Get Out and Get Under The Moon - Helen Kane 1928

Lively childish leading lady on stage and films during the transition to sound. She began on stage at seventeen and went on to films in 1929. She made several early talkies at Paramount but her popularity soon waned. Was the model for the famous cartoon character Betty Boop from the 1930s. Her trademark theme song, "I Wanna Be Loved by You", was interspersed with Betty's famous "boop-boop-bedoops!". She died at her home in the Jackson Heights area of New York City after a ten-year battle with breast cancer. She is buried at Veterans Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY.