Vtg Betty Boop Hat Snapback Red Cap Universal Cartoon Classic Patch 1996 King Features Syndicate. Universal Studios.

“ HAPPY YOU AND MERRY ME” 1933

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick.

She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She was featured in 90 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.

A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable". Although she was toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the world's best-known and most popular cartoon characters.

Name:

"Happy You And Merry Me" by Mae Questel

Audio:

Happy You and Merry Me:

Lyrics:

Who's young and healthy

Cross your heart and confess

Happy you and merry me

Oh, who's brought the ticket

For the joy town express

Happy you and merry me

Though Mr. Gloom may chase us

We'll dodge him everyday

Say, who's feeling fine and dandy

Can't you see

Happy you and merry me

Bop!