Some nasty bullies even gave her the nickname Olive Oyl after cartoon character Popeye’s gangly girlfriend.

Object Details Description Olive, Magazine for City Girls Premier Issue, 1982. This is a Japanese magazine, with spine on right. The cover is gray with yellow spotlight in center with image of Olive ...

The studio is giving impatient fans a spinach-free taste of the CGI sailor, who must save his beloved Olive Oyl from the villainous Bluto.

In the 1980 film version of "Popeye," Robin Williams (as Popeye) asks Shelley Duvall (as Olive Oyl) "What kind name is Olive Oyl? It sounds like some kind of lubricant." Exactly. Olive oil can ...

Shelley Duvall, the actor best known for her work in the horror classic 'The Shining' and for turning fairy tales into TV shows, has died. She was 75.

Mae Questel, a rubber-voiced veteran of stage, screen and vaudeville who played Woody Allen’s mother in the film “New York Stories” and was the cartoon voice of Betty Boop and Oli… ...

For their new video for "Dawned on Me," the Chicago rockers partnered with King Features to be animated alongside Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto and the rest of the "Popeye" gang.

Popeye the Sailor Man has turned 75, still smoking his pipe and flexing his spinach-fuelled biceps with waifish girlfriend Olive Oyl, hamburger-mooching Wimpy and hairy arch-rival Brutus at his side.

The actress is famous for her consistent appearances in the films of Robert Altman, specifically as Olive Oyl in Altman’s “Popeye,” as well as her sterling performance in Stanley Kubrick’s ...

Popeye at 90: How the spinach-chugging sailor became an American classic Brawling mariner created by Elzie Crisler Segar ousted Olive Oyl's original boyfriend and angered Benito Mussolini on path ...

Was Olive Oyl based on a woman who owned a general store in E.C. Segar's hometown? Elzie Segar grew up in Chester, Illinois in the late 19th/early 20th Century, and it seems clear that he did, in ...