Mae Questel
Birthday: Born in 1908-09-13 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 1998-01-04
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mae Questel (September 13, 1908–January 4, 1998) was an American actress and vocal artist best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, and played occasional small roles in films and television later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
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77 Sunset Strip
Character:
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their l...
Naked City
Character: Mrs. Annette Faber
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”....
Popeye the Sailor
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto....
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time....
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect....
Cookin' with Gags
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto disguises himself as a coy flapper and joins the class. Believing Bluto to be a woman, Popeye is very annoyed when Bluto tries to show him up....
The Farmer and the Belle
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by. They compete for the job. Chores: Getting water from a well, picking apples, shoeing a horse, gathering eggs. Popeye feeds a hen a little spinach, and she produces a mountain of eggs, which eventually end up all over Bluto. Bluto drops an anvil on Popeye, then goes after Olive against her wishes, chasing her into a succession of haystacks (where he finds a needle!). The chicken feeds Po...
Alpine for You
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick. Olive finally has had enough, and goes off with Bluto, who promptly gets her alone...
Olive Oyl for President
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform....
Firemen's Brawl
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house....
Wigwam Whoopee
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock....
A Bicep Built for Two
Character: Cute Kitty
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists the aid of Herman. Herman, with bad-intentions, puts Katnip through a muscle-building course which consists of weight-lifting, bar-chinning and equipment rigged with high explosives....
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Character: Aunt Bethany
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon....
Miners Forty Niners
Character: Gold Digger / Clementine
Singalong about the discovery of gold in California....
Tweet Music
Character: Little Eagle / Ostrich
Singalong with spot gags about birds....
Stork Raving Mad
Character: Baby / Mother
A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy in the process. The stork has a rush delivery, but the baby isn't ready to settle down yet....
The Cobweb Hotel
Character: Flies (voice)
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste....
Big Bad Sindbad
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl....
Child Sockology
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving....
Beaus Will Be Beaus
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting......
Swimmer Take All
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win. Some of the bits: Popeye's suit is connected to a fish hook; the fish unravels it and Popeye knits it back together. Bluto is on a raft and blows sneezing powder at Popeye. Bluto attaches a magnet to Popeye which attracts a mine (which ends up blowing Popeye much closer to the line). Bluto dumps a load of cement on Popeye....
Quick on the Vigor
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged....
Lunch with a Punch
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him....
Vacation with Play
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive....
Thrill of Fair
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, Olive, and Swee'pea take their pig, Smedley, to the fair to enter it in the livestock show. While Popeye is distracted, Swee'pea crawls off following his balloon and narrowly avoids all sorts of peril (that Popeye, close behind, manages to get caught by)....
Let's Stalk Spinach
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches....
Popeye Makes a Movie
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, which makes up over 80% of this release (beginning with Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy suffering in the desert), and despite admonitions, the nephews get involved a couple times, most notably tossing Popeye his can of spinach....
Jitterbug Jive
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them. Finally, Bluto pours quick-drying cement in the apple water and drives off with Olive. Popeye, encased in cement, rolls downhill into a vegetable shop, right next to a bin of spinach. Good thing, because Bluto's getting fresh i...
Beach Peach
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on....
Gym Jam
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off....
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller....
Snow Place Like Home
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre's Trading Post; unfortunately, Pierre has eyes for Olive....
It's Only Money
Character: Cecilia Albright
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?...
Ice Scream
Character: Billy (voice)
Caspar masquerades as a snowman and teaches a young boy to ice skate, so he can race with his older brother....
Popeye and the Giant
Character: Sea Hag (voice)
Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk. Brutus notices him and puts growth pills on a hamburger. Wimpy then eats it, and it causes him to grow very big. Brutus takes the towering moocher to the circus, but they refuse to hire him. Wimpy seeks help from the Sea Hag, who puts him in a baby carriage. Popeye sees his friend's large size and tries to shrink him down by feeding him spinach, but it only makes him grow bigger. He gives Wimpy a hamburge...
One Hour with You
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other....
The Lost Chick
Character: Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing....
Funny Girl
Character: Mrs. Strakosh
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein....
House Cleaning Blues
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!...
The Impractical Joker
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?...
Mess Production
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life....
For Better or Nurse
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The boys see lovely nurse Olive pass by and follow her to her hospital. She throws them out, so they scheme to hurt themselves enough to get hospitalized, with no luck. Bluto gets a wall to fall on him, but stands in the window. Popeye tries to get run over by a steam-roller, but a street cleaner saves him. Bluto dives off a skyscraper - into a huge pile of mattresses. Popeye stands in a naval gunnery range, but the gunners miss the target. Bluto taunts a bull, but stands next to a billboard of ...
Shape Ahoy
Character: Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck raft. They both pretend to ignore her, but woo her behind each other's back....
Barbecue for Two
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in....
New York Stories
Character: Mother
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen....
Taking the Blame
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty brings home a cat as a playmate for her pet puppy, Pudgy. The cat manages to get Pudgy blamed for all his misbehaviour....
The Candid Candidate
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy to be the new mayor and he wins. As soon as he takes office, the citizens come out from everywhere to complain and to demand he fix things. Grampy is in his element....
Mister and Mistletoe
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decorate. Bluto disguises himself as Santa and horns in on Olive....
Tops in the Big Top
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach....
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Character: Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue of one and all. Huey is a hero basking in his new-found popularity....
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her, and is preparing to join the army (where Bluto apparently is). Popeye stops her at the door, and insists on showing her sequences from two earlier two-reelers to prove his strength, but she's unimpressed. Fortunately, this was all a dream; he awakens in the blood bank, and dashes over to see Olive, who reaffirms her love....
The Friendly Ghost
Character: Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him....
I Don't Scare
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th....
Snow-White
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest....
Time on My Hands
Character: Betty Boop
In this surrealist entry, a fisherman deals with rebellious worms; a diver flirts with a Betty Boop-like mermaid who becomes Ethel Merman, singing the title song in live-action with a Bouncing Ball....
Be Human
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson....
The Kids in the Shoe
Character: Woman in the shoe
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. They won't eat their porridge, won't brush their teeth or comb their hair. As soon as their mother's in bed, they launch a wild party, playing musical instruments and doing a swinging rendition of Smiley Burnette's classic "Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Round Here." They then have a massive pillow fight until the old woman wakes up....
Silly Scandals
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist....
Rudy Vallee Melodies
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop, trying to keep a party lively, is aided by Rudy Vallee, who comes to live-action life from a sheet music cover and sings several songs with the Bouncing Ball....
Romantic Melodies
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Bimbo leads an awful German street band to serenade Betty Boop, but she prefers Arthur Tracy, 'Street Singer of the Air,' who in live- action sings several old-fashioned songs with a Bouncing Ball....
Mother Goose Land
Character: Betty Boop
Betty, while reading a book of Mother Goose stories, wishes she could visit such a wonderful place. Betty's wish is granted when Mother Goose appears, and gives her a tour of Mother Goose Land. Betty has a wonderful time until Little Miss Muffet's spider chases her, with lecherous ends in mind. All of the characters come to Betty's rescue. Betty wakes up in bed with all the fairy tale characters surrounding her....
Betty Boop's Museum
Character: Betty Boop
Koko is recruiting customers for a 50 cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko's only passenger. Betty gets locked inside by accident. The skeletons from the displays come to life and chase Betty, until she is finally rescued by Bimbo....
A Majority of One
Character: Essie Rubin
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness....
Bimbo's Initiation
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?...
Flip Flap
Character: Flip-Flap (voice)
Little Flip-Flap, a seal, is unhappy in the confines of the swimming tank in a big-city zoo. He breaks out and heads for the North Pole, where he meets a pretty girl-seal. She is captured by seal-hunters and sent to the zoo. Flip-Flap decides to return to the zoo and is happy when he is reunited with his sweetheart....
A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Casper the Friendly Ghost, sad that he can make no friends since everyone he meets is afraid of him, hatches an abandoned egg and becomes the emerging little duck's best friend and protector....
Assault and Flattery
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without provocation. Popeye then tells his side....
A Haul in One
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, t...
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50....
The Paneless Window Washer
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on....
Floor Flusher
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks....
You're Not Built That Way
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways....
Pudgy Picks a Fight
Character:
Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it......
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Character: Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s....
The Old Man of the Mountain
Character: Betty Boop (singing voice)
Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty....
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit....
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Character: Betty Boop
On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer....
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Character: Betty Boop
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons....
Chess-Nuts
Character: Betty Boop
An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and football. Koko appears....
A Job for a Gob
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede....
Penny Antics
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories....
Clown on the Farm
Character: Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
Baby Huey, the man-sized duckling, wants to play circus with the regular-size ducks, and they trick him into a barrel which almost goes over a cliff. It doesn't but it puts him into the hands of a hungry fox, who tries all manner of tricks to make Baby Huey palatable. They all fail and Baby Huey winds up as the circus ringmaster, putting the defeated fox through all kinds of tricks....
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Character: Mae Questel
Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes....
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain....
Popeye the Sailor
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop....
Starting from Hatch
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcited. Egg To Be Named Huey." A fox steals the giant egg and escapes with it. When he uses a hammer to crack the egg, Baby Huey is hatched. The fox tries to cook the king-size duckling. Huey mistakes the fox for his mommy and thinks that he's just trying to give him a bath. He chases the fox, thinking that the fox is his mother and trying to escape him. In tears, his mother shows up with a milk bottl...
Huey's Ducky Daddy
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
Hubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes all kinds of trouble and ends up catching a whale....
Scout Fellow
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be too big and stupid to join. When a wolf shows up all the other ducks run away but Huey mistakes him for the scout master, and asks for his help. The wolf gives him several tasks to perform, all designed with Huey ending up on the wolf's dinner table, but dumb Huey turns the situations and the wolf is rendered harmless. The scouts make Huey an honorary member, and the battered wolf is used as a patr...
Git Along Lil' Duckie
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him. A fox comes along and the ducklings flee and leave Huey to fight the enemy. The fox uses an exploding-cigar, a shotgun and dynamite against him but Huey is too tough and the fox winds up being the pursued....
One Quack Mind
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
Dumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a baby sitter. Hue also turns out to be one tough duck when he discovers his new baby sitter likes to play rough. So does Huey, who proceeds to beat the stuffing out of the fox....
Private Eye Popeye
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it....
Popeye's Service Station
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl....
To Boo or Not to Boo
Character: Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People"....
The Deep Boo Sea
Character: Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play. He meets up with Casper, and the two build a raft together and sail out to to sea to search for pirate treasure... and find it....
Ghost of the Town
Character: Baby / Kids (uncredited)
In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people....
Frightday the 13th
Character: Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
There's good boos tonight: Frightday the 13th. All the ghosts plan on going out to scare someone... except for Casper the Friendly Ghost, who goes out and makes friends with Lucky the black cat....
I Yam Love Sick
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns illness. The doctors are at a loss for a cure....
Is My Palm Read
Character: Betty Boop
For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball....
For Better or Worser
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained....
A Clean Shaven Man
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor....
Brotherly Love
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good deeds: helping two workmen raise a safe, straightening a wrecked car, and helping two boys sneak into a baseball game. But when he tries to break up a fight, it's more than he can handle alone. Olive and her followers come along and try to help, but it's too much for them, too. Of course, once Popeye has his spinach......
Bridge Ahoy!
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to sabotage this plan - until spinach time, of course....
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
Character: Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy....
Choose Your 'Weppins'
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye....
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him....
The Seapreme Court
Character: Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water....
Let's Get Movin'
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up....
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Character: Betty Boop
Due to the great depression, property prices start falling. The planet Earth goes up for sale. Mars and Venus make bids, but Saturn, characterised as an old Jew, makes a lower but winning bid. Then just to see what happens, he removes the earth's magnet, and gravity disappears....
Crazy-Town
Character: Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Bimbo take a wild streetcar ride to Crazy Town, where birds swim, fish fly, and everthing else reverses normal behavior....
Pest Pupil
Character: Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
1957 Baby Huey is a big duck enrolled in kindergarten. Despite being big and clumsy, he attempts to fit in, causing havoc and getting expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is also tortured by Baby Huey's good intentioned efforts. The tutor winds up in the ocean but Huey saves his life from sharks and gets his diploma as a reward....
Jumping with Toy
Character: Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a duck dinner out of Baby Huey....
The Two-Alarm Fire
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive's huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each other than the fire. When Bluto goes to the roof to rescue Olive, the fire strands him there. Popeye eats his spinach and rescues them, but it's too late for the house....
Stopping the Show
Character: Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
At the theatre, a 'Paramouse Noose Reel' and a Bimbo and Koko cartoon are followed by Betty Boop's stage performance; she sings and does imitations of Helen Kane, Fanny Brice and Maurice Chevalier....
Never Kick a Woman
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him....
Bimbo's Express
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop (with dog's ears) is moving; Bimbo comes with his moving van and is smitten with her. Songs: "Moving Day," "Hello Beautiful."...
Betty Boop, M.D.
Character: Betty Boop
Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell a weird concoction in their medicine show....
Little Swee'pea
Character: Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals....
Hold the Wire
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house....
Betty Boop's Big Boss
Character: Betty Boop
Betty takes a secretarial job where the boss sexually harasses her… but not without some encouragement from Betty....
Betty Boop for President
Character: Betty Boop
Betty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre....
The Spinach Roadster
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt....
I'm in the Army Now
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them....
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik. A sheik, looking a lot like Bluto, happens to overhear this and sets up a kissing booth. He carries her away to his luxurious tent. Popeye finally finishes up and notices Olive is gone; he chases after her, but his camel suffers a blowout. Meanwhile, the sheik has been wooing Olive. Popeye arrives, and after briefly sharing the hookah with...
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day....
Silly Hillbilly
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on....
Baby Wants a Battle
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants....
Betty Boop's Penthouse
Character:
While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster....
Organ Grinder's Swing
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion....
More Pep
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the real world with rapid results....
The Dance Contest
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in....
We Aim to Please
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two customers are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay you Tuesday" schtick) and Bluto, who orders 6 sandwiches and refuses to pay for them. This leads, of course, to a fight, which Popeye needs his spinach to win....
Beware of Barnacle Bill
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course)....
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive Oyl can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene....
Betty Boop and the Little King
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty encounters The Little King when, bored by the opera, he sneaks out to join in with her rodeo routine....
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow....
Zelig
Character: Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others....
Swab the Duck
Character: Ducklings
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft, he sends them flying into the hungry fox's frying pan. Huey accidentally frees them when he jumps onto the fox in his enthusiasm to join them. The fox decides he'd rather pursue the gigantic Huey than the tiny ducklings, and when he overhears Huey wishing he could play pirate, the fox dresses as a pirate aboard a convenient nearby replica pirate ship....
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive....
Popeye's Mirthday
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways....
Taxi-Turvy
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular....
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin')....
Hector's Hectic Life
Character: Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
Hector is a dog with an easy life and the run of the house when the lady of the house gives him a warning...one more mess and you're out. Hector would be okay if not for the fact that three little puppies have been left on their doorstep. Hector has a hectic time keeping them in line and cleaning up their messes without alerting the lady....
Toreadorable
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him....
Operation Ice-Tickle
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes....
Minnie the Moocher
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song....
Betty Boop's Trial
Character: Betty Boop
A traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial....
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength....
King of the Mardi Gras
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath....
Adventures of Popeye
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures....
The Spinach Overture
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show Popeye up. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach....
The Foxy Hunter
Character: Betty Boop
Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop's care to go hunting with a pop-gun....
Service with a Smile
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop is desk clerk at the Hi-De-Ho-Tel ("Food Served with Every Meal") where the guests have many legitimate complaints. Fortunately, Grampy's inventions fix everything....
My Artistical Temperature
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto....
Betty Boop's Little Pal
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the Pup makes a mess of Betty Boop's picnic, is sent home, and runs afoul of the dog catcher....
The Twisker Pitcher
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on....
Betty Boop's Prize Show
Character: Betty Boop
In a melodrama at the Slumbertown Theatre, Freddie is the sheriff and Betty is a school-marm desired by outlaw "Phillip the Fiend."...
Mutiny Ain't Nice
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is leaving on his sailing ship, much to Olive's chagrin. She ends up accidentally stowing away in a trunk. Popeye discovers her, but she can't stay, because the crew will think she's a jinx. She tries to hide, but this only scares the crew more, because they think the ship's haunted. When she is revealed, the crew comes after her to throw her off, and then turns on captain Popeye....
Hospitaliky
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting....
Nearlyweds
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over....
Spooky Swabs
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted....
Hill-billing and Cooing
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day....
Teacher's Pest
Character: Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
This Noveltoon (Paramount production number P9-5) finds young-and-little Junior Owl on his way to school, and trying hard to live up to the reputation of his elders for being wise. But, despite his best efforts, Mr. Wolf knows a few wise tricks of his own, and Junior lands in the wolf's pot of boiling water. But Mama Owl saves him from being the main course of Mr. Wolf's dinner, and Junior lends a hand himself....
Pudgy the Watchman
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop hires a feline professional "Mouse Eradicator" to take over from Pudgy the Pup who makes friends with mice....
Stop That Noise
Character: Betty Boop
A sleepless Betty can't take the noise of the city any more, and heads out into the country for some peace and quiet. She soon discovers that the country has its own problems....
The New Deal Show
Character: Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop emcees a show of pet-aid gadgets. Object: a "new deal for pets." Some ideas copied from Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933)....
Shiver Me Timbers!
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways....
Can You Take It
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, "Can you take it?", is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto puts Popeye through the tests, and while he fares better than most, he still ends up in the hospital ward, until he eats his spinach and goes after the members....
The Betty Boop Limited
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
On a special train, Betty's show troupe rehearses: Betty sings, Bimbo juggles, and Koko does a soft-shoe. The train itself also does tricks....
Ancient Fistory
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach....
Riding the Rails
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop goes to work on the subway (Trample 'Em R.R. Co.); Pudgy the Pup follows her and gets more ride than he bargained for....
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves....
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks by Sindbad....
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Character: Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics....
Dutch Treat
Character: Hans (voice) (uncredited)
Casper, the always friendly and friend-seeking ghost, is in Holland where little Hans is a willing playmate as he does his chores....
Wayward
Character: Showgirl (uncredited)
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham....
I Never Changes My Altitude
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane....
Let's Celebrake
Character: Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy....
Betty Boop and Grampy
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and some friends go to Grampy's house for a party....
Learn Polikeness
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners....
I Heard
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
The miners at Never Mine go to Betty Boop's Tavern (a jazz-jumpin' place) for lunch. Back in the mine, Bimbo delves into weird realms....
Keep in Style
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop puts on a musical show of new inventions and styles; her creation of "ankle skirts" sweeps the nation....
Fowl Play
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it....
I Eats My Spinach
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive Oyl visit a rodeo....
A Dream Walking
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero....
Axe Me Another
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest....
The Football Toucher Downer
Character: Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach....
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
After drawing Betty Boop, Max Fleischer (live-action) leaves the studio; Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, releasing enough laughing gas to convulse the 'real world.'...
Be Up to Date
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store comes to Hillbillyville; the mountain folks find old uses for the new gadgets....
Zula Hula
Character: Betty Boop
Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude....
Protek the Weakerist
Character: Olive Oyl
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight....
When My Ship Comes In
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop wins the Irish Sweepstakes, and fantasizes about what she'll do with the money....
Crazytown
Character: Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy....
Just One More Chance
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop entertains at a gambling den with Bimbo in attendance; Arthur Jarrett (film debut) sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball....
Fright to the Finish
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks....
All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger....
Shoein' Hosses
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop....
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Character: Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues....
There's Something About a Soldier
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop recruits for the Army by offering inductees a kiss. The recruits march off to war with a force of giant mosquitoes!...
Bride and Gloom
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is marrying Olive tomorrow; he's ecstatic. She has a dream of the future, including twin sons who prove to be a real handful. When Popeye comes by the next morning, he gets a frosty reception....
She-Sick Sailors
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach....
Out to Punch
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye....
Parlez Vous Woo
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character....
Just a Gigolo
Character: Betty Boop
Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a romantic tom-cat gigolo....
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way....
Minding the Baby
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's minding his baby brother, but neighbor Betty Boop (with dog's ears) wants him to come over and play....
Hot Resort
Character: Mrs. Labowitz
Young guys on the make get a job at a resort hotel in the Caribbean....
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Character: Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas....
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
In a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand....
New Shoes
Character: Girl's Shoes (voice)
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes....
Hooky Spooky
Character: Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
On their way to Night School, Casper the Friendly Ghost and his pal, Spooky Ghost, pass a zoo, and Spooky has a good time scaring the animals until Casper, posing as the ghost of the scared denizens of the zoo, scares Spooky....
Puppet Love
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him....
Penguin for Your Thoughts
Character: Baby Penguin
After startling a stork who drops his package, Casper the Friendly Ghost delivers a baby penguin to its parents at the South Pole....
Boo Scout
Character: Billy (voice)
Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout....
Kitty from Kansas City
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball....
Baby Be Good
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale....
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth....
The House Builder-Upper
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build her a new house....
A Date to Skate
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control....
Santa's Surprise
Character: Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
Seven children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve and decide to surprise him with some help around the house while he sleeps....
Gift of Gag
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house....
House Tricks?
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of w...
Move
Character: Mrs. Katz
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one....
Mother Goose Melodies
Character: Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
A book of nursery rhymes plays for Old King Cole....
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Buzzy Boop at the Concert is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop's young Tomboy cousin Buzzy Boop....
Bunny Mooning
Character: Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene)....
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
Character: Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
Betty tries a regime of exercise, but her weight loss gets out of hand. She sings "Keep Your Girlish Figure"....
Line of Screammage
Character: Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
Even dead kids can be a bad influence. Take what happens to Billy for example. Casper the "friendly" ghost takes the slightly awkward little boy under his wing, and before long the two of them are cheating in a local football game....
Dancing on the Moon
Character: Various (voice, uncredited)
Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery....
Birds in the Spring
Character: Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home....
Popeye for President
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won't vote, and the election outcome be decided, until her chores are done. Popeye and Bluto compete to complete them....
The Crystal Brawl
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball....
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue....
Fit to Be Toyed
Character: J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia"....
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill....
Pre-Hysterical Man
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up in the dinosaur, but the caveman (longing for a woman) saves her. Olive falls for him, but Popeye, noticing Olive's absence, comes down and saves her from the caveman. They fight it out; the caveman stuffs Popeye into a not-quite-empty spinach can and feeds him to the dinosaur, but of course, Popeye breaks out and wins the day....
Robin Hood-Winked
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to collect taxes and falls for Olive....
Symphony in Spinach
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job....
Lumberjack and Jill
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl....
Hot Air Aces
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightni...
A Balmy Swami
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans. First, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks. Next, he hypnotizes Olive, but while she's walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the boys race to save...
Tar with a Star
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners....
Strong to the Finich
Character: Children (voice) (uncredited)
Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the values of spinach: he feeds some to a tree, which grows huge and sprouts a variety of fruit; he feeds a hen, which lays a dozen eggs, and he eats some himself to resist a prizefighter passing by....
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act....
Lost and Foundry
Character: Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble....
Somewhere in Dreamland
Character: Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive home. Their poor mother sets before them the only food she can: Stale bread. The children get ready for bed; In their dreams, visions of ice cream and donuts, candies and cakes fill their sleeping minds-- Will they awake to the same sorry situation?...
Abusement Park
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park....
The Royal Four-Flusher
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks....
The Island Fling
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft....
Peep in the Deep
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it....
Popeye and the Pirates
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover....
Wotta Knight
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails....
Safari So Good
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens across a Tarzan-like man (Bluto), and she and he are immediately smitten with one another. Popeye catches wind of this and isn't about to stand for the jungle hunk muscling in on his girl. Let the fighting and one-upmanship begin....
The Fistic Mystic
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye pounces on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming; Popeye blows a hornpipe on his pipe. Bluto next turns Popeye into a parrot. Bluto then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes a...
Rodeo Romeo
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad. Dynamite, the bronco that's never been ridden busts out and Popeye, seeing his chance, downs some spinach and manages an impressive series of tricks, culminating in firing a bullet at Bluto and lassoing it just in time. Bluto's had enough, and he substitutes loco weed for Popeye's spinach, then challenges him to throw the bull. Popeye's fried brain sees...
Service with a Guile
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store. Meanwhile, the boys stop by on a 24-hour leave, and start to be "helpful" - which of course means that the tire, then the entire car, are in serious trouble. Not that Popeye doesn't do some amazing things to save the car; he carries it, atop a hoist, to the top of a very tall building under construction, then outruns it as it falls, and catches it, unscathed; the car i...
Rocket to Mars
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides)....
Klondike Casanova
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive....
A Little Soap and Water
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop tries to give Pudgy the Pup a bath, with slapstick results....
Popeye's Premiere
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from....
Grampy's Indoor Outing
Character: Betty Boop / Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are prevented by a thunderstorm from going to the carnival. Inventive Grampy devises a substitute....
Making Friends
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals....
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye....
Happy You and Merry Me
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
A stray kitten wanders into Betty Boop's house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the pup....
Spinach Greetings
Character: Olive Oyl
The evil Sea Hag interrupts Popeye's family Christmas....
The Fulla Bluff Man
Character: Cavewoman (voice)
A persistent door-to-door salesman tries to sell his wares in a gated community that doesn't allow peddlers. He makes a killing selling clubs to a bunch of battling street brawlers....
Matinee Idol Popeye
Character: Olive Oyl (Voice)
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production....
Weight for Me
Character: Olive Oyl
After six months at sea, Popeye and Brutus see that Olive has become overweight after eating too much out of feeling lonely. Popeye wants to help her get thinner while Brutus says she is fine like that. The sailor's attempts to make her exercise are thwarted by his rival each time, ending with both Olive and Popeye trapped in the exercise machines the latter had bought. But eating spinach turns the tables and allows Popeye to trim down his beloved's pounds by using his forearms as a reducing mac...
Little Nobody
Character: Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup meets the female pup next door, whose snobbish owner calls him a "little nobody". A pep talk from Betty Boop turns Pudgy into a hero....
The Hot Air Salesman
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets....
Hits and Missiles
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese....
Jeep Tale
Character: Swee'pea
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale about a mama jeep and her four children- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day, they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterwar...
Plumbers Pipe Dream
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye's bungling attempts to fix Olive's faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City....
A Language All My Own
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop takes her stage act on the road, and plays in Japan to great acclaim....
Judge for a Day
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge....
We Did It
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the pup take the blame as usual?...
Seeing Double
Character: Olive Oyl(voice)
Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, two thugs build a Popeye robot to do their bidding....
Sir Irving and Jeames
Character: Worthington (uncredited)
About a rich dog and his poor servant....
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Character: Buzz (voice) (uncredited)
The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town....