#BETTY BOOP VOICE MOVIE#

Social' in 1948, 'A Majority of One' in 1959 and 'Enter Laughing' in 1963. She also filled in from time to time as the voice of another cartoon character, Casper, the friendly ghost.Īmong her Broadway plays were 'Dr. Questel also created the voices of Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea for the 'Popeye' cartoons, starting in 1933 and continuing through hundreds of episodes until 1967.

#BETTY BOOP VOICE MOVIE#

Questel returned to the character when Betty appeared in the 1988 movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' The Betty Boop character was retired in 1939, but Ms. Mae Questel is the voice of Betty Boop in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Chika Sakamoto is the Japanese voice. Her recording of 'On the Good Ship Lollipop' - in Betty Boop's voice - sold more than 2 million copies. Questel was in more than 150 cartoon shorts. The sound was actually modeled on the voice of another actress, Helen Kane, who created a sensation on Broadway in 1928 with a 'boop-boop-a-doop' rendition of the hit song 'I Wanna Be Loved by You.'ĭuring her eight years as the voice of Betty Boop, Ms. Questel's performances, he signed her to take over the voice of Betty Boop. She did imitations of popular performers such as Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich and Rudy Vallee.Īfter animator Max Fleischer heard one of Ms. Questel, a Bronx, N.Y., native, was discovered at 17 when she was signed to perform on the vaudeville circuit. During the 1960s and 1970s, the squeaky-voiced actress appeared in paper towel television commercials as the character Aunt Bluebell. In a sequence of animation mixed with live-action, he uses. He manages to conjure Maxs pen into drawing Betty Boop. 42.56, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter. A live-action black janitor, played by Oscar Polk, best known for his portrayal as the servant 'Pork' in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, studies hypnotism from a book while cleaning Max Fleischers desk at the Fleischer studio. She also appeared in the film version of 'Funny Girl' in 1968 and in 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' in 1989. Add this copy of The Voice of Betty Boop, Mae Questel to cart. Questel played Woody Allen's intrusive, omnipresent mother in the 'Oedipus Wrecks' segment of the film 'New York Stories.' She disappears at a magic show, only to appear as a giant looming figure in the clouds over Manhattan - still badgering her son and discussing his personal life with the public. Well worth seeing.Mae Questel, 89, the stage, screen and vaudeville actress who was the childlike voice of cartoon characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, died at her New York home Jan. She and Popeye danced on stage together in the episode, which is. In Popeye the Sailor with Betty Boop, Betty Boop appears in a grass skirt with only a lei covering her upper half.

Plus, like all Betty Boop shorts, the animation is amazingly good. Mae Questel is the original voice of Betty Boop, but she also voiced Olive Oyl's character in Popeye the Sailor, which first debuted as a theatrical cartoon in 1933. As I said, this IS a very dark cartoon! Despite being so dark (or perhaps because of), the cartoon is entertaining, has a wonderfully weird style and did make me laugh. Eventually, Koko and Bimbo escape and the three are chased about the ship-only to outsmart the pirates and send them all to their deaths. After locking up the guys below, the crew seems rather intent on raping Betty (perhaps I am reading this into the film). Soon a ship arrives to rescue them but their excitement is short-lived-it's a pirate ship. Eventually it sinks and the only survivors you see are Bimbo, KoKo and Betty Boop on a raft. A storm is knocking it about and passengers are hopping off right and left. However, it also is very dark for a cartoon if you think about what is happening. 'S.O.S.' is one of the better Betty Boop cartoons-mostly because there's no singing and the film is a bit insane.

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