Performances in N.Y.C. From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop! Credit ...

Betty Boop was a dog. Pardon the expression. It's just a fact. Betty was a French poodle when she made her first movie appearance in "Dizzy Dishes," a short cartoon released Aug. 9, 1930.

The character was originally created in the mode of an anthropomorphic French poodle. Max Fleischer finalized Betty Boop as completely human by 1932 in the cartoon Any Rags. Her floppy poodle ears ...

Boop!” makes a fresh star of the classic cartoon, while “Smash” banks on the rhythms of background television.

From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!