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A Battery of Songs (1930)
Character: N/A
Famed Major League baseball pitcher Waite Hoyt, playing for the New York Yankees in 1930, in addition to being a mortician in the off-season, was also a singer of note, appearing often on New York radio and in this Vitaphone short. He teams with songwriter J. Fred Coots, and an uncredited boop-a-doop singer in this nine-minute Vitaphone short.
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Pest Pupil (1957)
Character: Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
1957 Baby Huey is a big duck enrolled in kindergarten. Despite being big and clumsy, he attempts to fit in, causing havoc and getting expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is also tortured by Baby Huey's good intentioned efforts. The tutor winds up in the ocean but Huey saves his life from sharks and gets his diploma as a reward.
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Romantic Melodies (1932)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Bimbo leads an awful German street band to serenade Betty Boop, but she prefers Arthur Tracy, 'Street Singer of the Air,' who in live- action sings several old-fashioned songs with a Bouncing Ball.
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Time on My Hands (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
In this surrealist entry, a fisherman deals with rebellious worms; a diver flirts with a Betty Boop-like mermaid who becomes Ethel Merman, singing the title song in live-action with a Bouncing Ball.
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop, a nursemaid, meets a masher in the park; with the Bouncing Ball, Ethel Merman sings the title song.
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Rudy Vallee Melodies (1932)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop, trying to keep a party lively, is aided by Rudy Vallee, who comes to live-action life from a sheet music cover and sings several songs with the Bouncing Ball.
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Silly Scandals (1931)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist.
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A Haul in One (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, then into a table; though he hardly seems to need it, Popeye still eats his spinach, then thrashes Bluto.
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When My Ship Comes In (1934)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop wins the Irish Sweepstakes, and fantasizes about what she'll do with the money.
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Dancing on the Moon (1935)
Character: Various (voice, uncredited)
Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery.
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Pudgy Picks a Fight (1937)
Character: N/A
Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it...
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The Seapreme Court (1954)
Character: Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water.
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Be Human (1936)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
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The Foxy Hunter (1937)
Character: Betty Boop
Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop's care to go hunting with a pop-gun.
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The New Deal Show (1937)
Character: Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop emcees a show of pet-aid gadgets. Object: a "new deal for pets." Some ideas copied from Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933).
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Service with a Smile (1937)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop is desk clerk at the Hi-De-Ho-Tel ("Food Served with Every Meal") where the guests have many legitimate complaints. Fortunately, Grampy's inventions fix everything.
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Zula Hula (1937)
Character: Betty Boop
Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.
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Just One More Chance (1932)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty Boop entertains at a gambling den with Bimbo in attendance; Arthur Jarrett (film debut) sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball.
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Be Up to Date (1938)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store comes to Hillbillyville; the mountain folks find old uses for the new gadgets.
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Pudgy the Watchman (1938)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop hires a feline professional "Mouse Eradicator" to take over from Pudgy the Pup who makes friends with mice.
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Law and Audrey (1952)
Character: Little Audrey (voice)
Audrey plays baseball with Pal, but she hurts and angers a police man several times, that he chases her, but Audrey rescues him from drowning in a pond.
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Boo Scout (1951)
Character: Billy (voice)
Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.
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Hooky Spooky (1957)
Character: Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
On their way to Night School, Casper the Friendly Ghost and his pal, Spooky Ghost, pass a zoo, and Spooky has a good time scaring the animals until Casper, posing as the ghost of the scared denizens of the zoo, scares Spooky.
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From Mad to Worse (1957)
Character: Cute Kitty
The mice are having a great time playing on a train in a department store's toy department until night watchman Katnip comes along.
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Ice Scream (1957)
Character: Billy (voice)
Caspar masquerades as a snowman and teaches a young boy to ice skate, so he can race with his older brother.
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Penny Antics (1955)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
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Kitty Cornered (1955)
Character: Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
Snardley, a crooked butler, learns that the only thing between him and a fortune is a little cat, Kitty Kuddles, to whom a wealthy spinster has willed her estate. The butler tries to kill the wealthy cat.
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Beaus Will Be Beaus (1955)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...
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Git Along Lil' Duckie (1955)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him. A fox comes along and the ducklings flee and leave Huey to fight the enemy. The fox uses an exploding-cigar, a shotgun and dynamite against him but Huey is too tough and the fox winds up being the pursued.
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Toreadorable (1953)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him.
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Popeye's Mirthday (1953)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways.
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Huey's Ducky Daddy (1953)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
Hubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes all kinds of trouble and ends up catching a whale.
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Firemen's Brawl (1953)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house.
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Lunch with a Punch (1952)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him.
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Swimmer Take All (1952)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win. Some of the bits: Popeye's suit is connected to a fish hook; the fish unravels it and Popeye knits it back together. Bluto is on a raft and blows sneezing powder at Popeye. Bluto attaches a magnet to Popeye which attracts a mine (which ends up blowing Popeye much closer to the line). Bluto dumps a load of cement on Popeye.
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Clown on the Farm (1952)
Character: Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
Baby Huey, the man-sized duckling, wants to play circus with the regular-size ducks, and they trick him into a barrel which almost goes over a cliff. It doesn't but it puts him into the hands of a hungry fox, who tries all manner of tricks to make Baby Huey palatable. They all fail and Baby Huey winds up as the circus ringmaster, putting the defeated fox through all kinds of tricks.
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Party Smarty (1951)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc and the baby ducks blindfold Huey and send him away playing pin the tail on the donkey.
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Let's Stalk Spinach (1951)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches.
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Vacation with Play (1951)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive.
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Scout Fellow (1951)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be too big and stupid to join. When a wolf shows up all the other ducks run away but Huey mistakes him for the scout master, and asks for his help. The wolf gives him several tasks to perform, all designed with Huey ending up on the wolf's dinner table, but dumb Huey turns the situations and the wolf is rendered harmless. The scouts make Huey an honorary member, and the battered wolf is used as a patrol flag.
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Thrill of Fair (1951)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, Olive, and Swee'pea take their pig, Smedley, to the fair to enter it in the livestock show. While Popeye is distracted, Swee'pea crawls off following his balloon and narrowly avoids all sorts of peril (that Popeye, close behind, manages to get caught by).
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Alpine for You (1951)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick. Olive finally has had enough, and goes off with Bluto, who promptly gets her alone in a dark cave. Her screams bring Popeye, whose battle with Bluto carves a Mount Rushmore replica in a mountain-top. Bluto knocks Popeye into a snowbank, where a Saint Bernard dog revives him with spinach (after consulting a handy Popeye comic book). Popeye bashes Bluto into a mountain, forming a Paramount logo.
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One Quack Mind (1951)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
Dumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a baby sitter. Hue also turns out to be one tough duck when he discovers his new baby sitter likes to play rough. So does Huey, who proceeds to beat the stuffing out of the fox.
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Jitterbug Jive (1950)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them. Finally, Bluto pours quick-drying cement in the apple water and drives off with Olive. Popeye, encased in cement, rolls downhill into a vegetable shop, right next to a bin of spinach. Good thing, because Bluto's getting fresh in a very old-fashioned way. A zoot-suited Popeye stops him, and gets the girl.
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Land of the Lost Jewels (1950)
Character: Isabel
Two children are fishing when they catch a talking fish named Red Lantern. He takes them underwater with him to the Land of the Lost, where missing items can be found again. They meet King Find All, a walrus, and a singing cricket (Hoppy-Go-Lucky) that used to be the girl's pin. He's deemed to be a special jewel (since he's made of emerald) and is brought to the jewel storage room, despite his wishes to be in the Land of the Toys...
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Quick on the Vigor (1950)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged.
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The Farmer and the Belle (1950)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by. They compete for the job. Chores: Getting water from a well, picking apples, shoeing a horse, gathering eggs. Popeye feeds a hen a little spinach, and she produces a mountain of eggs, which eventually end up all over Bluto. Bluto drops an anvil on Popeye, then goes after Olive against her wishes, chasing her into a succession of haystacks (where he finds a needle!). The chicken feeds Popeye his spinach, and he triumphs, sending Bluto into the pigpen (where the pigs won't have anything to do with him).
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Beach Peach (1950)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on.
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Teacher's Pest (1950)
Character: Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
This Noveltoon (Paramount production number P9-5) finds young-and-little Junior Owl on his way to school, and trying hard to live up to the reputation of his elders for being wise. But, despite his best efforts, Mr. Wolf knows a few wise tricks of his own, and Junior lands in the wolf's pot of boiling water. But Mama Owl saves him from being the main course of Mr. Wolf's dinner, and Junior lends a hand himself.
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Gym Jam (1950)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off.
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Riding the Rails (1938)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop goes to work on the subway (Trample 'Em R.R. Co.); Pudgy the Pup follows her and gets more ride than he bargained for.
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The Fulla Bluff Man (1940)
Character: Cavewoman (voice)
A persistent door-to-door salesman tries to sell his wares in a gated community that doesn't allow peddlers. He makes a killing selling clubs to a bunch of battling street brawlers.
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Puppet Love (1944)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.
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Mess Production (1945)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life.
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Shape Ahoy (1945)
Character: Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck raft. They both pretend to ignore her, but woo her behind each other's back.
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Tops in the Big Top (1945)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach.
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The Island Fling (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft.
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Wotta Knight (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails.
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Spinach vs Hamburgers (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.
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Flip Flap (1948)
Character: Flip-Flap (voice)
Little Flip-Flap, a seal, is unhappy in the confines of the swimming tank in a big-city zoo. He breaks out and heads for the North Pole, where he meets a pretty girl-seal. She is captured by seal-hunters and sent to the zoo. Flip-Flap decides to return to the zoo and is happy when he is reunited with his sweetheart.
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Gabriel Churchkitten (1944)
Character: Peter (voice)
This cartoon concerns the efforts of a kitten, Gabriel, and a mouse, Peter, who apparently live in peaceful coexistence in the home of Parson Peaseporridge, to get the Parson to wake up at night and feed them their milk and cheese, respectively. The Parson repeatedly rises up, in a fit of sleepwalking, and reaches the cupboard, while muttering the need to feed the "churchkitten" and "churchmouse," but then proceeds to drink the milk and eat the cheese himself. Eventually, the kitten and mouse enlist the aid of a neighboring puppy named Trumpet to achieve their goal.
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Jumping with Toy (1957)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a duck dinner out of Baby Huey.
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Fit to Be Toyed (1959)
Character: J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
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Barbecue for Two (1960)
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in.
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Cat In The Act (1957)
Character: Murgatroyd
Unaware that Katnip is the night watchman, Herman takes his three nephews to Paramount Pictures Studios on a sightseeing trip. They sneak in and find fake alligators and a fake King Kong, but a real live Katnip. Herman promises to make Katnip a movie star if he will let them go.
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Felineous Assault (1959)
Character: Kitnip
Katnip teaches his little nephew Kitnip how to catch a mouse. Kitnip goes into Herman's mousehole and gets stuck under a pipe. Herman rescues Kitnip. Instead of being a supposed enemy, Kitnip becomes Herman's friend instead!
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Trouble Date (1960)
Character: Cuddles
Creepers tries to get Jeepers to get the courage to ask for a date with a bathing beauty that Jeepers knew as a "puppy." Jeepers helps Creepers look for his old girlfriend.
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Land of Lost Watches (1951)
Character: Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)
Little Billy and Isabel catch Red Lantern, the Magic Fish. He takes them to the Land Of The Lost to meet King Find All, Rosita Wristwatch, and Wally Pocketwatch.
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Stork Raving Mad (1958)
Character: Baby / Mother
A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy in the process. The stork has a rush delivery, but the baby isn't ready to settle down yet.
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Planet Mouseola (1960)
Character: Mouse
A mouse fools Scat the cat into thinking that he's from another planet.
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Tweet Music (1951)
Character: Little Eagle / Ostrich
Singalong with spot gags about birds.
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Popeye and the Giant (1960)
Character: Sea Hag (voice)
Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk. Brutus notices him and puts growth pills on a hamburger. Wimpy then eats it, and it causes him to grow very big. Brutus takes the towering moocher to the circus, but they refuse to hire him. Wimpy seeks help from the Sea Hag, who puts him in a baby carriage. Popeye sees his friend's large size and tries to shrink him down by feeding him spinach, but it only makes him grow bigger. He gives Wimpy a hamburger, which turns him back to normal. Wimpy thanks Popeye and promises to pay him Tuesday for today's hamburger.
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Popeye's Service Station (1960)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl.
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Operation Ice-Tickle (1961)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes.
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Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer (2024)
Character: Mother / Olive Oyl (voice)
A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).
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Quack-a Doodle-Doo (1950)
Character: Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue of one and all. Huey is a hero basking in his new-found popularity.
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Mister and Mistletoe (1955)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decorate. Bluto disguises himself as Santa and horns in on Olive.
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Crazy-Town (1932)
Character: Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Bimbo take a wild streetcar ride to Crazy Town, where birds swim, fish fly, and everthing else reverses normal behavior.
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Floor Flusher (1954)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.
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I'm in the Army Now (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.
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I Yam Love Sick (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns illness. The doctors are at a loss for a cure.
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A Date to Skate (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control.
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The Impractical Joker (1937)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?
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The Twisker Pitcher (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.
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I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane.
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To Boo or Not to Boo (1951)
Character: Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People".
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The Deep Boo Sea (1952)
Character: Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play. He meets up with Casper, and the two build a raft together and sail out to to sea to search for pirate treasure... and find it.
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Ghost of the Town (1952)
Character: Baby / Kids (uncredited)
In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people.
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Frightday the 13th (1953)
Character: Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
There's good boos tonight: Frightday the 13th. All the ghosts plan on going out to scare someone... except for Casper the Friendly Ghost, who goes out and makes friends with Lucky the black cat.
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Dutch Treat (1956)
Character: Hans (voice) (uncredited)
Casper, the always friendly and friend-seeking ghost, is in Holland where little Hans is a willing playmate as he does his chores.
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Nearlyweds (1957)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
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Line of Screammage (1956)
Character: Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
Even dead kids can be a bad influence. Take what happens to Billy for example. Casper the "friendly" ghost takes the slightly awkward little boy under his wing, and before long the two of them are cheating in a local football game.
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Hill-billing and Cooing (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.
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Parlez Vous Woo (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character.
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Swab the Duck (1956)
Character: Ducklings
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft, he sends them flying into the hungry fox's frying pan. Huey accidentally frees them when he jumps onto the fox in his enthusiasm to join them. The fox decides he'd rather pursue the gigantic Huey than the tiny ducklings, and when he overhears Huey wishing he could play pirate, the fox dresses as a pirate aboard a convenient nearby replica pirate ship.
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Poop Goes the Weasel (1955)
Character: Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P14-6) which finds Waxey the Weasel invading a chicken-coop where a chicken named Wishbone has just been hatched. Waxey the Weasel takes off after Wishbone but the chick manages to outwit the weasel. Wishbone pleads that he is innocent and helpless as he leads Waxey into the clutches of a sinister, weasel-hating guard dog.
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Gift of Gag (1955)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.
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Taxi-Turvy (1954)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').
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Crazytown (1954)
Character: Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.
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Private Eye Popeye (1954)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it.
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Starting from Hatch (1953)
Character: Baby Huey's Mom
The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcited. Egg To Be Named Huey." A fox steals the giant egg and escapes with it. When he uses a hammer to crack the egg, Baby Huey is hatched. The fox tries to cook the king-size duckling. Huey mistakes the fox for his mommy and thinks that he's just trying to give him a bath. He chases the fox, thinking that the fox is his mother and trying to escape him. In tears, his mother shows up with a milk bottle. Baby Huey is overjoyed: "I'm the luckiest duck in the world, I've got two mothers."
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Child Sockology (1953)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving.
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Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth.
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Mutiny Ain't Nice (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is leaving on his sailing ship, much to Olive's chagrin. She ends up accidentally stowing away in a trunk. Popeye discovers her, but she can't stay, because the crew will think she's a jinx. She tries to hide, but this only scares the crew more, because they think the ship's haunted. When she is revealed, the crew comes after her to throw her off, and then turns on captain Popeye.
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Learn Polikeness (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.
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She-Sick Sailors (1944)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach.
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Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo (1944)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.
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Rodeo Romeo (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad. Dynamite, the bronco that's never been ridden busts out and Popeye, seeing his chance, downs some spinach and manages an impressive series of tricks, culminating in firing a bullet at Bluto and lassoing it just in time. Bluto's had enough, and he substitutes loco weed for Popeye's spinach, then challenges him to throw the bull. Popeye's fried brain sees the bull as a beautiful woman; he tries to dance with it. The bull throws Popeye against the box where Bluto is now sitting and throws the remaining loco weed into Bluto's open mouth; he sees Olive as a bull and grabs her. He tries to brand her; her cries of help arouse Popeye, who pulls out a fresh can of spinach and goes to work.
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Klondike Casanova (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive.
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Safari So Good (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens across a Tarzan-like man (Bluto), and she and he are immediately smitten with one another. Popeye catches wind of this and isn't about to stand for the jungle hunk muscling in on his girl. Let the fighting and one-upmanship begin.
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Abusement Park (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park.
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All's Fair at the Fair (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger.
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I'll Be Skiing Ya (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.
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Barking Dogs Don't Fite (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller.
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Silly Hillbilly (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on.
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Hot Air Aces (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightning bolt, passes him. Bluto catches up again, and removes Popeye's engine. The plane crashes into the ocean, but fortunately, there's a case of spinach and a giant magnet nearby, so Popeye rebuilds the plane, using spinach cans to replace the missing pistons, and wins the race, as his spinach exhaust fries Bluto's plane.
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Lumberjack and Jill (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
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Hits and Missiles (1960)
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese.
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Jeep Tale (1960)
Character: Swee'pea
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale about a mama jeep and her four children- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day, they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterward, the good farmer invites them over for more spinach.
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Plumbers Pipe Dream (1960)
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye's bungling attempts to fix Olive's faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.
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Betty Boop's Museum (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
Koko is recruiting customers for a 50 cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko's only passenger. Betty gets locked inside by accident. The skeletons from the displays come to life and chase Betty, until she is finally rescued by Bimbo.
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Bimbo's Express (1931)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop (with dog's ears) is moving; Bimbo comes with his moving van and is smitten with her. Songs: "Moving Day," "Hello Beautiful."
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Horrible Horror (1986)
Character: Betty Boop in 'Hollywood on Parade No. A-8'
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
Character: Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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The Musical Doctor (1932)
Character: Nurse Clef
Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.
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New Shoes (1936)
Character: Girl's Shoes (voice)
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes.
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The Big Fun Carnival (1957)
Character: Betty Boop
The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children. Marian Stafford, folk-singer Jared Reed, and The Bunin Puppets appear before and after each cartoon short. All of the cartoon shorts were originally released by Paramount, and included "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943)" - Betty Boop's "Crazy Town (1932)" - "The Silly Goose/Dumme Ganslein, Der (1945)" - "The Busy Little Bears (1939)" - "Toys Will Be Toys (1949)", and other Paramount cartoons, shorts and a couple of the audience-participation Screen Song singalong shorts. Strictly sold on a "Park-the-kids-and-go-shopping" or "Cheap Baby-Sitting" basis, and, since it was geared toward the kids, there was also a bath-room break intermission about halfway through the film. New footage and some of the cartoons in Technicolor, but a few of the cartoons were black-and-white.
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Judge for a Day (1935)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge.
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Baby Be Good (1935)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale.
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The Hot Air Salesman (1937)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets.
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The Candid Candidate (1937)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy to be the new mayor and he wins. As soon as he takes office, the citizens come out from everywhere to complain and to demand he fix things. Grampy is in his element.
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We Did It (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the pup take the blame as usual?
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Training Pigeons (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop is training a flock of pigeons, but one stray leads Pudgy the pup on a precarious chase.
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You're Not Built That Way (1936)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways.
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Grampy's Indoor Outing (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are prevented by a thunderstorm from going to the carnival. Inventive Grampy devises a substitute.
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More Pep (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the real world with rapid results.
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Happy You and Merry Me (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
A stray kitten wanders into Betty Boop's house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the pup.
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Making Friends (1936)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals.
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Little Nobody (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup meets the female pup next door, whose snobbish owner calls him a "little nobody". A pep talk from Betty Boop turns Pudgy into a hero.
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House Cleaning Blues (1937)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!
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Seeing Double (1960)
Character: Olive Oyl(voice)
Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, two thugs build a Popeye robot to do their bidding.
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Bunny Mooning (1937)
Character: Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene).
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Just a Gigolo (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a romantic tom-cat gigolo.
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Hansel and Gretel (1958)
Character: Voice
Musical adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story broadcast as a live television special on NBC.
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Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
Character: Betty Boop
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
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The Tears of an Onion (1938)
Character: Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
It's harvesting season, so all the fruits and vegetables come out to play.
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Morning, Noon and Night Club (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
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Fowl Play (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.
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Weight for Me (1961)
Character: Olive Oyl
After six months at sea, Popeye and Brutus see that Olive has become overweight after eating too much out of feeling lonely. Popeye wants to help her get thinner while Brutus says she is fine like that. The sailor's attempts to make her exercise are thwarted by his rival each time, ending with both Olive and Popeye trapped in the exercise machines the latter had bought. But eating spinach turns the tables and allows Popeye to trim down his beloved's pounds by using his forearms as a reducing machine. Brutus then decides to follow their example.
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Out to Punch (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye.
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The Football Toucher Downer (1937)
Character: Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
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Ancient Fistory (1953)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach.
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Stop That Noise (1935)
Character: Betty Boop
A sleepless Betty can't take the noise of the city any more, and heads out into the country for some peace and quiet. She soon discovers that the country has its own problems.
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The Hyp-Nut-Tist (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue.
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New York Stories (1989)
Character: Mother
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
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For Better or Worser (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained.
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Cookin' with Gags (1955)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto disguises himself as a coy flapper and joins the class. Believing Bluto to be a woman, Popeye is very annoyed when Bluto tries to show him up.
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Santa's Surprise (1947)
Character: Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
Seven children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve and decide to surprise him with some help around the house while he sleeps.
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Let's Celebrake (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.
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Chess-Nuts (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and football. Koko appears.
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Betty Boop's Little Pal (1934)
Character: Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the Pup makes a mess of Betty Boop's picnic, is sent home, and runs afoul of the dog catcher.
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The Two-Alarm Fire (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive's huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each other than the fire. When Bluto goes to the roof to rescue Olive, the fire strands him there. Popeye eats his spinach and rescues them, but it's too late for the house.
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Minnie the Moocher (1932)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
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Wigwam Whoopee (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.
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Betty Boop's Ups and Downs (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
Due to the great depression, property prices start falling. The planet Earth goes up for sale. Mars and Venus make bids, but Saturn, characterised as an old Jew, makes a lower but winning bid. Then just to see what happens, he removes the earth's magnet, and gravity disappears.
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The Lost Chick (1935)
Character: Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Character: Aunt Bethany
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
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For Better or Nurse (1945)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The boys see lovely nurse Olive pass by and follow her to her hospital. She throws them out, so they scheme to hurt themselves enough to get hospitalized, with no luck. Bluto gets a wall to fall on him, but stands in the window. Popeye tries to get run over by a steam-roller, but a street cleaner saves him. Bluto dives off a skyscraper - into a huge pile of mattresses. Popeye stands in a naval gunnery range, but the gunners miss the target. Bluto taunts a bull, but stands next to a billboard of an attractive cow, which distracts the bull. Popeye crashes a plane, but the ambulance crew rescues the plane. The boys compete to get run over by a train, but punch each other off the tracks just as the train arrives. Finally, Popeye forces a can of spinach down Bluto's throat and gets a pounding. That lands him in the hospital but not Olive's; they failed to notice the sign: "Cat and Dog Hospital." They start fighting like cats and dogs, and get hauled off to the looney bin.
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Mother Goose Land (1933)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty, while reading a book of Mother Goose stories, wishes she could visit such a wonderful place. Betty's wish is granted when Mother Goose appears, and gives her a tour of Mother Goose Land. Betty has a wonderful time until Little Miss Muffet's spider chases her, with lecherous ends in mind. All of the characters come to Betty's rescue. Betty wakes up in bed with all the fairy tale characters surrounding her.
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Popeye the Sailor (1933)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.
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Is My Palm Read (1933)
Character: Betty Boop
For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.
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Little Swee'pea (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
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Betty Boop for President (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.
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It's Only Money (1962)
Character: Cecilia Albright
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?
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Hector's Hectic Life (1948)
Character: Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
Hector is a dog with an easy life and the run of the house when the lady of the house gives him a warning...one more mess and you're out. Hector would be okay if not for the fact that three little puppies have been left on their doorstep. Hector has a hectic time keeping them in line and cleaning up their messes without alerting the lady.
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The Kids in the Shoe (1935)
Character: Woman in the shoe
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. They won't eat their porridge, won't brush their teeth or comb their hair. As soon as their mother's in bed, they launch a wild party, playing musical instruments and doing a swinging rendition of Smiley Burnette's classic "Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Round Here." They then have a massive pillow fight until the old woman wakes up.
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Snow-White (1933)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.
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A Job for a Gob (1955)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede.
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Be Kind to 'Aminals' (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive Oyl can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene.
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The Spinach Roadster (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.
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Can You Take It (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, "Can you take it?", is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto puts Popeye through the tests, and while he fares better than most, he still ends up in the hospital ward, until he eats his spinach and goes after the members.
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I Likes Babies and Infinks (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.
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Bridge Ahoy! (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to sabotage this plan - until spinach time, of course.
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Betty Boop's Trial (1934)
Character: Betty Boop
A traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial.
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Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Buzzy Boop at the Concert is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop's young Tomboy cousin Buzzy Boop.
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Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?
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Penguin for Your Thoughts (1956)
Character: Baby Penguin
After startling a stork who drops his package, Casper the Friendly Ghost delivers a baby penguin to its parents at the South Pole.
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Swat the Fly (1935)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
Betty wants to bake a cake, but a fly appears in her kitchen and all heck breaks loose.
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Popeye for President (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won't vote, and the election outcome be decided, until her chores are done. Popeye and Bluto compete to complete them.
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House Tricks? (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.
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The Betty Boop Limited (1932)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
On a special train, Betty's show troupe rehearses: Betty sings, Bimbo juggles, and Koko does a soft-shoe. The train itself also does tricks.
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Minding the Baby (1931)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Bimbo's minding his baby brother, but neighbor Betty Boop (with dog's ears) wants him to come over and play.
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Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength.
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Popeye's Premiere (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.
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The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues.
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A-Haunting We Will Go (1949)
Character: Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
Casper the Friendly Ghost, sad that he can make no friends since everyone he meets is afraid of him, hatches an abandoned egg and becomes the emerging little duck's best friend and protector.
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One Hour with You (1932)
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Somewhere in Dreamland (1936)
Character: Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive home. Their poor mother sets before them the only food she can: Stale bread. The children get ready for bed; In their dreams, visions of ice cream and donuts, candies and cakes fill their sleeping minds-- Will they awake to the same sorry situation?
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Organ Grinder's Swing (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion.
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Shoein' Hosses (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop.
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A Balmy Swami (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans. First, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks. Next, he hypnotizes Olive, but while she's walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the boys race to save her. Popeye's efforts are hampered by Bluto's magic, like the instant brick wall he builds. Bluto awakens her, and she attacks him and then panics. Popeye throws her a hook to save her; it does, but it crashes through a window, bringing a piano (!) out with it. The piano crashes on the building, and Olive is catapulted by the strings to a distant platform. Another race to save her. As Popeye is trapped in a plummeting elevator, he breaks out the spinach.
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Kitty from Kansas City (1931)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball.
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Robin Hood-Winked (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to collect taxes and falls for Olive.
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Pre-Hysterical Man (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up in the dinosaur, but the caveman (longing for a woman) saves her. Olive falls for him, but Popeye, noticing Olive's absence, comes down and saves her from the caveman. They fight it out; the caveman stuffs Popeye into a not-quite-empty spinach can and feeds him to the dinosaur, but of course, Popeye breaks out and wins the day.
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The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
Character: Betty Boop (singing voice)
Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
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Peep in the Deep (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.
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Let's Get Movin' (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.
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Snow Place Like Home (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre's Trading Post; unfortunately, Pierre has eyes for Olive.
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I Heard (1933)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
The miners at Never Mine go to Betty Boop's Tavern (a jazz-jumpin' place) for lunch. Back in the mine, Bimbo delves into weird realms.
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Wayward (1932)
Character: Showgirl (uncredited)
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
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Axe Me Another (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest.
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Hot Resort (1985)
Character: Mrs. Labowitz
Young guys on the make get a job at a resort hotel in the Caribbean.
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Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
In a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand.
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We Aim to Please (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two customers are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay you Tuesday" schtick) and Bluto, who orders 6 sandwiches and refuses to pay for them. This leads, of course, to a fight, which Popeye needs his spinach to win.
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Never Kick a Woman (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.
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Beware of Barnacle Bill (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course).
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Spinach Packin' Popeye (1944)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her, and is preparing to join the army (where Bluto apparently is). Popeye stops her at the door, and insists on showing her sequences from two earlier two-reelers to prove his strength, but she's unimpressed. Fortunately, this was all a dream; he awakens in the blood bank, and dashes over to see Olive, who reaffirms her love.
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Brotherly Love (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good deeds: helping two workmen raise a safe, straightening a wrecked car, and helping two boys sneak into a baseball game. But when he tries to break up a fight, it's more than he can handle alone. Olive and her followers come along and try to help, but it's too much for them, too. Of course, once Popeye has his spinach...
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The Dance Contest (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.
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A Dream Walking (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero.
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Protek the Weakerist (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.
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Bride and Gloom (1954)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is marrying Olive tomorrow; he's ecstatic. She has a dream of the future, including twin sons who prove to be a real handful. When Popeye comes by the next morning, he gets a frosty reception.
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Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936)
Character: Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
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Adventures of Popeye (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures.
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Service with a Guile (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store. Meanwhile, the boys stop by on a 24-hour leave, and start to be "helpful" - which of course means that the tire, then the entire car, are in serious trouble. Not that Popeye doesn't do some amazing things to save the car; he carries it, atop a hoist, to the top of a very tall building under construction, then outruns it as it falls, and catches it, unscathed; the car is demolished, however, when Bluto snatches the hoist away and lets the car fall the remaining couple of meters onto Popeye. Spinach time: He manages to rebuild the car, apparently good as new, in the time it takes the admiral to walk back from the cigar store, so Bluto shoves him away to take credit. But the car falls to pieces when it's started, and the admiral puts Bluto on rust-scraping duty as Popeye and Olive float by in a rowboat.
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Move (1970)
Character: Mrs. Katz
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
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The House Builder-Upper (1938)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build her a new house.
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Choose Your 'Weppins' (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye.
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The Friendly Ghost (1945)
Character: Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.
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The Paneless Window Washer (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.
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Taking the Blame (1935)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty brings home a cat as a playmate for her pet puppy, Pudgy. The cat manages to get Pudgy blamed for all his misbehaviour.
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Zelig (1983)
Character: Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
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Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell a weird concoction in their medicine show.
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King of the Mardi Gras (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath.
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Assault and Flattery (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without provocation. Popeye then tells his side.
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Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934)
Character: Betty Boop
In a melodrama at the Slumbertown Theatre, Freddie is the sheriff and Betty is a school-marm desired by outlaw "Phillip the Fiend."
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Baby Wants a Battle (1953)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants.
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Pleased to Meet Cha! (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow.
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Popeye and the Pirates (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover.
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Popeye Makes a Movie (1950)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, which makes up over 80% of this release (beginning with Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy suffering in the desert), and despite admonitions, the nephews get involved a couple times, most notably tossing Popeye his can of spinach.
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The Royal Four-Flusher (1947)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks.
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A Bicep Built for Two (1955)
Character: Cute Kitty
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists the aid of Herman. Herman, with bad-intentions, puts Katnip through a muscle-building course which consists of weight-lifting, bar-chinning and equipment rigged with high explosives.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Character: Betty Boop (voice)
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
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Fright to the Finish (1954)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks.
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
Character: Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s.
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Hospitaliky (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.
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The Fistic Mystic (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye pounces on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming; Popeye blows a hornpipe on his pipe. Bluto next turns Popeye into a parrot. Bluto then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes and gives parrot Popeye his spinach, which revives him. Bluto escapes with the rope trick and a flying carpet, but Popeye uses his pipe like a rocket to get aloft. Another battle, with Popeye using Bluto's own magic to turn Bluto into a canary. Popeye and Olive fly the carpet home, past the Statue of Liberty.
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Tar with a Star (1949)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners.
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Birds in the Spring (1933)
Character: Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home.
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The Cobweb Hotel (1936)
Character: Flies (voice)
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.
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The Spinach Overture (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show Popeye up. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach.
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You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive.
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A Clean Shaven Man (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.
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Lost and Foundry (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble.
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I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.
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A Language All My Own (1935)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop takes her stage act on the road, and plays in Japan to great acclaim.
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Stopping the Show (1932)
Character: Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
At the theatre, a 'Paramouse Noose Reel' and a Bimbo and Koko cartoon are followed by Betty Boop's stage performance; she sings and does imitations of Helen Kane, Fanny Brice and Maurice Chevalier.
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Symphony in Spinach (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
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Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934)
Character: Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
After drawing Betty Boop, Max Fleischer (live-action) leaves the studio; Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, releasing enough laughing gas to convulse the 'real world.'
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks by Sindbad.
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A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing (1948)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik. A sheik, looking a lot like Bluto, happens to overhear this and sets up a kissing booth. He carries her away to his luxurious tent. Popeye finally finishes up and notices Olive is gone; he chases after her, but his camel suffers a blowout. Meanwhile, the sheik has been wooing Olive. Popeye arrives, and after briefly sharing the hookah with the sheik, tries to leave with Olive. The sheik will have none of it; he wraps Popeye like a mummy and fires him with a cannon into the sphinx. Fortuitously, there's a can of spinach inside, and Popeye saves the day.
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Strong to the Finich (1934)
Character: Children (voice) (uncredited)
Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the values of spinach: he feeds some to a tree, which grows huge and sprouts a variety of fruit; he feeds a hen, which lays a dozen eggs, and he eats some himself to resist a prizefighter passing by.
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Funny Girl (1968)
Character: Mrs. Strakosh
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
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Spooky Swabs (1957)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.
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Rocket to Mars (1946)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice)
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides).
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Big Bad Sindbad (1952)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl.
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Betty Boop's Birthday Party (1933)
Character: Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy.
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The Crystal Brawl (1957)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball.
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I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him.
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A Majority of One (1961)
Character: Essie Rubin
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
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Betty Boop's Big Boss (1933)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty takes a secretarial job where the boss sexually harasses her… but not without some encouragement from Betty.
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Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936)
Character: Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
Betty tries a regime of exercise, but her weight loss gets out of hand. She sings "Keep Your Girlish Figure".
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My Artistical Temperature (1937)
Character: Olive Oyl
Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto.
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Shiver Me Timbers! (1934)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways.
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I Don't Scare (1956)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th.
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Hold the Wire (1936)
Character: Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house.
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Matinee Idol Popeye (1960)
Character: Olive Oyl (Voice)
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production.
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Keep in Style (1934)
Character: Betty Boop
Betty Boop puts on a musical show of new inventions and styles; her creation of "ankle skirts" sweeps the nation.
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