Biography
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.
Acted in 298
2020s
- 2025
The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons
Olive Oyl (voiice)
2010s
- 2014
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 4
Betty Boop
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3
Betty Boop
- 2013
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2
Betty Boop
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1
Betty Boop
- 2012
Noveltoons: Original Classics
Little Audrey
- 2011
Casper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963
Additional Voices
1980s
- 1989
- 1988
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Mae Questel
- 1985
Hot Resort
Mrs. Labowitz
- 1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970s
- 1970
Move
Mrs. Katz
1960s
- 1968
- 1962
It's Only Money
Cecilia Albright
- 1961
A Majority of One
Essie Rubin
Operation Ice-Tickle
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Weight for Me
Olive Oyl
- 1960
Spinach Greetings
Olive Oyl
Seeing Double
Olive Oyl(voice)
Barbecue for Two
Olive Oyl
Super Duper Market
Olive Oyl
Plumbers Pipe Dream
Olive Oyl
Hits and Missiles
Olive Oyl
Jeep Tale
Swee'pea
Popeye and the Giant
Sea Hag (voice)
Popeye's Service Station
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Matinee Idol Popeye
Olive Oyl (Voice)
1950s
- 1959
Fit to Be Toyed
J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Felineous Assault
Kitnip
- 1958
Stork Raving Mad
Baby / Mother
- 1957
Jumping with Toy
Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
Ice Scream
Billy (voice)
Spooky Swabs
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hooky Spooky
Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
The Crystal Brawl
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Nearlyweds
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pest Pupil
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
- 1956
A Haul in One
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I Don't Scare
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Sir Irving and Jeames
Worthington (uncredited)
Parlez Vous Woo
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Line of Screammage
Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
Assault and Flattery
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Penguin for Your Thoughts
Baby Penguin
Out to Punch
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Swab the Duck
Ducklings
Dutch Treat
Hans (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye for President
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hill-billing and Cooing
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1955
A Job for a Gob
Olive Oyl (voice)
Mousieur Herman
Herman's Cousin
Mister and Mistletoe
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gift of Gag
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beaus Will Be Beaus
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Bicep Built for Two
Cute Kitty
Git Along Lil' Duckie
Baby Huey's Mom
Penny Antics
Olive Oyl (voice)
Cookin' with Gags
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1954
Private Eye Popeye
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Fright to the Finish
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bride and Gloom
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Taxi-Turvy
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Crazytown
Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
The Seapreme Court
Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
- 1953
Huey's Ducky Daddy
Baby Huey's Mom
Little Boo-Peep
Movie
Firemen's Brawl
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Wants a Battle
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Toreadorable
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's Mirthday
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Child Sockology
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Starting from Hatch
Baby Huey's Mom
Of Mice and Magic
Louise the Mouse (voice)
Frightday the 13th
Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
Ancient Fistory
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1952
Big Bad Sindbad
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pig-a-Boo
Junior Pig / Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Clown on the Farm
Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
Swimmer Take All
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Ghost of the Town
Baby / Kids (uncredited)
Lunch with a Punch
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Deep Boo Sea
Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
- 1951
Scout Fellow
Baby Huey's Mom
Let's Stalk Spinach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Boo Scout
Billy (voice)
To Boo or Not to Boo
Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
Alpine for You
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Miners Forty Niners
Gold Digger / Clementine
Thrill of Fair
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Tweet Music
Little Eagle / Ostrich
Vacation with Play
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
One Quack Mind
Baby Huey's Mom
- 1950
The Farmer and the Belle
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Casper's Spree Under the Sea
Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)
Quick on the Vigor
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye Makes a Movie
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Jitterbug Jive
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Beach Peach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Teacher's Pest
Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
Gym Jam
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
1940s
- 1949
Snow Foolin'
Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Silly Hillbilly
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Our Funny Finny Friends
Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)
Tar with a Star
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Balmy Swami
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hot Air Aces
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Lumberjack and Jill
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A-Haunting We Will Go
Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's Premiere
Olive Oyl (voice)
- 1948
Symphony in Spinach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Hector's Hectic Life
Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
Robin Hood-Winked
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Place Like Home
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pre-Hysterical Man
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wigwam Whoopee
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Flip Flap
Flip-Flap (voice)
Olive Oyl for President
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1947
All's Fair at the Fair
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Santa's Surprise
Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
Safari So Good
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Bout with a Trout
Teacher
Wotta Knight
Olive Oyl (voice)
The Royal Four-Flusher
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and the Pirates
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Abusement Park
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946
The Island Fling
Olive Oyl (voice)
The Fistic Mystic
Olive Oyl (voice)
Rodeo Romeo
Olive Oyl (voice)
Rocket to Mars
Olive Oyl (voice)
Peep in the Deep
Olive Oyl (voice)
Klondike Casanova
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Service with a Guile
Olive Oyl (voice)
- 1945
The Friendly Ghost
Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
Mess Production
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
For Better or Nurse
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Shape Ahoy
Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Tops in the Big Top
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1944
She-Sick Sailors
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Olive Oyl (voice)
- 1941
- 1940
The Fulla Bluff Man
Cavewoman (voice)
1930s
- 1938
A Date to Skate
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Mutiny Ain't Nice
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
Betty Boop (voice)
Pudgy the Watchman
Betty Boop
I Yam Love Sick
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The House Builder-Upper
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Be Up to Date
Betty Boop
Learn Polikeness
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Riding the Rails
Betty Boop
Let's Celebrake
Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
- 1937
Zula Hula
Betty Boop
Fowl Play
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Foxy Hunter
Betty Boop
Protek the Weakerist
Olive Oyl
The New Deal Show
Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
The Football Toucher Downer
Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Service with a Smile
Betty Boop
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
The Candid Candidate
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
I Never Changes My Altitude
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Lost and Foundry
Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
The Impractical Joker
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The Twisker Pitcher
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy Picks a Fight
Movie
Hospitaliky
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
My Artistical Temperature
Olive Oyl
The Hot Air Salesman
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Organ Grinder's Swing
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bunny Mooning
Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
The Paneless Window Washer
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
House Cleaning Blues
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- 1936
I'm in the Army Now
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Making Friends
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
The Spinach Roadster
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Be Human
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Hold the Wire
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Grampy's Indoor Outing
Betty Boop / Junior (voice)
Little Swee'pea
Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Training Pigeons
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
New Shoes
Girl's Shoes (voice)
Never Kick a Woman
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Happy You and Merry Me
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Get Movin'
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
You're Not Built That Way
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
More Pep
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
The Cobweb Hotel
Flies (voice)
Bridge Ahoy!
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
We Did It
Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
Brotherly Love
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Clean Shaven Man
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and the Little King
Betty Boop (voice)
Somewhere in Dreamland
Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- 1935
Little Nobody
Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
The Spinach Overture
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Adventures of Popeye
Olive Oyl (voice)
Making Stars
Betty Boop (voice)
King of the Mardi Gras
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Judge for a Day
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Grampy
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
A Language All My Own
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Dancing on the Moon
Various (voice, uncredited)
For Better or Worser
Olive Oyl
A Little Soap and Water
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Choose Your 'Weppins'
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Betty Boop (voice)
The Kids in the Shoe
Woman in the shoe
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Swat the Fly
Betty Boop (voice)
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Stop That Noise
Betty Boop
The Lost Chick
Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Taking the Blame
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Beware of Barnacle Bill
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Be Good
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- 1934
We Aim to Please
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
When My Ship Comes In
Betty Boop (voice)
The Dance Contest
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Keep in Style
Betty Boop
The Two-Alarm Fire
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Prize Show
Betty Boop
A Dream Walking
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Little Pal
Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Axe Me Another
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
There's Something About a Soldier
Betty Boop (voice)
Shiver Me Timbers!
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Strong to the Finich
Children (voice) (uncredited)
Can You Take It
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Trial
Betty Boop
Shoein' Hosses
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Betty Boop
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- 1933
I Eats My Spinach
Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
I Heard
Betty Boop (voice)
The Old Man of the Mountain
Betty Boop (singing voice)
Snow-White
Betty Boop (voice)
Popeye the Sailor
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Mother Goose Land
Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Big Boss
Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Birds in the Spring
Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's Penthouse
Movie
Is My Palm Read
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Betty Boop (voice)
- 1932
Time on My Hands
Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Museum
Betty Boop
Betty Boop for President
Betty Boop
Romantic Melodies
Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Betty Boop
Just a Gigolo
Betty Boop
Betty Boop, M.D.
Betty Boop
Stopping the Show
Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Rudy Vallee Melodies
Betty Boop (voice)
The Betty Boop Limited
Betty Boop (voice)
Admission Free
Betty Boop (voice)
Chess-Nuts
Betty Boop
Just One More Chance
Betty Boop (voice)
Crazy-Town
Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
One Hour with You
Office Worker (uncredited)
Minnie the Moocher
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Wayward
Showgirl (uncredited)
- 1931
Kitty from Kansas City
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Minding the Baby
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's Express
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's Initiation
Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Silly Scandals
Betty Boop (voice)
Mother Goose Melodies
Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
No release date
Betty boop "Is My Palm Read"
Betty Boop (voice)
Appearances3
1990s
- 1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
1980s
- 1988
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Self – Betty Boop (voice)
