Betty Boop's May Party

{{short description|1933 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Betty Boop's May Party

| image =

| caption =

| director = Dave Fleischer

| story =

| animator = David Tendlar
William Henning

| starring = Little Ann Little{{Cite book |title=Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70 |last=Scott |first=Keith |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2022 |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |page=334}}

| music = Duke Ellington ("It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing")

| producer = Max Fleischer

| studio = Fleischer Studios

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1933|05|12}}

| country = United States

| color_process = Black-and-white

| runtime = 7 minutes

| language = English

}}

Betty Boop's May Party is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Koko the Clown and Bimbo.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/54/mode/2up |pages=54–56}}

Plot

An elephant punctures a rubber tree, whose spraying sap turns the whole town rubbery. Betty and the gang use their newfound limberness to dance and sing.

In the film, Betty sings "Here We Are", written by Harry Warren and Gus Kahn.

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