Popeye's girlfriend found dead!
Sandra Doyle
Shortly after the discovery of Olive Oyl's death,
Popeye was seen speeding down the LA freeway
in the back of a white bronco, with old rival
Brutus at the wheel......
But Seriously.....ClairNews reports the death of actress Mae Questel,
voice of Olive and Betty Boop......
NEW YORK, Jan 8 (AFP) - US actress Mae Questel, who was the
voice behind cartoon sex-kitten Betty Boop and Popeye's stringy
girlfriend Olive Oyl, died Sunday at her home in New York.
She was 89.
Andrew Milner
>
> Shortly after the discovery of Olive Oyl's death,
> Popeye was seen speeding down the LA freeway
> in the back of a white bronco, with old rival
> Brutus at the wheel......
>
Craig Doolin
Mae Questel also played the mother to Woody Allen's character in his
"Oedipus Wrecks" segment of "New York Stories." She was funny even in
her mid 80s.
On 8 Jan 1998 22:23:48 GMT, sdo...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Sandra Doyle)
wrote:
>
> Shortly after the discovery of Olive Oyl's death,
> Popeye was seen speeding down the LA freeway
> in the back of a white bronco, with old rival
> Brutus at the wheel......
>
>
Alfie
Sandra Doyle wrote:
>
> Shortly after the discovery of Olive Oyl's death,
> Popeye was seen speeding down the LA freeway
> in the back of a white bronco, with old rival
> Brutus at the wheel......
>
Popeye
Brad Ferguson
What's this "Brutus" crap? "Brutus" was the name Famous Studios came up
with for Bluto when they started mass-producing crappy, limited-animation
Popeye cartoons for television in the early 1960s. Calling Bluto "Brutus"
is like calling Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Lew Alcindor" or GCarras "Jeffrey
Dahmer." It's just not _done_.
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Sandra Doyle
Brad Ferguson (n...@this.time) wrote:
: Dahmer." It's just not _done_.
picky, picky, picky.
mark
Brad Ferguson wrote:
>
> In article <34B649...@injersey.com>, Alfie <ara...@injersey.com> wrote:
>
> > Sandra Doyle wrote:
> > >
> > > Shortly after the discovery of Olive Oyl's death,
> > > Popeye was seen speeding down the LA freeway
> > > in the back of a white bronco, with old rival
> > > Brutus at the wheel......
> > >
> > >ACK ACK ACK ACK....I thinks we outsmarked dah cops again!! I hopesk
> dey don't find me pipe at the scene, Brutus!!! ACK ACK ACK ACK WOOOWW!!!
> >
> > Popeye
>
> What's this "Brutus" crap? "Brutus" was the name Famous Studios came up
> with for Bluto when they started mass-producing crappy, limited-animation
> Popeye cartoons for television in the early 1960s. Calling Bluto "Brutus"
> is like calling Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Lew Alcindor"
Wow, did Lew Alcindor change his name ? :)
>or GCarras "Jeffrey
> Dahmer." It's just not _done_.
>
Gojira95
Actually, the character was ORIGINALLY called Brutus in the Popeye Comic
Strips. In later years, after the BLUTO name was created, Pete Seegar
(Popeye's creator) came up with that they were BROTHERS.
heyw...@sirius.com
> What's this "Brutus" crap? "Brutus" was the name Famous Studios came up
> with for Bluto when they started mass-producing crappy, limited-animation
> Popeye cartoons for television in the early 1960s. Calling Bluto "Brutus"
> Dahmer".
Or Lazlo Toth, for that matter!
F.O.O.M.
heyw...@sirius.com
Gojira95 wrote:
Didn't Woody Guthrie create Popeye?
Brad Ferguson
In article <34B7163C...@NOSPAMix.netcom.com>,
goji...@nospam.ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Actually, the character was ORIGINALLY called Brutus in the Popeye Comic
> Strips. In later years, after the BLUTO name was created, Pete Seegar
> (Popeye's creator) came up with that they were BROTHERS.
Hey, this "Pete Seegar" stuff isn't more stream-of-consciousness British
misinformation, is it? Pete Seeger, born in 1919, is a famous folk singer.
A writer/artist named E.C. (Elzie Crisler) Segar created Popeye in 1929
(and died nine years later at the age of 44, just to keep this on topic).
Seegar was born the same year Segar created Thimble Theater, the strip in
which Popeye would first appear ten years later. Cool!
I didn't know that about Brutus/Bluto, and was always under the impression
that the cartoonists had changed it to avoid confusion with Disney's rights
concerning Pluto.
Jack Bagley
heyw...@sirius.com wrote:
>> What's this "Brutus" crap? "Brutus" was the name Famous Studios came up
>> with for Bluto when they started mass-producing crappy, limited-animation
>> Popeye cartoons for television in the early 1960s. Calling Bluto "Brutus"
>> is like calling Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Lew Alcindor" or GCarras "Jeffrey
>> Dahmer".
I read in the book issued for Popeye's 50th anniversary (written by
then-artist Bud Sagendorf) that the name was changed in 1960 in a
dispute over ownership and who created it.
Apparently Famous Studios wasn't *sure* where Bluto had come from, and
rather than risk potential liability with Mr. Segar's estate, they
changed the name to Brutus.
(The book's a memory now...and my own memory may be faulty on this...)
-----=====Jack=====-----
J & D Taylor
heyw...@sirius.com wrote:
>
> Gojira95 wrote:
>
> > Actually, the character was ORIGINALLY called Brutus in the Popeye Comic
> > Strips. In later years, after the BLUTO name was created, Pete Seegar
> > (Popeye's creator) came up with that they were BROTHERS.
>
The creator of Popeye was Elzie Segar. He was from Chester, Illinois,
and his home has a dedication marker. Chester has two Popeye statues as
well. The Popeye fan club and museum are also in Chester, Illinois.
J.T.
msj...@sprynet.com
> sdo...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Sandra Doyle) writes:
>
> Shortly after the discovery of Olive Oyl's death,
> Popeye was seen speeding down the LA freeway
> in the back of a white bronco, with old rival
> Brutus at the wheel......
>
>
> voice of Olive and Betty Boop......
>
> NEW YORK, Jan 8 (AFP) - US actress Mae Questel, who was the
> voice behind cartoon sex-kitten Betty Boop and Popeye's stringy
> girlfriend Olive Oyl, died Sunday at her home in New York.
> She was 89.
Was she the only voice of Betty Boop?
(This message written with assistance of a Betty Boop mousepad)
Mike
M. Collins
I was under the impression that Tom Sims and Bela (Bill) Szaboly were the
creators of Popeye??
Or perhaps they continued after Segar's death.
In any event, I recall that Popeye was just a secondary charcter in the
series. The main characters were Castor Oyl and his sister Olive.
Then Popeye came into his own, and Castor Oyl sort of faded away iunto
oblivion.
mc
Ken
msj...@sprynet.com wrote:
>
> > sdo...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Sandra Doyle) writes:
> > NEW YORK, Jan 8 (AFP) - US actress Mae Questel, who was the
> > voice behind cartoon sex-kitten Betty Boop and Popeye's stringy
> > girlfriend Olive Oyl, died Sunday at her home in New York.
> > She was 89.
>
> Was she the only voice of Betty Boop?
> (This message written with assistance of a Betty Boop mousepad)
>
> Mike
Mae Questel was the best known of the actresses to voice dear Betty.
But according to "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series" by Jeff
Lenburg (Arlington House Publishers, 1981), Ann Rothschild, Margie
Heinz, Kate Wright and Bonnie Poe also had the honor of voicing Betty in
the original series which ran from 1930 to 1939.
Ken
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Brad Ferguson
In article <34BEA3...@NOSPAMinwave.com>, ken...@NOSPAMinwave.com wrote:
> msj...@sprynet.com wrote:
> >
> > > sdo...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Sandra Doyle) writes:
>
> > > NEW YORK, Jan 8 (AFP) - US actress Mae Questel, who was the
> > > voice behind cartoon sex-kitten Betty Boop and Popeye's stringy
> > > girlfriend Olive Oyl, died Sunday at her home in New York.
> > > She was 89.
> >
> > Was she the only voice of Betty Boop?
> > (This message written with assistance of a Betty Boop mousepad)
> >
> > Mike
>
> Mae Questel was the best known of the actresses to voice dear Betty.
> But according to "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series" by Jeff
> Lenburg (Arlington House Publishers, 1981), Ann Rothschild, Margie
> Heinz, Kate Wright and Bonnie Poe also had the honor of voicing Betty in
> the original series which ran from 1930 to 1939.
>
> Ken
Is Mae the Betty Boop who appears with Bela Lugosi in that circa-1931 clip
in which Bela, as Dracula, menacingly wraps his cape around her and tells
her "you have booped your last boop"? (Only a select few will know what
I'm talking about.)
BILL CAPPELLO
In <not-ya02408000R...@snews.zippo.com> n...@this.time
Yes, that is Mae Questel in that film clip. I have seen it, too.
Brad Ferguson
In article <69qlkj$1...@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>, bill...@ix.netcom.com(BILL
CAPPELLO) wrote:
> Yes, that is Mae Questel in that film clip. I have seen it, too.
Thanks, Bill.