Minnie the Moocher is a 1932 Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.

[3] The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of the famous musician Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "St. James Infirmary".

Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus-like apparition appears (voiced by and rotoscoped to Calloway), who sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song.

Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on.

The Film Daily, on January 10, 1932, wrote: "This Max Fleischer musical cartoon is one of the best turned out so far with the cute pen-and-ink star, Betty Boop, who seems to be getting more sexy and alluring each time, and her boyfriend, Bimbo.