little girl, or a grown up girl with a sexy look about mae questel became the voice of and model for betty boop in 1931. "i always acted like her. and i still can do her voice if i want to, you know, way up high, boop, boop oop a doop." (laughing) after questel came on board, betty morphed from dog to human being, her long, floppy ears replaced by large hoop earrings. being, her long, floppy ears replaced by large hoop earrings. "we like to boop a doop. boop boop a doop and that's my weakness now." the hit 1932 cartoon, 'stopping the show,' made her a full fledged star and talkartoons was renamed betty boop cartoons. she went on to imitate other stars of the day like maurice "hello beautiful! how'd you get so beautiful?" but over the next several years, the production code tamed betty's wardrobe and persona and the last cartoon was created in 1939. fifty years later, betty made a triumphant comeback in the 1988 film 'who framed roger rabbit?' "boop boop a doop." and two years after that, betty celebrated her sixtieth birthday still as sexy as ever. celebrated her sixtieth birthday still as sexy