Mae Questel
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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.
Known for
Credits
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
as Betty Boop (voice)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
as Aunt Bethany
Floor Flusher (1954)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Crazytown (1954)
as Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
Funny Girl (1968)
as Mrs. Strakosh
New York Stories (1989)
as Mother
Boo Scout (1951)
as Billy (voice)
Puppet Love (1944)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
House Tricks? (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Abusement Park (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wigwam Whoopee (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Taxi-Turvy (1954)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Jeep Tale (1960)
as Swee'pea
Party Smarty (1951)
as Baby Huey's Mom
Little Nobody (1935)
as Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Nearlyweds (1957)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wayward (1932)
as Showgirl (uncredited)
It's Only Money (1962)
as Cecilia Albright
Gabriel Churchkitten (1944)
as Peter (voice)
Silly Scandals (1931)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Scout Fellow (1951)
as Baby Huey's Mom
Spooky Swabs (1957)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beach Peach (1950)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor (1933)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Museum (1932)
as Betty Boop
Talking Horse Sense (1959)
as Ethel (voice)
Learn Polikeness (1938)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Private Eye Popeye (1954)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Stork Raving Mad (1958)
as Baby / Mother
Be Human (1936)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Organ Grinder's Swing (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Training Pigeons (1936)
as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Planet Mouseola (1960)
as Mouse
Snow-White (1933)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Birthday Party (1933)
as Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Mousieur Herman (1955)
as Herman's Cousin
Brotherly Love (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Hot Resort (1985)
as Mrs. Labowitz
Bunny Mooning (1937)
as Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Zelig (1983)
as Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
Fowl Play (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
as Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
Matinee Idol Popeye (1960)
as Olive Oyl (Voice)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)
as Buzz (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2 (2013)
as Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Little Pal (1934)
as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Operation Ice-Tickle (1961)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gift of Gag (1955)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Celebrake (1938)
as Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
Chess-Nuts (1932)
as Betty Boop
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3 (2014)
as Betty Boop
Minnie the Moocher (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Big Fun Carnival (1957)
as Betty Boop
Out to Punch (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bridge Ahoy! (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 (2013)
as Betty Boop
Making Friends (1936)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Hospitaliky (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Safari So Good (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Kitty from Kansas City (1931)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Paneless Window Washer (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and the Giant (1960)
as Sea Hag (voice)
House Cleaning Blues (1937)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
I Likes Babies and Infinks (1937)
as Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Stalk Spinach (1951)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Island Fling (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice)
More Pep (1936)
as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Quick on the Vigor (1950)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I Don't Scare (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Get Movin' (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
as Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Clean Shaven Man (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Bicep Built for Two (1955)
as Cute Kitty
The Candid Candidate (1937)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
One Hour with You (1932)
as Office Worker (uncredited)
Lunch with a Punch (1952)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Just a Gigolo (1932)
as Betty Boop
Alpine for You (1951)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I'm in the Army Now (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
You're Not Built That Way (1936)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Never Kick a Woman (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Birds in the Spring (1933)
as Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz (1988)
as Mae Questel
Plumbers Pipe Dream (1960)
as Olive Oyl
Popeye's Service Station (1960)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Spinach Overture (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Big Bad Sindbad (1952)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Morning, Noon and Night Club (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Mother Goose Melodies (1931)
as Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
A Language All My Own (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
as Betty Boop
Shiver Me Timbers! (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Impractical Joker (1937)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach vs Hamburgers (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Barbecue for Two (1960)
as Olive Oyl
Noveltoons: Original Classics (2012)
as Little Audrey
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Romantic Melodies (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Mother Goose Land (1933)
as Betty Boop
Baby Be Good (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's Express (1931)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Time on My Hands (1932)
as Betty Boop
Jumping with Toy (1957)
as Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
Penny Antics (1955)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Snow Foolin' (1949)
as Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)
I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hill-billing and Cooing (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (1932)
as Betty Boop
Popeye's Mirthday (1953)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo (1950)
as Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
Little Swee'pea (1936)
as Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Place Like Home (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Kitty Cornered (1955)
as Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
A Dream Walking (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Penthouse (1933)
Actor
Move (1970)
as Mrs. Katz
Choose Your 'Weppins' (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Stopping the Show (1932)
as Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
The Hot Air Salesman (1937)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
One Quack Mind (1951)
as Baby Huey's Mom
You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Dancing on the Moon (1935)
as Various (voice, uncredited)
We Aim to Please (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 4 (2014)
as Betty Boop
I Heard (1933)
as Betty Boop (voice)
We Did It (1936)
as Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
A Majority of One (1961)
as Essie Rubin
Ice Scream (1957)
as Billy (voice)
The Football Toucher Downer (1937)
as Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Grampy's Indoor Outing (1936)
as Betty Boop / Junior (voice)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936)
as Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
Huey's Ducky Daddy (1953)
as Baby Huey's Mom
Hot Air Aces (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Dance Contest (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
as Betty Boop (singing voice)
The Spinach Roadster (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Trial (1934)
as Betty Boop
Weight for Me (1961)
as Olive Oyl
Taking the Blame (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Kids in the Shoe (1935)
as Woman in the shoe
The Cobweb Hotel (1936)
as Flies (voice)
The Musical Doctor (1932)
as Nurse Clef
Line of Screammage (1956)
as Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
Little Boo-Peep (1953)
Actor
Admission Free (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Mister and Mistletoe (1955)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Parlez Vous Woo (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Crazy-Town (1932)
as Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
The Betty Boop Limited (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Swab the Duck (1956)
as Ducklings
There's Something About a Soldier (1934)
as Betty Boop (voice)
I Yam Love Sick (1938)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
New Shoes (1936)
as Girl's Shoes (voice)
Zula Hula (1937)
as Betty Boop
Clown on the Farm (1952)
as Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
Santa's Surprise (1947)
as Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
For Better or Worser (1935)
as Olive Oyl
Keep in Style (1934)
as Betty Boop
Swat the Fly (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Big Boss (1933)
as Betty Boop
My Artistical Temperature (1937)
as Olive Oyl
The Tears of an Onion (1938)
as Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
A Battery of Songs (1930)
Actor
Pest Pupil (1957)
as Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons (2025)
as Olive Oyl (voiice)
Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Adventures of Popeye (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Can You Take It (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Friendly Ghost (1945)
as Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1949)
as Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1932)
as Betty Boop
I Eats My Spinach (1933)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Just One More Chance (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice)
A Haul in One (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beware of Barnacle Bill (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hooky Spooky (1957)
as Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Silly Hillbilly (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)
as Betty Boop
Mess Production (1945)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wotta Knight (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Pudgy the Watchman (1938)
as Betty Boop
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town (1988)
as Self
Service with a Smile (1937)
as Betty Boop
Protek the Weakerist (1937)
as Olive Oyl
Felineous Assault (1959)
as Kitnip
Olive Oyl for President (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Fit to Be Toyed (1959)
as J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
When My Ship Comes In (1934)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Be Up to Date (1938)
as Betty Boop
Happy You and Merry Me (1936)
as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Hector's Hectic Life (1948)
as Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo (1944)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Be Kind to 'Aminals' (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Rudy Vallee Melodies (1932)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Land of Lost Watches (1951)
as Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)
The Lost Chick (1935)
as Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
For Better or Nurse (1945)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Seeing Double (1960)
as Olive Oyl(voice)
Stop That Noise (1935)
as Betty Boop
Peep in the Deep (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Spinach Greetings (1960)
as Olive Oyl
Shoein' Hosses (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer (2024)
as Mother / Olive Oyl (voice) (archive sound)
Judge for a Day (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Swimmer Take All (1952)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Symphony in Spinach (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
King of the Mardi Gras (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Is My Palm Read (1933)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Cookin' with Gags (1955)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Date to Skate (1938)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Royal Four-Flusher (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Child Sockology (1953)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye for President (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pleased to Meet Cha! (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Job for a Gob (1955)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Hold the Wire (1936)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Foxy Hunter (1937)
as Betty Boop
Riding the Rails (1938)
as Betty Boop
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936)
as Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
Ancient Fistory (1953)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Assault and Flattery (1956)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Somewhere in Dreamland (1936)
as Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
The House Builder-Upper (1938)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop for President (1932)
as Betty Boop
Jitterbug Jive (1950)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Casper's Spree Under the Sea (1950)
as Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)
Rocket to Mars (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Lumberjack and Jill (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Fulla Bluff Man (1940)
as Cavewoman (voice)
Popeye Makes a Movie (1950)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Owly to Bed (1959)
as Hootie the Baby Owl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and the Little King (1936)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Making Stars (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice)
Cat In The Act (1957)
as Murgatroyd
Pudgy Picks a Fight (1937)
Actor
Rodeo Romeo (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Penguin for Your Thoughts (1956)
as Baby Penguin
Mutiny Ain't Nice (1938)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934)
as Betty Boop
Barking Dogs Don't Fite (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hansel and Gretel (1958)
as Voice
The Two-Alarm Fire (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Casper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963 (2011)
as Additional Voices
Sir Irving and Jeames (1956)
as Worthington (uncredited)
Miners Forty Niners (1951)
as Gold Digger / Clementine
Klondike Casanova (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Crystal Brawl (1957)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and the Pirates (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Fun At The Fair (1952)
as Cow
Popeye's Premiere (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
From Mad to Worse (1957)
as Cute Kitty
Strong to the Finich (1934)
as Children (voice) (uncredited)
Poop Goes the Weasel (1955)
as Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
Lost and Foundry (1937)
as Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Dutch Treat (1956)
as Hans (voice) (uncredited)
All's Fair at the Fair (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Minding the Baby (1931)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1938)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Our Funny Finny Friends (1949)
as Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)
A Little Soap and Water (1935)
as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The New Deal Show (1937)
as Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
To Boo or Not to Boo (1951)
as Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
The Hyp-Nut-Tist (1935)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Fistic Mystic (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Hits and Missiles (1960)
as Olive Oyl
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs (1932)
as Betty Boop
Tops in the Big Top (1945)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach Packin' Popeye (1944)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
The Seapreme Court (1954)
as Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
Frightday the 13th (1953)
as Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
Bride and Gloom (1954)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Balmy Swami (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pre-Hysterical Man (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Wants a Battle (1953)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Deep Boo Sea (1952)
as Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
Law and Audrey (1952)
as Little Audrey (voice)
Axe Me Another (1934)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Shape Ahoy (1945)
as Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Pig-a-Boo (1952)
as Junior Pig / Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Land of the Lost Jewels (1950)
as Isabel
She-Sick Sailors (1944)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Tar with a Star (1949)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Service with a Guile (1946)
as Olive Oyl (voice)
Robin Hood-Winked (1948)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Thrill of Fair (1951)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Trouble Date (1960)
as Cuddles
Ghost of the Town (1952)
as Baby / Kids (uncredited)
Fright to the Finish (1954)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beaus Will Be Beaus (1955)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Teacher's Pest (1950)
as Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
I'll Be Skiing Ya (1947)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Starting from Hatch (1953)
as Baby Huey's Mom
Firemen's Brawl (1953)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Twisker Pitcher (1937)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Vacation with Play (1951)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Git Along Lil' Duckie (1955)
as Baby Huey's Mom
The Farmer and the Belle (1950)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gym Jam (1950)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Tweet Music (1951)
as Little Eagle / Ostrich
Toreadorable (1953)
as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Flip Flap (1948)
as Flip-Flap (voice)
Counter Attack (1960)
as Mouse