Birthday

1908-09-13

Died

1998-01-04

Birthplace

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Gender

Female

Known For

Acting

Mae Questel

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.

Acting Credits

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Betty Boop (voice)

Cookin' with Gags

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Farmer and the Belle

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Alpine for You

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Olive Oyl for President

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Firemen's Brawl

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Wigwam Whoopee

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Bicep Built for Two

Cute Kitty

Mousieur Herman

Herman's Cousin

Cat In The Act

Murgatroyd

From Mad to Worse

Cute Kitty

Felineous Assault

Kitnip

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Aunt Bethany

Fun At The Fair

Cow

Planet Mouseola

Mouse

Trouble Date

Cuddles

Talking Horse Sense

Ethel (voice)

Miners Forty Niners

Gold Digger / Clementine

Tweet Music

Little Eagle / Ostrich

Land of Lost Watches

Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)

Stork Raving Mad

Baby / Mother

Counter Attack

Mouse

The Cobweb Hotel

Flies (voice)

Big Bad Sindbad

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Child Sockology

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Beaus Will Be Beaus

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Swimmer Take All

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Quick on the Vigor

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Lunch with a Punch

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Vacation with Play

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Thrill of Fair

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Stalk Spinach

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye Makes a Movie

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Jitterbug Jive

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Beach Peach

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Gym Jam

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Barking Dogs Don't Fite

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Snow Place Like Home

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

It's Only Money

Cecilia Albright

Ice Scream

Billy (voice)

Popeye and the Giant

Sea Hag (voice)

One Hour with You

Office Worker (uncredited)

The Lost Chick

Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)

Funny Girl

Mrs. Strakosh

House Cleaning Blues

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

The Impractical Joker

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Mess Production

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

For Better or Nurse

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Shape Ahoy

Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Barbecue for Two

Olive Oyl

New York Stories

Mother

Taking the Blame

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

The Candid Candidate

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Hansel and Gretel

Voice

Training Pigeons

Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)

Mister and Mistletoe

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Tops in the Big Top

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Quack-a Doodle-Doo

Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)

Spinach Packin' Popeye

Olive Oyl (voice)

The Friendly Ghost

Johnny (voice) (uncredited)

I Don't Scare

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Snow-White

Betty Boop (voice)

Time on My Hands

Betty Boop

Be Human

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

The Kids in the Shoe

Woman in the shoe

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Betty Boop (voice)

Silly Scandals

Betty Boop (voice)

Rudy Vallee Melodies

Betty Boop (voice)

Romantic Melodies

Betty Boop (voice)

Mother Goose Land

Betty Boop

Betty Boop's Museum

Betty Boop

A Majority of One

Essie Rubin

Bimbo's Initiation

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Flip Flap

Flip-Flap (voice)

A-Haunting We Will Go

Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)

Assault and Flattery

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Haul in One

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Paneless Window Washer

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Floor Flusher

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

You're Not Built That Way

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Pudgy Picks a Fight

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)

The Old Man of the Mountain

Betty Boop (singing voice)

The Tears of an Onion

Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town

Self

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle

Betty Boop

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

Betty Boop

Chess-Nuts

Betty Boop

A Job for a Gob

Olive Oyl (voice)

Swat the Fly

Betty Boop (voice)

Penny Antics

Olive Oyl (voice)

Clown on the Farm

Baby Huey's Mother (voice)

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz

Mae Questel

No! No! A Thousand Times No!!

Betty Boop (voice)

Popeye the Sailor

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Starting from Hatch

Baby Huey's Mom

Huey's Ducky Daddy

Baby Huey's Mom

Scout Fellow

Baby Huey's Mom

Git Along Lil' Duckie

Baby Huey's Mom

Party Smarty

Baby Huey's Mom

One Quack Mind

Baby Huey's Mom

Private Eye Popeye

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye's Service Station

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

To Boo or Not to Boo

Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)

The Deep Boo Sea

Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)

Ghost of the Town

Baby / Kids (uncredited)

Frightday the 13th

Lucky (voice) (uncredited)

I Yam Love Sick

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Is My Palm Read

Betty Boop

For Better or Worser

Olive Oyl

A Clean Shaven Man

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Brotherly Love

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Bridge Ahoy!

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop's Birthday Party

Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)

Choose Your 'Weppins'

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

I Wanna Be a Life Guard

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Seapreme Court

Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Get Movin'

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop's Ups and Downs

Betty Boop

Crazy-Town

Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)

Kitty Cornered

Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)

Gabriel Churchkitten

Peter (voice)

Pest Pupil

Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)

Jumping with Toy

Baby Huey's Mom (voice)

The Two-Alarm Fire

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Stopping the Show

Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)

Never Kick a Woman

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Bimbo's Express

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop, M.D.

Betty Boop

Little Swee'pea

Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)

Hold the Wire

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop's Big Boss

Betty Boop

Betty Boop for President

Betty Boop

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

Betty Boop

The Spinach Roadster

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

I'm in the Army Now

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Spinach vs Hamburgers

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Silly Hillbilly

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Baby Wants a Battle

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop's Penthouse

Organ Grinder's Swing

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

More Pep

Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)

The Dance Contest

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

We Aim to Please

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Beware of Barnacle Bill

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Be Kind to 'Aminals'

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop and the Little King

Betty Boop (voice)

Pleased to Meet Cha!

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Zelig

Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)

Swab the Duck

Ducklings

You Gotta Be a Football Hero

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Poop Goes the Weasel

Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye's Mirthday

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Taxi-Turvy

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye's 20th Anniversary

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Hector's Hectic Life

Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)

Toreadorable

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Operation Ice-Tickle

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Minnie the Moocher

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop on Trial

Betty Boop

The Big Fun Carnival

Betty Boop

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

King of the Mardi Gras

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Adventures of Popeye

Olive Oyl (voice)

The Spinach Overture

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Foxy Hunter

Betty Boop

Service with a Smile

Betty Boop

A Battery of Songs

My Artistical Temperature

Olive Oyl

Betty Boop's Little Pal

Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)

The Twisker Pitcher

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop's Prize Show

Betty Boop

Mutiny Ain't Nice

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Hospitaliky

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Nearlyweds

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Spooky Swabs

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Hill-billing and Cooing

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Teacher's Pest

Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)

Pudgy the Watchman

Betty Boop

Stop That Noise

Betty Boop

The New Deal Show

Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)

Shiver Me Timbers!

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Can You Take It

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Betty Boop Limited

Betty Boop (voice)

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

Mother / Olive Oyl (voice) (archive sound)

Ancient Fistory

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Riding the Rails

Betty Boop

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

I Likes Babies and Infinks

Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)

Dutch Treat

Hans (voice) (uncredited)

Law and Audrey

Little Audrey (voice)

Wayward

Showgirl (uncredited)

I Never Changes My Altitude

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Celebrake

Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop and Grampy

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Learn Polikeness

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

I Heard

Betty Boop (voice)

Keep in Style

Betty Boop

Fowl Play

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

I Eats My Spinach

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Dream Walking

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Axe Me Another

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Football Toucher Downer

Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Be Up to Date

Betty Boop

Zula Hula

Betty Boop

Protek the Weakerist

Olive Oyl

When My Ship Comes In

Betty Boop (voice)

Crazytown

Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)

Just One More Chance

Betty Boop (voice)

Fright to the Finish

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

All's Fair at the Fair

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Shoein' Hosses

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

There's Something About a Soldier

Betty Boop (voice)

Bride and Gloom

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

She-Sick Sailors

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Out to Punch

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Parlez Vous Woo

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Just a Gigolo

Betty Boop

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Minding the Baby

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Hot Resort

Mrs. Labowitz

Christmas Comes But Once a Year

Orphans (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions

Betty Boop (voice)

New Shoes

Girl's Shoes (voice)

Hooky Spooky

Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)

Puppet Love

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Penguin for Your Thoughts

Baby Penguin

Boo Scout

Billy (voice)

Kitty from Kansas City

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Baby Be Good

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The House Builder-Upper

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Date to Skate

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Santa's Surprise

Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)

Gift of Gag

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

House Tricks?

Olive Oyl (voice)

Move

Mrs. Katz

Mother Goose Melodies

Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)

Buzzy Boop at the Concert

Betty Boop (voice)

Bunny Mooning

Bunny (voice) (uncredited)

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy

Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)

The Musical Doctor

Nurse Clef

Line of Screammage

Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)

Dancing on the Moon

Various (voice, uncredited)

Land of the Lost Jewels

Isabel

Birds in the Spring

Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye for President

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Crystal Brawl

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Hyp-Nut-Tist

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Fit to Be Toyed

J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)

I'll Be Skiing Ya

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Pre-Hysterical Man

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Robin Hood-Winked

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Symphony in Spinach

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Lumberjack and Jill

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Hot Air Aces

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Balmy Swami

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Tar with a Star

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Strong to the Finich

Children (voice) (uncredited)

Morning, Noon and Night Club

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Lost and Foundry

Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)

Somewhere in Dreamland

Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)

Abusement Park

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Royal Four-Flusher

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Island Fling

Olive Oyl (voice)

Peep in the Deep

Olive Oyl (voice)

Popeye and the Pirates

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Wotta Knight

Olive Oyl (voice)

Safari So Good

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

The Fistic Mystic

Olive Oyl (voice)

Rodeo Romeo

Olive Oyl (voice)

Service with a Guile

Olive Oyl (voice)

Rocket to Mars

Olive Oyl (voice)

Klondike Casanova

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

A Little Soap and Water

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye's Premiere

Olive Oyl (voice)

Grampy's Indoor Outing

Betty Boop / Junior (voice)

Making Friends

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo

Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Happy You and Merry Me

Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)

Spinach Greetings

Olive Oyl

The Fulla Bluff Man

Cavewoman (voice)

Matinee Idol Popeye

Olive Oyl (Voice)

Weight for Me

Olive Oyl

Little Nobody

Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)

The Hot Air Salesman

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Hits and Missiles

Olive Oyl

Jeep Tale

Swee'pea

Plumbers Pipe Dream

Olive Oyl

A Language All My Own

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

Judge for a Day

Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)

We Did It

Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)

Seeing Double

Olive Oyl(voice)

Owly to Bed

Hootie the Baby Owl (voice) (uncredited)

Sir Irving and Jeames

Worthington (uncredited)

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Buzz (voice) (uncredited)

Admission Free

Betty Boop (voice)

Our Funny Finny Friends

Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)

Casper's Spree Under the Sea

Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)

The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons

Olive Oyl (voiice)

Casper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963

Additional Voices

Noveltoons: Original Classics

Little Audrey

Snow Foolin'

Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)

77 Sunset Strip

Naked City

Mrs. Annette Faber

Cartoon Alley

Popeye the Sailor

Olive Oyl (voice)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self