For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.
- Directors
- Stars
Billy Murray
- Bimbo
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Betty Boop
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Dave Tendlar(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBetty Boop appears dressed very scantily in this risqué short. Starting the next year, 1934, the Hays Office began cracking down on cartoon shorts, resulting in Betty's transformation into a more subdued, modest character.
- GoofsThere is no obvious reason why a jungle hut on a tropical island would have an active fireplace.
- Alternate versions20th-century television and VHS editions often made the following cuts, to excise the more risque and politically incorrect gags:
- Professor Bimbo's flashing neon sign is edited to eliminate a mildly obscene hand gesture.
- When the modestly dressed Betty enters the fortune telling studio, Bimbo and Koko shine a light on her to turn her skirt transparent, and she starts to dance like Little Egypt. The cut to this part also resulted in the loss of the "walk this way" gag.
- The crystal ball's "memory" of Betty as a nude infant is left out.
- When Betty washes up on the island, a hand-shaped wave grabs her ass and she tells it to "keep your hands to you". Then when she is putting her clothes out to dry, a turtle runs off with her dress. Left in her bra and girdle, she fashions a hula-girl bikini from palm fronds, and starts singing Irving Berlin's "All By Myself". The cut version jumps from her landing on shore fully clothed, to the first line of her song, making her costume change inexplicable.
- When the ghosts first appear, the cut omits the last one, a "Jewish moneylender" caricature.
- ConnectionsEdited into RCN TV Halloween Horror Movie Marathon: The Screaming Sulk (2017)
- SoundtracksBetty Boop
(uncredited)
Music by Johnny Green
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Sung during the opening credits
Played again when Betty pulls the cat's tail and Koko answers the door
Played again when Betty enters the elevator
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Betty--Future Past
Bimbo and Koko run a place where Bimbo is a fortune teller. Betty, in a sort of Southern Belle dress comes in to have her future told. The guys have a crystal ball that shows Betty as a baby. She looks exactly now except for the fact that she is tiny girl in the nude. They then shift to her coming on shore after a shipwreck and being captured by ghosts. This makes no sense but it's still a great deal of fun. Eventually, the whole gang gets back together.
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- Fortune Teller
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- Runtime5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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