Mae Questel (September 13, 1908–January 4, 1998) was an American actress and vocal artist best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, and played occasional small roles in films and television later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Filmography

• 2025The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons — Olive Oyl (voiice)
• 2024Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer — Mother / Olive Oyl (voice) (archive sound)
• 2014Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3 — Betty Boop
• 2014Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 4 — Betty Boop
• 2013Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 — Betty Boop
• 2013Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2 — Betty Boop
• 2012Noveltoons: Original Classics — Little Audrey
• 2011Casper The Friendly Ghost The Complete Collection 1945-1963 — Additional Voices
• Cartoon Alley
• 1989National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation — Aunt Bethany
• 1989New York Stories — Mother
• 1988Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz — Mae Questel
• 1988Who Framed Roger Rabbit — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1985Hot Resort — Mrs. Labowitz
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Betty Boop in 'Screen Snapshots' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1983Zelig — Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)
• 1970Move — Mrs. Katz
• 1968Funny Girl — Mrs. Strakosh
• 1962It's Only Money — Cecilia Albright
• 1961A Majority of One — Essie Rubin
• 1961Operation Ice-Tickle — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1961Weight for Me — Olive Oyl
• 1960Barbecue for Two — Olive Oyl
• 1960Counter Attack — Mouse
• 1960Hits and Missiles — Olive Oyl
• 1960Jeep Tale — Swee'pea
• 1960Matinee Idol Popeye — Olive Oyl (Voice)
• 1960Planet Mouseola — Mouse
• 1960Plumbers Pipe Dream — Olive Oyl
• 1960Popeye and the Giant — Sea Hag (voice)
• Popeye the Sailor — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1960Popeye's Service Station — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1960Seeing Double — Olive Oyl(voice)
• 1960Spinach Greetings — Olive Oyl
• 1960Trouble Date — Cuddles
• 1959Felineous Assault — Kitnip
• 1959Fit to Be Toyed — J.G.'s Wife, Little Boy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1959Owly to Bed — Hootie the Baby Owl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1959Talking Horse Sense — Ethel (voice)
• 77 Sunset Strip
• 1958Hansel and Gretel — Voice
• Naked City — Mrs. Annette Faber
• 1958Stork Raving Mad — Baby / Mother
• 1957Cat In The Act — Murgatroyd
• 1957From Mad to Worse — Cute Kitty
• 1957Hooky Spooky — Little Ghosts' Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
• 1957Ice Scream — Billy (voice)
• 1957Jumping with Toy — Baby Huey's Mom (voice)
• 1957Nearlyweds — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1957Pest Pupil — Baby Huey's Mommy (voice)
• 1957Spooky Swabs — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1957The Big Fun Carnival — Betty Boop
• 1957The Crystal Brawl — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956A Haul in One — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Assault and Flattery — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Dutch Treat — Hans (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Hill-billing and Cooing — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956I Don't Scare — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Line of Screammage — Billy / Neighborhood Kid / Tony's Friend (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Out to Punch — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Parlez Vous Woo — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Penguin for Your Thoughts — Baby Penguin
• 1956Popeye for President — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1956Sir Irving and Jeames — Worthington (uncredited)
• 1956Swab the Duck — Ducklings
• 1955A Bicep Built for Two — Cute Kitty
• 1955A Job for a Gob — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1955Beaus Will Be Beaus — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1955Cookin' with Gags — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1955Gift of Gag — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1955Git Along Lil' Duckie — Baby Huey's Mom
• 1955Kitty Cornered — Cuddles (voice) (uncredited)
• 1955Mister and Mistletoe — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1955Mousieur Herman — Herman's Cousin
• 1955Penny Antics — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1955Poop Goes the Weasel — Wishbone (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954Bride and Gloom — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954Crazytown — Baby / Mother / People saying goodbye (uncredited)
• 1954Floor Flusher — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954Fright to the Finish — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954Popeye's 20th Anniversary — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954Private Eye Popeye — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954Taxi-Turvy — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1954The Seapreme Court — Little Audrey / Little Fishes (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Ancient Fistory — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Baby Wants a Battle — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Child Sockology — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Firemen's Brawl — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Frightday the 13th — Lucky (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Huey's Ducky Daddy — Baby Huey's Mom
• 1953Little Boo-Peep
• 1953Of Mice and Magic — Louise the Mouse (voice)
• 1953Popeye's Mirthday — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1953Starting from Hatch — Baby Huey's Mom
• 1953Toreadorable — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1952Big Bad Sindbad — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1952Clown on the Farm — Baby Huey's Mother (voice)
• 1952Fun At The Fair — Cow
• 1952Ghost of the Town — Baby / Kids (uncredited)
• 1952Law and Audrey — Little Audrey (voice)
• 1952Lunch with a Punch — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1952Pig-a-Boo — Junior Pig / Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
• 1952Swimmer Take All — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1952The Deep Boo Sea — Billy / Billy's Brother's Friend (uncredited)
• 1951Alpine for You — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1951Boo Scout — Billy (voice)
• 1951Land of Lost Watches — Isabel / Rosita Wristwatch (voice)
• 1951Let's Stalk Spinach — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1951Miners Forty Niners — Gold Digger / Clementine
• 1951One Quack Mind — Baby Huey's Mom
• 1951Party Smarty — Baby Huey's Mom
• 1951Scout Fellow — Baby Huey's Mom
• 1951Thrill of Fair — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1951To Boo or Not to Boo — Lou / Ladies at Door (voice) (uncredited)
• 1951Tweet Music — Little Eagle / Ostrich
• 1951Vacation with Play — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Beach Peach — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• Casper the Friendly Ghost — Lou / Ladies at door (voice)
• 1950Casper's Spree Under the Sea — Goldie the Goldfish(voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Gym Jam — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Jitterbug Jive — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Land of the Lost Jewels — Isabel
• 1950Popeye Makes a Movie — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Quack-a Doodle-Doo — Baby Huey's Mommy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Quick on the Vigor — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950Teacher's Pest — Junior's Mother / Worm (voice)
• 1950The Farmer and the Belle — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949A Balmy Swami — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949A-Haunting We Will Go — Casper / Ghost Teacher (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949Barking Dogs Don't Fite — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949Hot Air Aces — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949Lumberjack and Jill — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949Our Funny Finny Friends — Carmen Miranda Fish (voice)
• 1949Popeye's Premiere — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1949Silly Hillbilly — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949Snow Foolin' — Hen / Mama Bird (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949Tar with a Star — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Flip Flap — Flip-Flap (voice)
• 1948Hector's Hectic Life — Swedish Housekeeper - Puppies (voice)
• 1948Olive Oyl for President — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Pre-Hysterical Man — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Robin Hood-Winked — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Snow Place Like Home — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Spinach vs Hamburgers — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Symphony in Spinach — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948Wigwam Whoopee — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947Abusement Park — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947All's Fair at the Fair — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947I'll Be Skiing Ya — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947Popeye and the Pirates — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947Safari So Good — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947Santa's Surprise — Little Audrey (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947The Royal Four-Flusher — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1947Wotta Knight — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946House Tricks? — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946Klondike Casanova — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1946Peep in the Deep — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946Rocket to Mars — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946Rodeo Romeo — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946Service with a Guile — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946The Fistic Mystic — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1946The Island Fling — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1945For Better or Nurse — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1945Mess Production — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1945Shape Ahoy — Olive Oyl / Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
• 1945The Friendly Ghost — Johnny (voice) (uncredited)
• 1945Tops in the Big Top — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1944Gabriel Churchkitten — Peter (voice)
• 1944Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1944Puppet Love — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1944She-Sick Sailors — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1944Spinach Packin' Popeye — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1941Mr. Bug Goes to Town — Buzz (voice) (uncredited)
• 1940The Fulla Bluff Man — Cavewoman (voice)
• 1938A Date to Skate — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938Be Up to Date — Betty Boop
• 1938Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938Buzzy Boop at the Concert — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1938I Yam Love Sick — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938Learn Polikeness — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938Let's Celebrake — Olive Oyl / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938Mutiny Ain't Nice — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938Pudgy the Watchman — Betty Boop
• 1938Riding the Rails — Betty Boop
• 1938The House Builder-Upper — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1938The Tears of an Onion — Various Vegetables (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Bunny Mooning — Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Fowl Play — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Hospitaliky — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937House Cleaning Blues — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937I Likes Babies and Infinks — Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937I Never Changes My Altitude — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Lost and Foundry — Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Morning, Noon and Night Club — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937My Artistical Temperature — Olive Oyl
• 1937Organ Grinder's Swing — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Protek the Weakerist — Olive Oyl
• 1937Pudgy Picks a Fight
• 1937Service with a Smile — Betty Boop
• 1937The Candid Candidate — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937The Football Toucher Downer — Young Olive Oyl / Swee' Pea (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937The Foxy Hunter — Betty Boop
• 1937The Hot Air Salesman — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937The Impractical Joker — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937The New Deal Show — Betty Boop / Cats / Puppy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937The Paneless Window Washer — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937The Twisker Pitcher — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1937Zula Hula — Betty Boop
• 1936A Clean Shaven Man — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Be Human — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Betty Boop and Little Jimmy — Betty Boop / Little Jimmy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Betty Boop and the Little King — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1936Bridge Ahoy! — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Brotherly Love — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Christmas Comes But Once a Year — Orphans (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Grampy's Indoor Outing — Betty Boop / Junior (voice)
• 1936Happy You and Merry Me — Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Hold the Wire — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936I Wanna Be a Life Guard — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936I'm in the Army Now — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Let's Get Movin' — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Little Swee'pea — Olive Oyl / Swee'Pea (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Making Friends — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936More Pep — Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Never Kick a Woman — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936New Shoes — Girl's Shoes (voice)
• 1936Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Somewhere in Dreamland — Mother / Boy / Girl (voice)
• 1936The Cobweb Hotel — Flies (voice)
• 1936The Spinach Roadster — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Training Pigeons — Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936We Did It — Betty Boop / Pudgy / Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
• 1936You're Not Built That Way — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935A Language All My Own — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935A Little Soap and Water — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Adventures of Popeye — Olive Oyl (voice)
• 1935Baby Be Good — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Be Kind to 'Aminals' — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Betty Boop and Grampy — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Beware of Barnacle Bill — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Choose Your 'Weppins' — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Dancing on the Moon — Various (voice, uncredited)
• 1935For Better or Worser — Olive Oyl
• 1935Judge for a Day — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935King of the Mardi Gras — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Little Nobody — Betty Boop / Mrs. Prissy / Pup Voices (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Making Stars — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1935No! No! A Thousand Times No!! — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1935Pleased to Meet Cha! — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935Stop That Noise — Betty Boop
• 1935Swat the Fly — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1935Taking the Blame — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935The Hyp-Nut-Tist — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935The Kids in the Shoe — Woman in the shoe
• 1935The Lost Chick — Squirrel Children (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935The Spinach Overture — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1935You Gotta Be a Football Hero — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934A Dream Walking — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Axe Me Another — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Betty Boop's Little Pal — Betty Boop / Pudgy (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Betty Boop's Prize Show — Betty Boop
• 1934Betty Boop's Rise to Fame — Betty Boop
• 1934Betty Boop's Trial — Betty Boop
• 1934Can You Take It — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Ha! Ha! Ha! — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Keep in Style — Betty Boop
• 1934Shiver Me Timbers! — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Shoein' Hosses — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934Strong to the Finich — Children (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934The Dance Contest — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934The Man on the Flying Trapeze — Olive Oyl / Nana Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934The Two-Alarm Fire — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934There's Something About a Soldier — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1934We Aim to Please — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1934When My Ship Comes In — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1933Betty Boop's Big Boss — Betty Boop
• 1933Betty Boop's Birthday Party — Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
• 1933Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1933Betty Boop's Penthouse
• 1933Birds in the Spring — Baby Birds (voice) (uncredited)
• 1933I Eats My Spinach — Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1933I Heard — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1933Is My Palm Read — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1933Mother Goose Land — Betty Boop
• 1933Popeye the Sailor — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• Popeye the Sailor — Betty Boop (uncredited), Olive Oyl (voice), Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
• 1933Snow-White — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1933The Old Man of the Mountain — Betty Boop (singing voice)
• 1932Admission Free — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1932Betty Boop for President — Betty Boop
• 1932Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle — Betty Boop
• 1932Betty Boop's Museum — Betty Boop
• 1932Betty Boop's Ups and Downs — Betty Boop
• 1932Betty Boop, M.D. — Betty Boop
• 1932Chess-Nuts — Betty Boop
• 1932Crazy-Town — Betty Boop / Beauty Shop Customer 1 / Beauty Shop Customer 2 (voice) (uncredited)
• 1932Just One More Chance — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1932Just a Gigolo — Betty Boop
• 1932Let Me Call You Sweetheart — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1932Minnie the Moocher — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1932Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning — Betty Boop
• 1932One Hour with You — Office Worker (uncredited)
• 1932Romantic Melodies — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1932Rudy Vallee Melodies — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1932Stopping the Show — Betty Boop / Aloysius (voice) (uncredited)
• 1932The Betty Boop Limited — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1932The Musical Doctor — Nurse Clef
• 1932Time on My Hands — Betty Boop
• 1932Wayward — Showgirl (uncredited)
• 1931Bimbo's Express — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1931Bimbo's Initiation — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1931Kitty from Kansas City — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1931Minding the Baby — Betty Boop (voice) (uncredited)
• 1931Mother Goose Melodies — Little Bo Peep / Lamb (voice) (uncredited)
• 1931Silly Scandals — Betty Boop (voice)
• 1930A Battery of Songs
• Betty boop "Is My Palm Read" — Betty Boop (voice)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1995Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons — Self / Betty Boop (archive footage)
• 1988Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town — Self – Betty Boop (voice)
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self