Is My Palm Read

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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
- Dave Fleischer
- Dave Tendlar
Stars
- Billy Murray
- Mae Questel

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6.5/10

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Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Dave Tendlar
Stars
- Billy Murray
- Mae Questel

See production info at IMDbPro

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Billy Murray

Bimbo
(voice)
(uncredited)

Mae Questel

Betty Boop
(voice)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Betty 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.

Goofs
There is no obvious reason why a jungle hut on a tropical island would have an active fireplace.

Alternate versions
20th-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.

Connections
Edited into RCN TV Halloween Horror Movie Marathon: The Screaming Sulk (2017)

Soundtracks
Betty 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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Featured review

10/10

The Hays Office would have had a coronary with this one!

There are scenes in this short, although incredibly tame today, that probably shocked the various moral watchdogs of 1933 and clearly the soon to be created Hays Office would NOT have been happy with this short. I think it's simply wonderful. Bimbo and Koko are both in this one and this is a prime example of what can be done with animation when the animators realize that the intended audience was composed not only of children, but adults as well and that not all adults are blue-haired little old ladies or Bible salesmen from Topeka, Kansas. The Fleischers did some marvelous work and this is an excellent sample of that work. In print and available. Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.