Ever wonder about Grim Natwick's earliest career...???

[Sogturtle]

Hey guys... I mean have you ever really, really wondered what Grim Natwick (Betty Boop, Flip, Snow White) did in the early part of the century? Think about it, Grim was born in 1890 , so he actually had time to have a whole separate career before he meandered his way into the world of silent animation and then sound cartoons and the creation of La Boop.

For the curious......and the unpolitically correct ;)


http://abacus.sj.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_72212fb7ebc9c5e23d2be75166/i-1.JPG

http://abacus.sj.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_e873a6debab5b282229b6fbf4/i-1.JPG

[J Lee]

Ah, the decadent 1920s, and it was probably even worse for Grim when he was off painting in Weimar Germany, where he no doubt got at least a few of his ideas that mixed with Helen Kane's stage personna to form Ms. Boop's original screen image (Grim also managed to put a couple of pre-code crotch shots into Betty's number in "Dizzy Dishes," no doubt from all that bohemian stuff he was doing before settling in at the Fleischer Studio. Oh well, she was still supposed to be a dog at that time anyway...)