Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1935
A Language All My Own
Buy A Language All My Own now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'A Language All My Own' is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.
Synopsis
Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese.
Notes and comments
* The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan.[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/myron-waldman-1908-2006-1582.html MYRON WALDMAN 1908-2006 ] Animator Myron Waldman, worried that Betty's gestures might offend the conservative Japanese audience, asked a group of Japanese college students to review his work.[http://www.animationarchive.org/bio/2005/12/waldman-myron.html ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron]
References
Buy A Language All My Own now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1935