Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher 1932

 Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher

1932

Betty Boop, cartoon, Humor

Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop  cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.[1]

The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, runs away from home with her boyfriend Bimbo, and sings excerpts of the Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" (1911) and the song "Mean to Me" (1929).