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