Betty Boop Minnie the Moocher (1932)

Betty Boop Cab Calloway Minnie the Moocher

Minnie the Moocher is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.

The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of “St. James Infirmary“. Then Betty 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).

Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway’s voice, sings “Minnie the Moocher” and dances to the melancholy song. Various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things join Calloway in the performance. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on.

They both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving “Home Sweet Home” on it.

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