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She brought to life the Betty Boop character of Max Fleischer cartoons. The character was originally a dog with droopy ears and a similar squeaky voice. In 1932 the dog was transformed into the iconic Betty.

At the peak of her flapper fame, there were Helen Kane dolls and Helen Kane lookalike contests.

In 1939 she married performer Dan Healy, with whom she had worked in the show "Good Boy", back in 1928. Together, they opened a restaurant in New York, known as "Healy's Grill". She remained married to Healy for the rest of her life.

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!".

In 1932 she filed suit against Max Fleischer, his studio and Paramount Pictures, charging unfair competition and wrongful appropriation for the Betty Boop cartoons. The trial dragged on for two years and, although the animated star was an obvious caricature of Helen, she lost the case.

Earned $5,500 a week in the Oscar Hammerstein show, "Good Boy".

Was on-stage professionally by the time she was 15, touring the Orpheum Circuit with The Marx Brothers.

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.

Dubbed Debbie Reynolds (I)' singing of "I Want To Be Loved By You" in Three Little Words (1950).

Her mother's name was Ellen Dixon Schroeder.

Spent the early 1920s trouping in vaudeville as a singer and kickline dancer with a theater engagement called the "All Jazz Revue.".

Her father was German, and her mother was an Irish woman who worked in a laundry facility.

Attended Saint Anselm's Parochial School in the Bronx during her childhood.

Ex-daughter-in-law of Gertrude Hoffman.

Kane recorded 22 songs between 1928 and 1930.

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.