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Honest Love and True

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Honest Love and True
Directed byDave Fleischer
Animation byMyron Waldman
Lillian Friedman
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 25, 1938 (1938-03-25)
Running time
7 mins
LanguageEnglish

Honest Love and True is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and her stage partner who's similar to a Snidely Whiplash character, and also another character who's playing as what seems to be a park official.

This is the last in a series of Betty Boop melodrama spoofs, which also included She Wronged Him Right (1934), Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934) and No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935).[1]

Plot

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The plotline features Betty as a poor woman who became a singer in a Klondike saloon to avoid starvation, at the behest of her "rat" employer. Her song is lyrically about longing for a man to take her away from trouble, and then a man (who seems to be a national park official) comes by and feels allured by her song. The play then goes with Betty's employer pinning down the official to a wall and trying to kill him, while escaping to a remote cabin. The park official escapes and chases after them, then captures the employer, and the play ends.

References

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  1. ^ Pointer, Ray (2017). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland & Co. p. 106. ISBN 978-1476663678. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
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