#Good golly betty boop original archive#

Natwick felt that the Fleischers had treated him badly, so he got a lawyer, and sued the Fleischer Studios. Natwick asked the Fleischers about the licensing of the 'Betty Boop' character, the Fleischers told him to 'never call again' and hung up the phone on him. Natwick called Max, but Richard Fleischer came and told him that his father Max was sick, and should not be disturbed. Many years later Natwick found out that, he did not own the character, and that Max had licensed Betty to a third-party.

Uncredited for his later work, Natwick helped animate on one of the several final cartoons to feature Betty, the animation Musical Mountaineers, Dobbs stated that Natwick told him that after animating that cartoon Max promised to give him the 'Betty Boop' character as a gift. After Natwick passed away, Dobbs was asked to sort through his storage artwork. Natwick shared rare stories with Dobbs about his past, and what it was like working for the Fleischer Studios. Years later, when Natwick went to the 'LA County Museum of Art' to watch Dizzy Dishes with Dobbs, he was upset, and stated that way back in 1930, his assistants had messed up his lip-sync animation sequence for Betty Boop's debut. Earlier on, a majority of the early Fleischer animation staff, were not very good at animating female characters. In one of the earlier concept artworks, Natwick wrote, 'Boo hoo! Eggy made me!' and Natwick also wrote that Rudolph Eggeman's drawings were messy.

#Good golly betty boop original archive#

Dobbs, in comparison to Richard Fleischer's claims of Natwick only 'drawing' Betty Boop, American producer of animation Stephen Worth of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive 'owned' the original Betty Boop concept artworks by Natwick, proving Natwick to be the creator of Betty Boop. Natwick later designed a Betty Boop-like character called Fifi for the Flip the Frog series.Īccording to historian Gordon M. Dave Fleischer told Natwick that Mickey Mouse has Minnie Minnie, and asked if Natwick thought that Bimbo needed a girlfriend. Legal ownership of the Betty Boop character remained with the studio (as Natwick was an employee), Natwick created the original design of Betty Boop at the behest of studio head Max Fleischer, who requested a girlfriend for his successful creation Bimbo.

Natwick is best known for drawing Fleischer Studios most popular character Betty Boop, under the direction of Max Fleischer and his brother Dave Fleischer. Others included 'Shin-Me-Sha-Wabble,' 'My Favorite Rag,' 'You're the Only One,' 'Dancing Down in Dixieland,' 'Come to Araby,' 'I'm A Real Kind Mama,' 'Livery Stable Blues,' 'You're The Only One,' 'Dublin Mary Brown,' and 'Caberavings'. One of Natwick's notable song sheets included a the Jelly Roll song 'I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This' by Spencers Williams and Clarence Williams.

Natwick found that he was good at this type of work and contacted other publishers in Chicago, eventually illustrating the covers for many song sheets, usually in no more than two colors. In his early career, he did cover designs for sheet music, initially for a friend who worked at a music publishing company. Myron 'Grim' Natwick (Aug– October 7, 1990) was an American artist, animator and film director.