Mae Questel
Born: 1908-09-13 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1998-01-04
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons as Olive Oyl (voiice)
2024
- Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer as Mother / Olive Oyl (voice) (archive sound)
2014
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3 as Betty Boop
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 4 as Betty Boop
2013
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 as Betty Boop
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2 as Betty Boop
2012
- Noveltoons: Original Classics as Little Audrey
2011
- Casper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963 as Additional Voices
2004
1995
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
1989
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as Aunt Bethany
- New York Stories as Mother
1988
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Betty Boop (voice)
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town as Self
- Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz as Mae Questel
1985
- Hot Resort as Mrs. Labowitz
1983
- Zelig as Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970
- Move as Mrs. Katz
1968
- Funny Girl as Mrs. Strakosh
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- It's Only Money as Cecilia Albright
1961
- Weight for Me as Olive Oyl
- A Majority of One as Essie Rubin
- Operation Ice-Tickle as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1960
- Popeye the Sailor as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Jeep Tale as Swee'pea
- Planet Mouseola as Mouse
- Seeing Double as Olive Oyl(voice)
- Popeye's Service Station as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye and the Giant as Sea Hag (voice)
- Plumbers Pipe Dream as Olive Oyl
- Matinee Idol Popeye as Olive Oyl (Voice)
- Barbecue for Two as Olive Oyl
- Trouble Date as Cuddles
- Spinach Greetings as Olive Oyl
- Hits and Missiles as Olive Oyl
- Counter Attack as Mouse
1959
- Talking Horse Sense as Ethel (voice)
- Fit to Be Toyed as J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
- Felineous Assault as Kitnip
- Owly to Bed as Hootie the Baby Owl (voice) (uncredited)
1958
- Naked City as Mrs. Annette Faber
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Stork Raving Mad as Baby / Mother
- Hansel and Gretel as Voice
1957
- Nearlyweds as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Spooky Swabs as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Jumping with Toy as Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
- Ice Scream as Billy (voice)
- Pest Pupil as Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
- The Big Fun Carnival as Betty Boop
- Hooky Spooky as Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
- The Crystal Brawl as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- From Mad to Worse as Cute Kitty
- Cat In The Act as Murgatroyd
1956
- Hill-billing and Cooing as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Swab the Duck as Ducklings
- Out to Punch as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- I Don't Scare as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Parlez Vous Woo as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye for President as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Line of Screammage as Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
- A Haul in One as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Sir Irving and Jeames as Worthington (uncredited)
- Assault and Flattery as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Penguin for Your Thoughts as Baby Penguin
- Dutch Treat as Hans (voice) (uncredited)
1955
- Penny Antics as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Mousieur Herman as Herman's Cousin
- Gift of Gag as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Poop Goes the Weasel as Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
- Kitty Cornered as Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
- A Bicep Built for Two as Cute Kitty
- Beaus Will Be Beaus as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Cookin' with Gags as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- A Job for a Gob as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Git Along Lil' Duckie as Baby Huey's Mom
- Mister and Mistletoe as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1954
- Floor Flusher as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Crazytown as Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
- Taxi-Turvy as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye's 20th Anniversary as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Private Eye Popeye as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Fright to the Finish as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Bride and Gloom as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Seapreme Court as Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
1953
- Frightday the 13th as Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
- Huey's Ducky Daddy as Baby Huey's Mom
- Little Boo-Peep
- Popeye's Mirthday as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Ancient Fistory as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Starting from Hatch as Baby Huey's Mom
- Baby Wants a Battle as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Toreadorable as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Child Sockology as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Firemen's Brawl as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1952
- Clown on the Farm as Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
- Big Bad Sindbad as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Swimmer Take All as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Pig-a-Boo as Junior Pig / Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
- Ghost of the Town as Baby / Kids (uncredited)
- Lunch with a Punch as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Fun At The Fair as Cow
- The Deep Boo Sea as Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
- Law and Audrey as Little Audrey (voice)
1951
- Scout Fellow as Baby Huey's Mom
- Boo Scout as Billy (voice)
- Party Smarty as Baby Huey's Mom
- Alpine for You as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Let's Stalk Spinach as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- One Quack Mind as Baby Huey's Mom
- To Boo or Not to Boo as Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
- Land of Lost Watches as Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)
- Miners Forty Niners as Gold Digger / Clementine
- Tweet Music as Little Eagle / Ostrich
- Vacation with Play as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Thrill of Fair as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1950
- Beach Peach as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Quick on the Vigor as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye Makes a Movie as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Casper's Spree Under the Sea as Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)
- The Farmer and the Belle as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Land of the Lost Jewels as Isabel
- Quack-a Doodle-Doo as Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
- Teacher's Pest as Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
- Gym Jam as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Jitterbug Jive as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1949
- Hot Air Aces as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Lumberjack and Jill as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- A-Haunting We Will Go as Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
- Silly Hillbilly as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Tar with a Star as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye's Premiere as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Barking Dogs Don't Fite as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- A Balmy Swami as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Our Funny Finny Friends as Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)
- Snow Foolin' as Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)
1948
- Wigwam Whoopee as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Snow Place Like Home as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Spinach vs Hamburgers as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Olive Oyl for President as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Flip Flap as Flip-Flap (voice)
- Symphony in Spinach as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Pre-Hysterical Man as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Hector's Hectic Life as Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
- Robin Hood-Winked as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1947
- Abusement Park as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Safari So Good as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Santa's Surprise as Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
- All's Fair at the Fair as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye and the Pirates as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- I'll Be Skiing Ya as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Wotta Knight as Olive Oyl (voice)
- The Royal Four-Flusher as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1946
- House Tricks? as Olive Oyl (voice)
- The Island Fling as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Rocket to Mars as Olive Oyl (voice)
- The Fistic Mystic as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Peep in the Deep as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Klondike Casanova as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Rodeo Romeo as Olive Oyl (voice)
- Service with a Guile as Olive Oyl (voice)
1945
- The Friendly Ghost as Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
- For Better or Nurse as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Mess Production as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Shape Ahoy as Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
- Tops in the Big Top as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1944
- Puppet Love as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Gabriel Churchkitten as Peter (voice)
- Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- She-Sick Sailors as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Spinach Packin' Popeye as Olive Oyl (voice)
1941
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town as Buzz (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- The Fulla Bluff Man as Cavewoman (voice)
1938
- Let's Celebrake as Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
- Learn Polikeness as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Pudgy the Watchman as Betty Boop
- Be Up to Date as Betty Boop
- The Tears of an Onion as Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
- I Yam Love Sick as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Riding the Rails as Betty Boop
- A Date to Skate as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Mutiny Ain't Nice as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The House Builder-Upper as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Buzzy Boop at the Concert as Betty Boop (voice)
1937
- Organ Grinder's Swing as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- I Likes Babies and Infinks as Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
- Fowl Play as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Hospitaliky as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Paneless Window Washer as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Football Toucher Downer as Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
- The Hot Air Salesman as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Bunny Mooning as Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
- The Candid Candidate as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Pudgy Picks a Fight
- Morning, Noon and Night Club as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Zula Hula as Betty Boop
- I Never Changes My Altitude as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Service with a Smile as Betty Boop
- House Cleaning Blues as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- The Impractical Joker as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- My Artistical Temperature as Olive Oyl
- The Foxy Hunter as Betty Boop
- Protek the Weakerist as Olive Oyl
- Lost and Foundry as Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
- The Twisker Pitcher as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The New Deal Show as Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
1936
- New Shoes as Girl's Shoes (voice)
- Training Pigeons as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Be Human as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Bridge Ahoy! as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Grampy's Indoor Outing as Betty Boop / Junior (voice)
- Let's Get Movin' as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- More Pep as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
- Making Friends as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Never Kick a Woman as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Spinach Roadster as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Brotherly Love as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- I'm in the Army Now as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- You're Not Built That Way as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- I Wanna Be a Life Guard as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- A Clean Shaven Man as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Swee'pea as Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
- Betty Boop and Little Jimmy as Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
- I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Cobweb Hotel as Flies (voice)
- We Did It as Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
- Christmas Comes But Once a Year as Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
- Happy You and Merry Me as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
- Somewhere in Dreamland as Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
- Betty Boop and the Little King as Betty Boop (voice)
- Hold the Wire as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1935
- Dancing on the Moon as Various (voice, uncredited)
- Little Nobody as Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
- Betty Boop and Grampy as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lost Chick as Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
- The Spinach Overture as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Stop That Noise as Betty Boop
- A Language All My Own as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Choose Your 'Weppins' as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- You Gotta Be a Football Hero as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- For Better or Worser as Olive Oyl
- The Hyp-Nut-Tist as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Baby Be Good as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Adventures of Popeye as Olive Oyl (voice)
- No! No! A Thousand Times No!! as Betty Boop (voice)
- Swat the Fly as Betty Boop (voice)
- Judge for a Day as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- The Kids in the Shoe as Woman in the shoe
- A Little Soap and Water as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Be Kind to 'Aminals' as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- King of the Mardi Gras as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Taking the Blame as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Beware of Barnacle Bill as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Making Stars as Betty Boop (voice)
- Pleased to Meet Cha! as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1934
- Betty Boop's Little Pal as Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
- The Dance Contest as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- A Dream Walking as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Betty Boop
- Shiver Me Timbers! as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- We Aim to Please as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- When My Ship Comes In as Betty Boop (voice)
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze as Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- There's Something About a Soldier as Betty Boop (voice)
- Betty Boop's Prize Show as Betty Boop
- Betty Boop's Trial as Betty Boop
- Ha! Ha! Ha! as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Can You Take It as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Strong to the Finich as Children (voice) (uncredited)
- Keep in Style as Betty Boop
- Shoein' Hosses as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- Axe Me Another as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Two-Alarm Fire as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1933
- Popeye the Sailor as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Snow-White as Betty Boop (voice)
- Birds in the Spring as Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
- Betty Boop's Birthday Party as Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
- Betty Boop's Penthouse
- Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions as Betty Boop (voice)
- The Old Man of the Mountain as Betty Boop (singing voice)
- I Heard as Betty Boop (voice)
- Mother Goose Land as Betty Boop
- Is My Palm Read as Betty Boop (voice)
- Betty Boop's Big Boss as Betty Boop
- I Eats My Spinach as Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
1932
- Wayward as Showgirl (uncredited)
- One Hour with You as Office Worker (uncredited)
- Chess-Nuts as Betty Boop
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart as Betty Boop (voice)
- Minnie the Moocher as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Time on My Hands as Betty Boop
- Admission Free as Betty Boop (voice)
- Crazy-Town as Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
- Stopping the Show as Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
- Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle as Betty Boop
- Rudy Vallee Melodies as Betty Boop (voice)
- Just a Gigolo as Betty Boop
- The Betty Boop Limited as Betty Boop (voice)
- Betty Boop's Ups and Downs as Betty Boop
- Just One More Chance as Betty Boop (voice)
- Betty Boop for President as Betty Boop
- Betty Boop's Museum as Betty Boop
- Romantic Melodies as Betty Boop (voice)
- Betty Boop, M.D. as Betty Boop
- The Musical Doctor as Nurse Clef
- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning as Betty Boop
1931
- Bimbo's Initiation as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Silly Scandals as Betty Boop (voice)
- Mother Goose Melodies as Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
- Bimbo's Express as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Kitty from Kansas City as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
- Minding the Baby as Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)