In fact, there were laws during a significant part of that period that barred their ancestors from filing lawsuits or testifying in court when they wanted to prove that their inventions and patent ideas had been stolen. In 1928 or most likely the early 20's Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's act in the Cotton Club in Harlem, and most likely "definitely" took her style, as you know African American have received credit for various inventions and patent ideas in America, if not most, cases, inventions and patent ideas were systematically stolen from them by those who enslaved and otherwise oppressed them from the 17th to mid-20th centuries and thereabouts. She was given overdue tribute in the early 1950s. She appeared in a stage production called Shady Lady in 1933, and made appearances at various nightclubs and theatres & Radios during the 1930s After 1931 she lost the favour of the movie makers, who chose other singers for their films. With the hardships of the Great Depression biting, the flamboyant world of the flapper was over, and Kane's style began to date rapidly. Questel imitated the singer in vaudeville shows.Her stage work won her a contract to take over the cartoon voice of Betty Boop. "(Mae Questal) was only 17 when she won a contest to find a look-alike for Helen Kane, a singer then known as the boop-oop-a-doop queen. I suppose I used a French poodle for the basic idea of the character." -Grim Natwick, creator of Betty Boop and Snow White, on his inspiration for creating Betty Boop. So I just designed a little dog and put cute feminine legs on her and the earrings which developed later started out as long ears. "I had a song sheet of Helen Kane and the spit curls came from her. Neither her nor Uncle Dan drove, so we would pick them up in Jackson Heights and sing all the way." -Mickey, Helen's niece "In our neighborhood in the Bronx, Aunt Helen would sit on the stoop and sing for everyone. According to her, the audience went wild and she won the contest - beating out her own sister." -Melody, Gertrude's daughter and Helen's niece It was at this time, she said, she was inspired and added the famous 'boop boop a doop' into her song. had entered the contest and while she was on the side waiting, Aunt Helen was also asked to perform - because she was so cute and the management wanted her on stage. "I thought you might like to know that her first introduction to “show business” was when her older sister, Gertrude took her to a talent show. It's like vo-de-o-do, Crosby with boo-boo-boo, and Durante with cha-cha-cha." - Helen Kane, explaining the creation of her "boop-boop-a-doop" signature phrase. It's hard to explain - I haven't explained it to myself yet. I just put it in at one of the rehearsals, a sort of interlude. Helen Kane died of breast cancer in 1966 and had been married twice, and had "no children" and lives on in the hearts of people today like Cyndi Lauper, Ginger Pauley, Molly Ringwald, ect. I Wanna Be Loved By You has been performed by many artists and is still a popular song to this very day, since it first debuted by Helen Kane in the 1928 show Goodboy. Helen's signature song today can be heard by Betty Boop who has made it her own signature song, due to the fact that Marilyn Monroe, who was paying tribute to Kane in "Some Like It Hot" performed the song, Betty is mostly associated with pin-ups and Marilyn in general, so Betty made it her signature song. Helen Kane was half of the inspiration for the creation of "Betty Boop" the other half was Clara Bow. It had been discovered that Helen Kane had swiped the "Boop" scat singing style from a African American performer by the name of "Baby Esther" and used it in the show Goodboy in 1928. Her Signature song was I Wanna be Loved by you. Helen Kane (Aug– September 26, 1966) was a popular American Singer of the 1920's.
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