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