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The actress who played Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was the same lady who provided the voice for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl
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The original voice actor for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl (Margie Hines), died only 4 years ago at the age 101 years old. She also married the man who provided the voice of Popeye, so Olive Oyl and Popeye did eventually live together!
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Olive Oyl was a main character for 10 years before Popeye's 1929 appearance.
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Olive Oyl was a comic strip character for 10 years before Popeye was created.
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Nintendo never intended to create Mario. The original arcade Donkey Kong was intended to be a Popeye game. When they lost the license, they came up with their own characters; Mario for Popeye, Donkey Kong for Bluto and Pauline for Olive Oyl.
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Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl in the original Popeye cartoon, voiced Popeye himself in a few shorts where his voice actor, Jack Mercer, was unavailable
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As a child Shelly Duvall would be taunted by other kids calling her Olive Oyl. As an adult Robert Altman casted her as Olive Oyl in 'Popeye' telling her this was the part she was born to play.
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Olive Oyl was drawn ten years before Popeye was.
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Donkey Kong was originally supposed to be based on Popeye, with Bluto as the gorilla, Olive Oyl as the damsel in distress, and Popeye as what would become Mario.
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Mario, Donkey Kong and the Princess were originally last minute replacements created for the first Donkey Kong game (which was originally Popeye The Sailor - The Game, having Popeye, Bluto and Olive Oyl as the main characters)
