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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
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(1988)
Betty Boop (voice)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
(1989)
Aunt Bethany
New York Stories
(1989)
Mother
Funny Girl
(1968)
Mrs. Strakosh
Zelig
(1983)
Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Full Filmography
Acting
A Battery of Songs
(1930)
Bimbo's Express
(1931)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Minding the Baby
(1931)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's Initiation
(1931)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Mother Goose Melodies
(1931)
Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
Silly Scandals
(1931)
Betty Boop (voice)
Kitty from Kansas City
(1931)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Rudy Vallee Melodies
(1932)
Betty Boop (voice)
Chess-Nuts
(1932)
Betty Boop
Just a Gigolo
(1932)
Betty Boop
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
(1932)
Betty Boop
Stopping the Show
(1932)
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Museum
(1932)
Betty Boop
The Musical Doctor
(1932)
Nurse Clef
One Hour with You
(1932)
Office Worker (uncredited)
Wayward
(1932)
Showgirl (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
(1932)
Betty Boop
Time on My Hands
(1932)
Betty Boop
Minnie the Moocher
(1932)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Just One More Chance
(1932)
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
(1932)
Betty Boop
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
(1932)
Betty Boop (voice)
Romantic Melodies
(1932)
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop, M.D.
(1932)
Betty Boop
The Betty Boop Limited
(1932)
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop for President
(1932)
Betty Boop
Crazy-Town
(1932)
Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
(1933)
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Big Boss
(1933)
Betty Boop
Mother Goose Land
(1933)
Betty Boop
Snow-White
(1933)
Betty Boop (voice)
Popeye the Sailor
(1933)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Birds in the Spring
(1933)
Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
The Old Man of the Mountain
(1933)
Betty Boop (singing voice)
Betty Boop's Penthouse
(1933)
I Heard
(1933)
Betty Boop (voice)
Is My Palm Read
(1933)
Betty Boop
I Eats My Spinach
(1933)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
(1933)
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Strong to the Finich
(1934)
Children (voice) (uncredited)
Keep in Style
(1934)
Betty Boop
Axe Me Another
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Shoein' Hosses
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
(1934)
Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Prize Show
(1934)
Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
(1934)
Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Trial
(1934)
Betty Boop
A Dream Walking
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Shiver Me Timbers!
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Two-Alarm Fire
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
There's Something About a Soldier
(1934)
Betty Boop (voice)
Can You Take It
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
When My Ship Comes In
(1934)
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Little Pal
(1934)
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
The Dance Contest
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
We Aim to Please
(1934)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Ha! Ha! Ha!
(1934)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Dancing on the Moon
(1935)
Various (voice, uncredited)
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beware of Barnacle Bill
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
King of the Mardi Gras
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Adventures of Popeye
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice)
The Spinach Overture
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pleased to Meet Cha!
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Swat the Fly
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice)
Choose Your 'Weppins'
(1935)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
For Better or Worser
(1935)
Olive Oyl
Betty Boop and Grampy
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
A Little Soap and Water
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Lost Chick
(1935)
Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice)
Judge for a Day
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Kids in the Shoe
(1935)
Woman in the shoe
A Language All My Own
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Taking the Blame
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Be Good
(1935)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Stop That Noise
(1935)
Betty Boop
More Pep
(1936)
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
I'm in the Army Now
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hold the Wire
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Never Kick a Woman
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Little Swee'pea
(1936)
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
The Spinach Roadster
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Get Movin'
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Clean Shaven Man
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Brotherly Love
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bridge Ahoy!
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
You're Not Built That Way
(1936)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Cobweb Hotel
(1936)
Flies (voice)
Making Friends
(1936)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Grampy's Indoor Outing
(1936)
Betty Boop / Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Somewhere in Dreamland
(1936)
Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
Little Nobody
(1936)
Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Training Pigeons
(1936)
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Be Human
(1936)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
(1936)
Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and the Little King
(1936)
Betty Boop (voice)
New Shoes
(1936)
Girl's Shoes (voice)
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
(1936)
Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
(1936)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Happy You and Merry Me
(1936)
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
We Did It
(1936)
Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
Protek the Weakerist
(1937)
Olive Oyl
Fowl Play
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Impractical Joker
(1937)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Football Toucher Downer
(1937)
Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
I Likes Babies and Infinks
(1937)
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Zula Hula
(1937)
Betty Boop
Lost and Foundry
(1937)
Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Hospitaliky
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The New Deal Show
(1937)
Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
The Twisker Pitcher
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
My Artistical Temperature
(1937)
Olive Oyl
I Never Changes My Altitude
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bunny Mooning
(1937)
Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
The Foxy Hunter
(1937)
Betty Boop
Organ Grinder's Swing
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Service with a Smile
(1937)
Betty Boop
The Hot Air Salesman
(1937)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Paneless Window Washer
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Candid Candidate
(1937)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
House Cleaning Blues
(1937)
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy Picks a Fight
(1937)
Morning, Noon and Night Club
(1937)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Celebrake
(1938)
Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
Learn Polikeness
(1938)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Be Up to Date
(1938)
Betty Boop
Pudgy the Watchman
(1938)
Betty Boop
Riding the Rails
(1938)
Betty Boop
Mutiny Ain't Nice
(1938)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I Yam Love Sick
(1938)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Tears of an Onion
(1938)
Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
The House Builder-Upper
(1938)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
(1938)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Date to Skate
(1938)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
(1938)
Betty Boop (voice)
The Fulla Bluff Man
(1940)
Cavewoman (voice)
Gabriel Churchkitten
(1944)
Peter (voice)
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
(1944)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach Packin' Popeye
(1944)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Puppet Love
(1944)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
She-Sick Sailors
(1944)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Friendly Ghost
(1945)
Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
Shape Ahoy
(1945)
Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Tops in the Big Top
(1945)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Mess Production
(1945)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
For Better or Nurse
(1945)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Island Fling
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Rodeo Romeo
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Service with a Guile
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Peep in the Deep
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
House Tricks?
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Rocket to Mars
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
The Fistic Mystic
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Klondike Casanova
(1946)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
All's Fair at the Fair
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I'll Be Skiing Ya
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Safari So Good
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and the Pirates
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Santa's Surprise
(1947)
Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
Abusement Park
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Royal Four-Flusher
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wotta Knight
(1947)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Pre-Hysterical Man
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Robin Hood-Winked
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Symphony in Spinach
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hector's Hectic Life
(1948)
Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
Spinach vs Hamburgers
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wigwam Whoopee
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Place Like Home
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Flip Flap
(1948)
Flip-Flap (voice)
Olive Oyl for President
(1948)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's Premiere
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Tar with a Star
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hot Air Aces
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Lumberjack and Jill
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Balmy Swami
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Silly Hillbilly
(1949)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A-Haunting We Will Go
(1949)
Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Teacher's Pest
(1950)
Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
Land of the Lost Jewels
(1950)
Isabel
Popeye Makes a Movie
(1950)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beach Peach
(1950)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Farmer and the Belle
(1950)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Jitterbug Jive
(1950)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
(1950)
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
Gym Jam
(1950)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Quick on the Vigor
(1950)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Stalk Spinach
(1951)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Boo Scout
(1951)
Billy (voice)
Thrill of Fair
(1951)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Vacation with Play
(1951)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Alpine for You
(1951)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Tweet Music
(1951)
Little Eagle / Ostrich
Land of Lost Watches
(1951)
Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch
To Boo or Not to Boo
(1951)
Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
One Quack Mind
(1951)
Baby Huey's Mom
Scout Fellow
(1951)
Baby Huey's Mom
Party Smarty
(1951)
Baby Huey's Mom
Miners Forty Niners
(1951)
Gold Digger / Clementine
The Deep Boo Sea
(1952)
Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
Clown on the Farm
(1952)
Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
Fun At The Fair
(1952)
Cow
Lunch with a Punch
(1952)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Big Bad Sindbad
(1952)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Swimmer Take All
(1952)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Ghost of the Town
(1952)
Baby / Kids (uncredited)
Ancient Fistory
(1953)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Frightday the 13th
(1953)
Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's Mirthday
(1953)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Huey's Ducky Daddy
(1953)
Baby Huey's Mom
Child Sockology
(1953)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Firemen's Brawl
(1953)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Wants a Battle
(1953)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Toreadorable
(1953)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Starting from Hatch
(1953)
Baby Huey's Mom
Bride and Gloom
(1954)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Fright to the Finish
(1954)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Floor Flusher
(1954)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Seapreme Court
(1954)
Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
Private Eye Popeye
(1954)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
(1954)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hep taxi
(1954)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gift of Gag
(1955)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Kitty Cornered
(1955)
Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
A Job for a Gob
(1955)
Olive Oyl (voice)
A Bicep Built for Two
(1955)
Cute Kitty
Penny Antics
(1955)
Olive Oyl (voice)
Mousieur Herman
(1955)
Herman's Cousin
Poop Goes the Weasel
(1955)
Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
Mister and Mistletoe
(1955)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Git Along Lil' Duckie
(1955)
Baby Huey's Mom
Cookin' with Gags
(1955)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beaus Will Be Beaus
(1955)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Line of Screammage
(1956)
Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye for President
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Penguin for Your Thoughts
(1956)
Baby Penguin
Parlez Vous Woo
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Out to Punch
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Assault and Flattery
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Haul in One
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Swab the Duck
(1956)
Ducklings
I Don't Scare
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hill-billing and Cooing
(1956)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Crystal Brawl
(1957)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hooky Spooky
(1957)
Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Jumping with Toy
(1957)
Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
Pest Pupil
(1957)
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
The Big Fun Carnival
(1957)
Betty Boop
Spooky Swabs
(1957)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Nearlyweds
(1957)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Ice Scream
(1957)
Billy (voice)
Cat In The Act
(1957)
Murgatroyd
From Mad to Worse
(1957)
Cute Kitty
Hansel and Gretel
(1958)
Voice
Stork Raving Mad
(1958)
Baby / Mother
Fit to Be Toyed
(1959)
J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Felineous Assault
(1959)
Kitnip
Talking Horse Sense
(1959)
Ethel (voice)
Matinee Idol Popeye
(1960)
Olive Oyl (Voice)
Barbecue for Two
(1960)
Olive Oyl
Popeye's Service Station
(1960)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and the Giant
(1960)
Sea Hag (voice)
Trouble Date
(1960)
Cuddles
Counter Attack
(1960)
Mouse
Plumbers Pipe Dream
(1960)
Olive Oyl
Jeep Tale
(1960)
Swee'pea
Spinach Greetings
(1960)
Olive Oyl
Hits and Missiles
(1960)
Olive Oyl
Planet Mouseola
(1960)
Mouse
Weight for Me
(1961)
Olive Oyl
A Majority of One
(1961)
Essie Rubin
Operation Ice-Tickle
(1961)
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
It's Only Money
(1962)
Cecilia Albright
Funny Girl
(1968)
Mrs. Strakosh
Move
(1970)
Mrs. Katz
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
(1983)
Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Zelig
(1983)
Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
Hot Resort
(1985)
Mrs. Labowitz
Horrible Horror
(1986)
Betty Boop in 'Hollywood on Parade No. A-8'
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
(1988)
Mae Questel
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
(1988)
Self
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(1988)
Betty Boop (voice)
New York Stories
(1989)
Mother
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
(1989)
Aunt Bethany
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
(1995)
Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
(2024)
Mother / Olive Oyl (voice)