''She Wronged Him Right'' is a 1934

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animated short film starring

Betty Boop Betty Boop is a cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the '' Talkartoon'' and ''Betty Boop'' film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pic ...

. It marks the first appearance of Betty's semi-regular boyfriend, Fearless Fred. This is the first of a series of Betty Boop

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spoofs, which also included '' Betty Boop's Prize Show'' (1934), '' No! No! A Thousand Times No!!'' (1935) and '' Honest Love and True'' (1938). The series was apparently inspired by the

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series of Fanny Zilch cartoons.

Plot

Betty Boop appears in a stage play, complete with obvious theatrical backdrops. Betty doesn't have the money to pay the mortgage, so the dastardly villain Heeza Rat threatens to foreclose unless Betty agrees to marry him. The villain threatens Betty in various ways, even almost drowning her until the handsome and muscular Fearless Fred comes to her rescue.

References

External links

She Wronged Him Right on Youtube''She Wronged Him Right'' at IMDB
1934 films Betty Boop cartoons 1930s American animated films 1934 animated short films Paramount Pictures short films Fleischer Studios short films Short films directed by Dave Fleischer American animated black-and-white films {{BettyBoop-animation-film-stub