Making Stars
About Making Stars
Betty Boop hosts a stage revue called Making Stars and brings on the stars of tomorrow, all of them babies. A trio billed as the Colorful 3, drawn as Black infants, sings Hi De Ho. An Asian baby does a marksman act. A bouncing Russian baby is introduced as Little Miss Trotsky. Mae Questel supplies the voices.
Cast & crew
More about Making Stars
Dave Fleischer directed and Max Fleischer produced it for Fleischer Studios. Paramount released it on 18 October 1935. Animators on the short include Edward Nolan, Herman Cohen, Myron Waldman, Hicks Lokey, Lillian Friedman, Frank Endres, and Ted Vosk.
Themes
Background
A 1935 Paramount cartoon from the Fleischer studio's Betty Boop series, built as a miniature vaudeville bill.
In film history
The baby acts are drawn as ethnic caricatures, including a Black trio and an Asian marksman.
Music
Mae Questel voices Betty Boop and the babies. The Colorful 3 sing Hi De Ho.
Notes
- The Asian baby's act uses a clear early example of the oriental riff, the tune later tied to Kung Fu Fighting (1974).
- Mae Questel voices Betty and the babies.
- The short has been kept off many television packages because of the Black and Asian caricatures.
Scenes
- The Colorful 3 sing Hi De Ho.
- An Asian baby marksman performs to an oriental riff.
- Little Miss Trotsky bounces through a Russian turn.
