No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
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{{Infobox film
| name = No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
| image =
| caption =
| director = Dave Fleischer
| story = {{ubl | William Turner| Jack Ward | Thomas Johnson}}(all uncredited){{Cite web|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/fleischers-animated-news-6/|title=Fleischer's Animated News #6|date=2013-05-29|access-date=2024-12-19|website=Cartoon Research|last=Beck|first=Jerry}}
| animator = {{ubl | Edward Nolan | Myron Waldman | Hicks Lokey (unc.) | Lillian Friedman (unc.) | Herman Cohen (unc.) | Paul Fennell (unc.)}}
| starring = Mae Questel
| music =
| producer = Max Fleischer
| studio = Fleischer Studios
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1935|05|24}}
| color_process = Black-and-white
| runtime = 7 minutes
| language = English
}}
No! No! A Thousand Times No!! is a 1935 Fleischer Studio animated short film, starring Betty Boop.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/54 54]-56}}
This is the third of a series of Betty Boop melodrama spoofs, which also included She Wronged Him Right (1934), Betty Boop's Prize Show (1935) and Honest Love and True (1938).{{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=February 9, 2020}}
Synopsis
Betty is performing on-stage with her boyfriend, Freddy, in an old-fashioned melodrama, complete with mustachioed villain. The vile fiend, after tying up the hero, tempts Betty with diamonds and fur, but she replies by singing the title song. The villain kidnaps Betty and escapes in his balloon, but is eventually caught by Freddy and forced to release Betty.
Song
The title song was written by Al Sherman, Al Lewis, Abner Silver in 1934, and sung by Mae Questel. The song was covered by Percival Mackey and his Orchestra featuring a vocal by Bobbie Comber in October of the same year. It was again covered in the 1960s by Beatrice Kay.
References
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External links
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- No! No! A Thousand Times No!! at [https://archive.today/20130118060820/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1592-No!_No!_A_Thousand_Times_No!!.html the Big Cartoon Database].
- No! No! A Thousand Times No!! on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnJb2kCg0M4 YouTube].
- {{IMDb title|0026788}}
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Category:Songs written for films
Category:Songs written by Al Sherman
Category:Songs written by Al Lewis (lyricist)
Category:Songs written by Abner Silver
Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Category:1935 animated short films
Category:Paramount Pictures short films
Category:Fleischer Studios short films
Category:American black-and-white films
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