A Language All My Own

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Synopsis

Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese.

Notes and comments

  • The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan.[1] Animator Myron Waldman, worried that Betty's gestures might offend the conservative Japanese audience, asked a group of Japanese college students to review his work.[2] Having Betty sing in Japanese also allowed her to slip a racy comment past the Hays Office: one of the lyrics in the Japanese song translates to "Come to bed with me and we'll boop-oop-a-doop!"[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 MYRON WALDMAN 1908-2006
  2. ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron

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