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Honest Love and True (1938)

Honest Love and True poster
Directed by
Dave Fleischer
Genre
animation, comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Betty Boop gets into a melodramatic adventure with a villain and a Canadian Mountie. It is a cartoon parody of old-fashioned stage dramas.

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What happens

Honest Love and True is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, a Snidely Whiplash-style villain, and another character playing a Canadian Mountie. 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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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