Mae Questel
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
Naked City
Mrs. Annette Faber
1958
Series
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Series
Popeye the Sailor
Olive Oyl (voice)
1960
Film
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Betty Boop (voice)
1988
Film
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Aunt Bethany
1989
Film
Funny Girl
Mrs. Strakosh
1968
Film
Zelig
Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
1983
Film
New York Stories
Mother
1989
Cartoon Alley
2004
Film
One Hour with You
Office Worker (uncredited)
1932
Film
Hot Resort
Mrs. Labowitz
1985
Film
House Cleaning Blues
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Move
Mrs. Katz
1970
Film
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Film
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Self
1988
Film
It's Only Money
Cecilia Albright
1962
Film
Betty Boop for President
Betty Boop
1932
Film
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Mae Questel
1988
Film
Private Eye Popeye
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Film
You're Not Built That Way
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
I'm in the Army Now
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
There's Something About a Soldier
Betty Boop (voice)
1934
Film
Stork Raving Mad
Baby / Mother
1958
Film
Abusement Park
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
Out to Punch
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
The Island Fling
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
Film
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
A Dream Walking
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Gabriel Churchkitten
Peter (voice)
1944
Film
The Hot Air Salesman
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Fit to Be Toyed
J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
1959
Film
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Buzz (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Film
House Tricks?
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
Film
Snow-White
Betty Boop (voice)
1933
Film
Frightday the 13th
Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Organ Grinder's Swing
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
The Impractical Joker
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Shiver Me Timbers!
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Popeye the Sailor
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1933
Film
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Ancient Fistory
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
1995
Film
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Film
A Majority of One
Essie Rubin
1961
Film
Jumping with Toy
Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
1957
Film
Assault and Flattery
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
The Cobweb Hotel
Flies (voice)
1936
Film
The Friendly Ghost
Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Film
Jitterbug Jive
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Talking Horse Sense
Ethel (voice)
1959
Film
Floor Flusher
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Film
Snow Place Like Home
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Hill-billing and Cooing
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
Mother Goose Land
Betty Boop
1933
Film
Training Pigeons
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Little Nobody
Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Adventures of Popeye
Olive Oyl (voice)
1935
Film
Betty Boop, M.D.
Betty Boop
1932
Film
A Clean Shaven Man
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
We Did It
Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Penguin for Your Thoughts
Baby Penguin
1956
Film
Wotta Knight
Olive Oyl (voice)
1947
Film
Birds in the Spring
Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
1933
Film
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
All's Fair at the Fair
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
Popeye's Premiere
Olive Oyl (voice)
1949
Film
Somewhere in Dreamland
Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
1936
Film
The Crystal Brawl
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1957
Film
Hold the Wire
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Crazytown
Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
1954
Film
Popeye for President
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
Mother / Olive Oyl (voice) (archive sound)
2024
Film
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons
Olive Oyl (voiice)
2025
Film
Santa's Surprise
Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
She-Sick Sailors
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Old Man of the Mountain
Betty Boop (singing voice)
1933
Film
Casper's Spree Under the Sea
Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)
1950
Film
Stop That Noise
Betty Boop
1935
Film
Symphony in Spinach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Git Along Lil' Duckie
Baby Huey's Mom
1955
Film
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Betty Boop
1934
Film
Wigwam Whoopee
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Pudgy the Watchman
Betty Boop
1938
Film
Starting from Hatch
Baby Huey's Mom
1953
Film
The Football Toucher Downer
Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Casper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963
Additional Voices
2011
Film
Mother Goose Melodies
Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Film
Let's Get Movin'
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Jeep Tale
Swee'pea
1960
Film
Quick on the Vigor
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Film
Nearlyweds
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1957
Film
The Lost Chick
Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Service with a Guile
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
Film
Fright to the Finish
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Film
Scout Fellow
Baby Huey's Mom
1951
Film
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Bridge Ahoy!
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Popeye and the Giant
Sea Hag (voice)
1960
Film
Stopping the Show
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
1932
Film
Taxi-Turvy
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
The Tears of an Onion
Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Hooky Spooky
Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
1957
Film
Lumberjack and Jill
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
Let's Stalk Spinach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Film
Robin Hood-Winked
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Bimbo's Initiation
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Film
Zula Hula
Betty Boop
1937
Film
Choose Your 'Weppins'
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
A Date to Skate
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
The Betty Boop Limited
Betty Boop (voice)
1932
Film
For Better or Nurse
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Film
Puppet Love
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Film
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Betty Boop (voice)
1933
Film
Dancing on the Moon
Various (voice, uncredited)
1935
Film
Ghost of the Town
Baby / Kids (uncredited)
1952
Film
Rocket to Mars
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
Film
Romantic Melodies
Betty Boop (voice)
1932
Cat In The Act
Murgatroyd
1957
Film
Klondike Casanova
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Film
Mousieur Herman
Herman's Cousin
1955
Film
Swab the Duck
Ducklings
1956
Film
Judge for a Day
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
New Shoes
Girl's Shoes (voice)
1936
Film
Riding the Rails
Betty Boop
1938
Film
Kitty from Kansas City
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Film
Clown on the Farm
Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
1952
Film
The Paneless Window Washer
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Tweet Music
Little Eagle / Ostrich
1951
Party Smarty
Baby Huey's Mom
1951
Film
The Spinach Roadster
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Cookin' with Gags
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Film
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Popeye and the Pirates
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
I Yam Love Sick
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
King of the Mardi Gras
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Barbecue for Two
Olive Oyl
1960
Film
A Bicep Built for Two
Cute Kitty
1955
Film
Parlez Vous Woo
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
Silly Hillbilly
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
Pest Pupil
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
1957
Film
Popeye's Service Station
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1960
Film
Swat the Fly
Betty Boop (voice)
1935
The Big Fun Carnival
Betty Boop
1957
Film
Mutiny Ain't Nice
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
The Spinach Overture
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Bride and Gloom
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Film
The Twisker Pitcher
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Alpine for You
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Film
Pig-a-Boo
Junior Pig / Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Film
Brotherly Love
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Minnie the Moocher
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1932
Film
Betty Boop's Prize Show
Betty Boop
1934
Film
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
Betty Boop (voice)
1938
Film
Tops in the Big Top
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Film
A Haul in One
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
Line of Screammage
Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
Bunny Mooning
Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Time on My Hands
Betty Boop
1932
Film
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2
Betty Boop
2013
Film
Lost and Foundry
Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Hansel and Gretel
Voice
1958
Film
Popeye's Mirthday
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Beware of Barnacle Bill
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Fowl Play
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
1933
Film
I Heard
Betty Boop (voice)
1933
Film
Chess-Nuts
Betty Boop
1932
Film
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Axe Me Another
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
For Better or Worser
Olive Oyl
1935
Film
Crazy-Town
Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
1932
Film
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Firemen's Brawl
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Wayward
Showgirl (uncredited)
1932
Film
Swimmer Take All
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Film
Taking the Blame
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Can You Take It
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
We Aim to Please
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Baby Wants a Battle
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Hector's Hectic Life
Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
1948
Film
Spooky Swabs
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1957
Film
Learn Polikeness
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Betty Boop
1932
Film
Plumbers Pipe Dream
Olive Oyl
1960
Film
The Fistic Mystic
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
Film
Mess Production
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Film
Little Swee'pea
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Ice Scream
Billy (voice)
1957
Film
Never Kick a Woman
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Land of Lost Watches
Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)
1951
Film
Gym Jam
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Film
Grampy's Indoor Outing
Betty Boop / Junior (voice)
1936
Film
Hot Air Aces
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
Mister and Mistletoe
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Film
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Betty Boop (voice)
1935
Film
A Balmy Swami
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
Silly Scandals
Betty Boop (voice)
1931
Film
Safari So Good
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
A Little Soap and Water
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Poop Goes the Weasel
Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Film
Minding the Baby
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Film
Betty Boop and Grampy
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Counter Attack
Mouse
1960
Film
Be Human
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Service with a Smile
Betty Boop
1937
Film
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Olive Oyl (voice)
1944
Film
Let's Celebrake
Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Be Up to Date
Betty Boop
1938
The Musical Doctor
Nurse Clef
1932
Film
Betty Boop's Museum
Betty Boop
1932
Film
The Farmer and the Belle
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Film
Our Funny Finny Friends
Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)
1949
Film
Pre-Hysterical Man
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
To Boo or Not to Boo
Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Film
Beach Peach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Film
Flip Flap
Flip-Flap (voice)
1948
Film
Seeing Double
Olive Oyl(voice)
1960
Film
Betty Boop's Penthouse
1933
Film
Hospitaliky
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
I Never Changes My Altitude
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
The Kids in the Shoe
Woman in the shoe
1935
Film
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Film
Dutch Treat
Hans (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
The Deep Boo Sea
Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
1952
Law and Audrey
Little Audrey (voice)
1952
Film
The Seapreme Court
Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Film
Shape Ahoy
Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Film
Operation Ice-Tickle
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1961
Film
The Foxy Hunter
Betty Boop
1937
Film
Matinee Idol Popeye
Olive Oyl (Voice)
1960
Film
Miners Forty Niners
Gold Digger / Clementine
1951
Film
My Artistical Temperature
Olive Oyl
1937
Film
Rodeo Romeo
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
Film
A Language All My Own
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Pudgy Picks a Fight
1937
Film
Bimbo's Express
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Film
Popeye Makes a Movie
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Film
Olive Oyl for President
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
The New Deal Show
Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Betty Boop and the Little King
Betty Boop (voice)
1936
Film
Keep in Style
Betty Boop
1934
Film
Strong to the Finich
Children (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1936
From Mad to Worse
Cute Kitty
1957
Film
Big Bad Sindbad
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Kitty Cornered
Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Film
Tar with a Star
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3
Betty Boop
2014
Film
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Betty Boop's Big Boss
Betty Boop
1933
Film
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Vacation with Play
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Film
Lunch with a Punch
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Film
Huey's Ducky Daddy
Baby Huey's Mom
1953
Film
Weight for Me
Olive Oyl
1961
Film
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 4
Betty Boop
2014
Film
The Dance Contest
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Is My Palm Read
Betty Boop (voice)
1933
Film
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Thrill of Fair
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Film
Protek the Weakerist
Olive Oyl
1937
Film
A-Haunting We Will Go
Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
The Royal Four-Flusher
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Film
Spinach Greetings
Olive Oyl
1960
Film
A Job for a Gob
Olive Oyl (voice)
1955
Film
Shoein' Hosses
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Land of the Lost Jewels
Isabel
1950
Film
Hits and Missiles
Olive Oyl
1960
Film
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Betty Boop
1932
Film
Penny Antics
Olive Oyl (voice)
1955
Film
Noveltoons: Original Classics
Little Audrey
2012
Film
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Trouble Date
Cuddles
1960
Film
Child Sockology
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Snow Foolin'
Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Film
Just a Gigolo
Betty Boop
1932
Film
Making Friends
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Baby Be Good
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
Beaus Will Be Beaus
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Film
Felineous Assault
Kitnip
1959
Film
Sir Irving and Jeames
Worthington (uncredited)
1956
Film
Betty Boop's Little Pal
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
I Eats My Spinach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1933
Film
One Quack Mind
Baby Huey's Mom
1951
Film
I Don't Scare
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Planet Mouseola
Mouse
1960
Film
Admission Free
Betty Boop (voice)
1932
Film
Making Stars
Betty Boop (voice)
1935
Film
Teacher's Pest
Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
1950
Film
Toreadorable
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Film
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Film
The Candid Candidate
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Film
Gift of Gag
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Film
Betty Boop's Trial
Betty Boop
1934
Film
The House Builder-Upper
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Rudy Vallee Melodies
Betty Boop (voice)
1932
Film
Just One More Chance
Betty Boop (voice)
1932
Film
When My Ship Comes In
Betty Boop (voice)
1934
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Betty Boop (voice)
1932
Film
The Fulla Bluff Man
Cavewoman (voice)
1940
Film
Boo Scout
Billy (voice)
1951
Film
The Two-Alarm Fire
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Film
Happy You and Merry Me
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
More Pep
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Film
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1
Betty Boop
2013
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Betty Boop
1932
Fun At The Fair
Cow
1952
Owly to Bed
Hootie the Baby Owl (voice) (uncredited)
1959
Film
Peep in the Deep
Olive Oyl (voice)
1946
A Battery of Songs
1930