![]() ![]() Mae also did Betty Boop, and my guess is they didn't want the same voice for both characters in the same cartoon. Her voice was a lot lower than Mae Questel's who did Olive for most, if not all, of the other cartoons. The only thing different was Bonnie Poe doing some voice work as Olive. Betty does a quick Hawaiian dance which she did in several other cartoons before they made her put more clothes on by the end of 1934. Betty only has a small number in here, so even if the cartoon is under name, it's really Popeye's. ![]() That storyline went on for decades but was always fun to see as the sailor man bested the bearded bully time after time. Popeye demonstrates his strength, dexterity and resourcefulness in his screen debut and it's quickly established Bluto is the enemy and wants Olive. The combination of sight gags and music - they loved music in cartoons and movies back in the '30s - is guaranteed to make you feel good after watching. It's tough to beat these clever, funny 1930s Popeye cartoons. (There was no television back then.) Anyway, just watching the first few minutes of this cartoon produced a big smile on my face. ![]() Actually, we find out it's a "Betty Boop" as Betty joins in the singing, with a similar lyric about it "being a cinch that every inch he's a sailor." Popeye came from the comic strips, so the first thing we see when the story begins in a newspaper headline reading, "Popeye A Movie Star," meaning the audience will now see him at the movie theater. Right off the in the introduction, other - not Popeye - is singing a "Strike Up the Band" song. Wow, it's interesting to see how different this first Popeye cartoon was from all the others we are used to seeing. ![]()
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