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unusual facts about Helen Kane


Clason Point, Bronx

Kanes' was a major saloon in the Clason Point area in the 1920s which featured Helen Kane, a singer who coined the phrase "Boop-oop-a-doop".


Booby Dupes

The title is a play on the line "boop-oop-a-doop" from the song "I Wanna Be Loved by You," made famous by singer Helen Kane and by the Fleischer Studios cartoon character Betty Boop.

Rosamonde Safier

Born to Joseph and Sarah Goldberg Safier in Monessen, PA, on September 9, 1912, the youngest of five siblings, “Rody” Safier composed twenty songs while still in high school, and played two of them for Helen Kane in the Stanley Theater.


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Baby Esther

In May 1932, Helen Kane filed a $250,000 lawsuit against Max Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corporation, contending that Betty Boop's "boop-oop-a-doop" style constituted a "deliberate caricature" that gave her "unfair competition."