacy of Betty Boop in court. Actually the method was quite common to a galaxy of performers. Esther is considered to be the 'original' Booper because Jones alternatively used that gimmick, way back in 1925, long before Betty Boop and Helen Kane debuted their scat routines. The origin of Baby Esther's ' Wha-Da-Da' and or a ' Roop-Woop-a-Woop' links to Helen Kane's ' Poop-Poop-a-Doop,' ' Boop-Boop-a-Doop' and Betty Boop's ' Boop-Oop-a-Doop' routines. Correct information is that Esther Jones inspired Helen Kane to scat sing way back in 1928, As of 1930 Kane went on to inspire Betty Boop to use a similar gimmick and scat sing in her cartoons.

Natwick used a photograph of Helen Kane to create Betty Boop, he did not say he had used 'Esther Jones' as the model, as Esther was a child performer who is said to have been around '10-years-old' or '11-years-old' in 1930. The Fleischer Studios had no idea who Esther Jones was.

That is not true, that is hearsay and is false information. But misinformation in the video is that Betty Boop was inspired by a Black woman. The video is a great tribute to Betty Boop and Esther Jones and has been viewed over 4,692,787 times.

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