Jasmine Amy Rogers is the breakout star of the Broadway season for her Tony-nominated performance as cartoon siren Betty Boop ...

But Betty Boop, the 1930s icon the show is based on ... At the character’s peak, her iconic look that’s still well-known today was a flapper minidress, hoop earrings and a garter above ...

Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips ...

As she came into womanhood, Brigante, who once won a Betty Boop look-alike contest, says she identified with the animated Jazz Age flapper, whom she describes as “very much a feminist icon.” ...

Making Betty Boop a draw 95 years after she debuted. At this point, the icon isn’t really nostalgic to anyone or at the top of anybody’s mind. Whatever you may feel about the big-eyed flapper ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...

Betty Boop has tumbled out of her black-and-white cartoon world into moden-day New York City with all its vibrant sights and sounds. It's a big adventure for our 1930s flapper girl, and an even ...

Betty Boop was a dog. Pardon the expression ... Jasmine Amy Rogers plays the flapper with the wide eyes, short skirts and baby-girl voice who was originally inspired by the "boop-oop-a-doop ...

Betty Boop never really went away ... This time, the chirpy, high-pitched flapper with the unmistakable bob serves as the inspiration and jumping-off point for the new, fish-out-of-water musical ...

The company owned the rights to several golden-age cartoon characters and needed someone to do a few drawings of the lithesome, flirty, baby-voiced flapper Betty Boop. The one-day gig turned into ...

NEW YORK — In high-school choir, Jasmine Amy Rogers discovered Audra McDonald, the six-time Tony-winning Broadway legend. “I cried the first time I heard her voice,” recalls Rogers, 26.