Mae Questel
Acting
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
Acting320
movieThe Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons
2025
Olive Oyl (voiice)
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
2024
Mother / Olive Oyl (voice) (archive sound)
movieNoveltoons: Original Classics
2012
Little Audrey
movieCasper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963
2011
Additional Voices
movieBetty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
movieNational Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989
Aunt Bethany
movieWho Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Betty Boop (voice)
movieHot Resort
1985
Mrs. Labowitz
movieZelig
1983
Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
movieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieMove
1970
Mrs. Katz
movieFunny Girl
1968
Mrs. Strakosh
movieIt's Only Money
1962
Cecilia Albright
movieA Majority of One
1961
Essie Rubin
movieOperation Ice-Tickle
1961
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieWeight for Me
1961
Olive Oyl
movieSpinach Greetings
1960
Olive Oyl
movieSeeing Double
1960
Olive Oyl(voice)
movieBarbecue for Two
1960
Olive Oyl
moviePlumbers Pipe Dream
1960
Olive Oyl
movieHits and Missiles
1960
Olive Oyl
tvPopeye the Sailor
1960
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieJeep Tale
1960
Swee'pea
moviePopeye and the Giant
1960
Sea Hag (voice)
moviePopeye's Service Station
1960
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieMatinee Idol Popeye
1960
Olive Oyl (Voice)
Talking Horse Sense
1959
Ethel (voice)
movieFit to Be Toyed
1959
J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Owly to Bed
1959
Hootie the Baby Owl (voice) (uncredited)
movieStork Raving Mad
1958
Baby / Mother
tvNaked City
1958
Mrs. Annette Faber
movieJumping with Toy
1957
Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
movieIce Scream
1957
Billy (voice)
movieSpooky Swabs
1957
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHooky Spooky
1957
Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Crystal Brawl
1957
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Cat In The Act
1957
Murgatroyd
movieNearlyweds
1957
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePest Pupil
1957
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
movieA Haul in One
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieI Don't Scare
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSir Irving and Jeames
1956
Worthington (uncredited)
movieParlez Vous Woo
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieLine of Screammage
1956
Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
movieAssault and Flattery
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePenguin for Your Thoughts
1956
Baby Penguin
movieOut to Punch
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSwab the Duck
1956
Ducklings
movieDutch Treat
1956
Hans (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye for President
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHill-billing and Cooing
1956
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Kitty Cornered
1955
Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
movieA Job for a Gob
1955
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieMousieur Herman
1955
Herman's Cousin
movieMister and Mistletoe
1955
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Poop Goes the Weasel
1955
Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
movieGift of Gag
1955
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBeaus Will Be Beaus
1955
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieA Bicep Built for Two
1955
Cute Kitty
movieGit Along Lil' Duckie
1955
Baby Huey's Mom
moviePenny Antics
1955
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieCookin' with Gags
1955
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePrivate Eye Popeye
1954
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieFright to the Finish
1954
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBride and Gloom
1954
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieTaxi-Turvy
1954
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye's 20th Anniversary
1954
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieCrazytown
1954
Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
movieThe Seapreme Court
1954
Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
movieFloor Flusher
1954
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHuey's Ducky Daddy
1953
Baby Huey's Mom
movieFiremen's Brawl
1953
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBaby Wants a Battle
1953
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieToreadorable
1953
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye's Mirthday
1953
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieChild Sockology
1953
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieStarting from Hatch
1953
Baby Huey's Mom
movieFrightday the 13th
1953
Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
movieAncient Fistory
1953
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBig Bad Sindbad
1952
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePig-a-Boo
1952
Junior Pig / Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
movieClown on the Farm
1952
Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
Law and Audrey
1952
Little Audrey (voice)
movieSwimmer Take All
1952
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieGhost of the Town
1952
Baby / Kids (uncredited)
movieLunch with a Punch
1952
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Deep Boo Sea
1952
Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
movieScout Fellow
1951
Baby Huey's Mom
movieLet's Stalk Spinach
1951
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Party Smarty
1951
Baby Huey's Mom
movieBoo Scout
1951
Billy (voice)
movieTo Boo or Not to Boo
1951
Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
movieAlpine for You
1951
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieMiners Forty Niners
1951
Gold Digger / Clementine
Land of Lost Watches
1951
Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)
movieThrill of Fair
1951
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieTweet Music
1951
Little Eagle / Ostrich
movieVacation with Play
1951
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieOne Quack Mind
1951
Baby Huey's Mom
movieThe Farmer and the Belle
1950
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieCasper's Spree Under the Sea
1950
Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)
movieQuick on the Vigor
1950
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye Makes a Movie
1950
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieJitterbug Jive
1950
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBeach Peach
1950
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieTeacher's Pest
1950
Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
movieGym Jam
1950
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieQuack-a Doodle-Doo
1950
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
movieSnow Foolin'
1949
Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)
movieBarking Dogs Don't Fite
1949
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSilly Hillbilly
1949
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieOur Funny Finny Friends
1949
Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)
movieTar with a Star
1949
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieA Balmy Swami
1949
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHot Air Aces
1949
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieLumberjack and Jill
1949
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieA-Haunting We Will Go
1949
Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye's Premiere
1949
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieSymphony in Spinach
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHector's Hectic Life
1948
Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
movieRobin Hood-Winked
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSnow Place Like Home
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSpinach vs Hamburgers
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieA Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePre-Hysterical Man
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieWigwam Whoopee
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieFlip Flap
1948
Flip-Flap (voice)
movieOlive Oyl for President
1948
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieAll's Fair at the Fair
1947
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSanta's Surprise
1947
Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
movieSafari So Good
1947
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieWotta Knight
1947
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieThe Royal Four-Flusher
1947
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye and the Pirates
1947
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieI'll Be Skiing Ya
1947
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieAbusement Park
1947
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Island Fling
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieThe Fistic Mystic
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieRodeo Romeo
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieRocket to Mars
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
moviePeep in the Deep
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieKlondike Casanova
1946
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieService with a Guile
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieHouse Tricks?
1946
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieThe Friendly Ghost
1945
Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
movieMess Production
1945
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieFor Better or Nurse
1945
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieShape Ahoy
1945
Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
movieTops in the Big Top
1945
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gabriel Churchkitten
1944
Peter (voice)
movieShe-Sick Sailors
1944
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePitchin' Woo at the Zoo
1944
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePuppet Love
1944
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSpinach Packin' Popeye
1944
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieMr. Bug Goes to Town
1941
Buzz (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Fulla Bluff Man
1940
Cavewoman (voice)
movieA Date to Skate
1938
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieMutiny Ain't Nice
1938
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBuzzy Boop at the Concert
1938
Betty Boop (voice)
moviePudgy the Watchman
1938
Betty Boop
movieI Yam Love Sick
1938
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBig Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
1938
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe House Builder-Upper
1938
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Tears of an Onion
1938
Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
movieBe Up to Date
1938
Betty Boop
movieLearn Polikeness
1938
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieRiding the Rails
1938
Betty Boop
movieLet's Celebrake
1938
Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
movieZula Hula
1937
Betty Boop
movieFowl Play
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Foxy Hunter
1937
Betty Boop
movieProtek the Weakerist
1937
Olive Oyl
movieThe New Deal Show
1937
Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Football Toucher Downer
1937
Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
movieService with a Smile
1937
Betty Boop
movieI Likes Babies and Infinks
1937
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Candid Candidate
1937
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieI Never Changes My Altitude
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieLost and Foundry
1937
Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Impractical Joker
1937
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieMorning, Noon and Night Club
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Twisker Pitcher
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHospitaliky
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieMy Artistical Temperature
1937
Olive Oyl
movieThe Hot Air Salesman
1937
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieOrgan Grinder's Swing
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBunny Mooning
1937
Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Paneless Window Washer
1937
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHouse Cleaning Blues
1937
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieI'm in the Army Now
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieMaking Friends
1936
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieChristmas Comes But Once a Year
1936
Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
moviePopeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Spinach Roadster
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBe Human
1936
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieHold the Wire
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieGrampy's Indoor Outing
1936
Betty Boop / Junior (voice)
movieLittle Swee'pea
1936
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
movieTraining Pigeons
1936
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
movieNew Shoes
1936
Girl's Shoes (voice)
movieNever Kick a Woman
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHappy You and Merry Me
1936
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
movieLet's Get Movin'
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieYou're Not Built That Way
1936
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieI Wanna Be a Life Guard
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieMore Pep
1936
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Cobweb Hotel
1936
Flies (voice)
movieBridge Ahoy!
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieWe Did It
1936
Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
movieI-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop and Little Jimmy
1936
Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
movieBrotherly Love
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieA Clean Shaven Man
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop and the Little King
1936
Betty Boop (voice)
movieSomewhere in Dreamland
1936
Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
movieVim, Vigor and Vitaliky
1936
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieLittle Nobody
1935
Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Spinach Overture
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieAdventures of Popeye
1935
Olive Oyl (voice)
movieMaking Stars
1935
Betty Boop (voice)
movieKing of the Mardi Gras
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieJudge for a Day
1935
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieYou Gotta Be a Football Hero
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop and Grampy
1935
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieA Language All My Own
1935
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieDancing on the Moon
1935
Various (voice, uncredited)
movieFor Better or Worser
1935
Olive Oyl
movieA Little Soap and Water
1935
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieChoose Your 'Weppins'
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieNo! No! A Thousand Times No!!
1935
Betty Boop (voice)
movieThe Kids in the Shoe
1935
Woman in the shoe
movieThe Hyp-Nut-Tist
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieSwat the Fly
1935
Betty Boop (voice)
moviePleased to Meet Cha!
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieStop That Noise
1935
Betty Boop
movieThe Lost Chick
1935
Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
movieBe Kind to 'Aminals'
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieTaking the Blame
1935
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieBeware of Barnacle Bill
1935
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBaby Be Good
1935
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieWe Aim to Please
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieWhen My Ship Comes In
1934
Betty Boop (voice)
movieThe Dance Contest
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieKeep in Style
1934
Betty Boop
movieThe Two-Alarm Fire
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop's Prize Show
1934
Betty Boop
movieA Dream Walking
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop's Little Pal
1934
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
movieAxe Me Another
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieThere's Something About a Soldier
1934
Betty Boop (voice)
movieShiver Me Timbers!
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieStrong to the Finich
1934
Children (voice) (uncredited)
movieCan You Take It
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop's Trial
1934
Betty Boop
movieShoein' Hosses
1934
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieBetty Boop's Rise to Fame
1934
Betty Boop
movieThe Man on the Flying Trapeze
1934
Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieHa! Ha! Ha!
1934
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieI Eats My Spinach
1933
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
movieI Heard
1933
Betty Boop (voice)
movieThe Old Man of the Mountain
1933
Betty Boop (singing voice)
movieSnow-White
1933
Betty Boop (voice)
moviePopeye the Sailor
1933
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieMother Goose Land
1933
Betty Boop
movieBetty Boop's Big Boss
1933
Betty Boop
movieBetty Boop's Birthday Party
1933
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
movieBirds in the Spring
1933
Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
movieIs My Palm Read
1933
Betty Boop (voice)
movieBetty Boop's Crazy Inventions
1933
Betty Boop (voice)
movieTime on My Hands
1932
Betty Boop
movieBetty Boop's Museum
1932
Betty Boop
movieBetty Boop for President
1932
Betty Boop
movieRomantic Melodies
1932
Betty Boop (voice)
movieBetty Boop's Ups and Downs
1932
Betty Boop
movieBetty Boop's Bamboo Isle
1932
Betty Boop
movieJust a Gigolo
1932
Betty Boop
movieBetty Boop, M.D.
1932
Betty Boop
movieStopping the Show
1932
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
movieRudy Vallee Melodies
1932
Betty Boop (voice)
movieThe Betty Boop Limited
1932
Betty Boop (voice)
movieAdmission Free
1932
Betty Boop (voice)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1932
Betty Boop (voice)
movieChess-Nuts
1932
Betty Boop
movieJust One More Chance
1932
Betty Boop (voice)
movieCrazy-Town
1932
Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
movieOne Hour with You
1932
Office Worker (uncredited)
movieMinnie the Moocher
1932
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieWayward
1932
Showgirl (uncredited)
movieKitty from Kansas City
1931
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieMinding the Baby
1931
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieBimbo's Express
1931
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieBimbo's Initiation
1931
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
movieSilly Scandals
1931
Betty Boop (voice)
movieMother Goose Melodies
1931
Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)