Honest Love and True
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{{Infobox film
| name = Honest Love and True
| director = Dave Fleischer
| animator = Myron Waldman
Lillian Friedman
| studio = Fleischer Studios
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1938|03|25}}
| color_process = Black-and-white
| runtime = 7 mins
| language = English
}}
Honest Love and True is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and her stage partner who's similar to a Snidely Whiplash character, and also another character who's playing as what seems to be a park official.
This is the last in a series of Betty Boop melodrama spoofs, which also included She Wronged Him Right (1934), Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934) and No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935).{{cite book |last1=Pointer |first1=Ray |title=The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer |date=2017 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476663678 |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghluDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA106|access-date=9 February 2020}}
Plot
The plotline features Betty as a poor woman who became a singer in a Klondike saloon to avoid starvation, at the behest of her "rat" employer. Her song is lyrically about longing for a man to take her away from trouble, and then a man (who seems to be a national park official) comes by and feels allured by her song. The play then goes with Betty's employer pinning down the official to a wall and trying to kill him, while escaping to a remote cabin. The park official escapes and chases after them, then captures the employer, and the play ends.
References
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External links
- Honest Love and True at the [https://archive.today/20130117181544/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1563-Honest_Love_And_True.html Big Cartoon Database].
- {{IMDb title|0030244}}
{{Betty Boop films}}
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Category:1930s American animated films
Category:1938 animated short films
Category:Paramount Pictures short films
Category:Fleischer Studios short films
Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Category:American animated black-and-white films
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