But she never had the same success as Bow, and Kane’s career as said many times before had fizzled out by 1931. Of course Helen Kane herself was a Clara Bow copy-cat in her earlier career, and rival at one point. I’ve even heard that Marlene Dietrich had some kind of inspiration on the character too, and many other vamps of the 20s and 30s. When they redesigned, Betty to be more sexy, they were not thinking of Helen Kane, actually they were thinking of someone like Clara Bow or a miniature version of Mae West, they even once referenced Greta Garbo. Helen Kane was a “little bit” of the inspiration for Grim Natwick when he created Betty Boop, but the Fleischers themselves, they didn’t really think of Kane as the model. ![]() It seems that Franklin was the only known person to originate this style during the 1900s. ![]() I carefully listened to some of Franklin’s baby-talk songs, and I thought, that sounds very similar to Betty Boop’s voice. I just can’t really explain it.īut these versions were more for entertainment not perversions. Impersonating a child!? Maybe? There’s no good way to describe “ adult baby dolls” today. Reading old articles they call that novelty act the “Kid” or “The Kid”. In her earlier career, she was best known for her baby-talk songs. In early reviews, she is referred to as the girl with the sweet, sweetest and gorgeous voice. This article was originally going to be titled “The Original Baby Doll” but I thought to keep her actual title. ![]() And according to alternative sources that I had came across, Franklin was also known as the “Queen of Vaudeville”. So today I thought why not give Irene Franklin her rightful credit as the original baby-talk singer.įranklin was known as the “Most Popular Woman in Vaudeville” which I saw on a blog called Travalanche, I did some quick research and everything on that blog has been researched thoroughly. Last time I covered a story about Gertrude Saunders the Queen of the Blues, and original scat-singing sensation and also indirect “Boop-Boop-a-Doop” girl.
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