Kane was an American popular singer and her signature song was "I Wanna Be Loved By You." Kane's voice and appearance were a likely source for Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick when creating Betty Boop. By the time she was 15 years, Kane was onstage professionally, touring the Orpheum Circuit with the Marx Brothers in "On the Balcony."

Kane's career break came in 1927, when she appeared in a musical called A Night in Spain. It ran for a total of 174 performances. Kane's first performance at the Paramount Theater in Times Square proved to be her career's launching point. She was singing "That's My Weakness Now," when she interpolated the scat lyrics "boop-boop-a-doop." This resonated with the flapper culture, and four days later, Helen Kane's name went up in lights.

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