Olive Oyl in Little Swee' Pea (1936).

Olive Oyl getting her feet tickled in Shiver Me Timbers! (1934).

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theater. Image File history File links Olive-oyl-lilsweetpea1936. ... Image File history File links Olive-oyl-lilsweetpea1936. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Elzie Crisler Segar (born December 8, 1894 - died October 13, 1938) was an American cartoonist who created the famous comic-strip character Popeye in 1929. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Popeye from an opening still from one of his cartoon shorts, with his characteristic corncob pipe and single good eye. ...

Thimble Theater later became Popeye after the sailor character became the most popular member of the comic strip's cast. Olive Oyl was a character in the strip for 10 years before the first appearance of Popeye in 1929. For other uses, see Popeye (disambiguation). ...

In the strip as written by Segar, Olive was something of a coy flapper whose extremely thin build lent itself well to the fashions of the time; her long black hair was usually rolled in a neat bun, like her mother's. She was the more or less fiancée of Ham Gravy, a "lounge lizard" or slacker type who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money. His attraction to other women -- particularly if they were rich -- naturally incensed Olive, and she once succumbed to a fit of "lunaphobia" -- a kind of angry madness -- over one of his amours. (When she recovered, she continued to pretend to have the disorder to win him back.) She was not immune to flattery from other men, but remained committed to Ham until Popeye's appearance. The two did not fall in love at once (her first words to him were "Oh, shut up, you bilge rat!"), but instead fought bitterly (and hilariously) for weeks, before realizing they cared for one another. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Slacking in the park The term slacker was commonly used in the United States in World War I and World War II to describe men who were avoiding the military draft. ...

The version of Olive Oyl most widely familiar is the version from the theatrical animated cartoons, first created by Fleischer Studios, and then produced by Paramount Pictures. Unlike most modern damsels in distress, Olive Oyl has short hair, is tall, skinny, with enormous feet and not particularly attractive. In the films and later television cartoons, Olive Oyl is Popeye's girlfriend. She constantly gets kidnapped by Bluto (aka Brutus), who is Popeye's rival for her affections but Popeye always rescues her. An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). ... Fleischer Studios, Inc. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... For other uses, see Popeye (disambiguation). ... Bluto, in Im in the Army Now (1936) Bluto is a cartoon character created in 1933 by Fleischer Studios for its Popeye the Sailor theatrical animated series. ...

Though Popeye and Bluto both were infatuated with her, Olive wasn't exactly a particularly attractive individual at times, both physically and personality-wise, as she would be extremely fickle depending on who could woo her the best, who had the flashier possessions, and was prone to get angry over the tiniest things. Yet she always ended up with Popeye at the end, showing that his good nature would always get the ladies' attention. In the cartoons, she helps to take care of a baby named Little Swee'Pea; it is not made clear if Swee'Pea is Olive Oyl's own son or an adopted foundling. In the comics, Swee'Pea is a foundling under Popeye's care. SweePea is a character in E.C. Segars comic strip Thimble Theatre and in the Popeye cartoon series derived from it. ...

The voice for Olive Oyl was created by character actress Mae Questel (who also voiced Betty Boop and other characters); Questel styled Olive Oyl's voice after that of actress ZaSu Pitts; though the first two Popeye cartoons (Popeye The Sailor and I Yam What I Yam) featured Bonnie Poe as the voice of Olive Oyl. In 1938, Margie Hines took over as the voice of Olive Oyl, starting with the cartoon Bulldozing The Bull. Questel returned as the voice of Olive Oyl in 1944, starting with the cartoon The Anvil Courus Girl. Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ... Betty Boop from the opening title sequence of the earliest entries in the Betty Boop Cartoons Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures. ... Zazu Pitts (1894-1963) sporting her famous bob hairstyle ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 (?) – June 7, 1963) was a United States movie actress. ... Popeye the Sailor is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short, directed by Dave Fleischer. ...

Olive Oyl is named after olive oil, used commonly in cooking or in salads. Segar's newspaper strips also featured a number of her relatives named after other oils, including her brother Castor Oyl, their mother Nana Oyl (after "banana oil", a mild slang phrase of the time used in the same way as "horsefeathers", i.e. "nonsense" [1]), their father, Cole Oyl, and more recently, Olive's niece, Diesel Oyl (a pun on diesel oil) appears in the cartoons, while Bobby London introduced Olive's younger blonde cousin, a bit of a sexpot, appropriately named Sutra Oyl (we may assume her first name is Kama). Olive oil is a fruit oil obtained from the olive (Olea europaea), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. ... Cooking is the act of preparing food. ... Castor Oyl is a cartoon character, created in 1919 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theater, now known as Popeye. ... Isoamyl acetate is an organic compound that is the ester formed from isoamyl alcohol and acetic acid. ... Horsefeathers is a term used to say that something is nonsense, often used as an exclamation after hearing something which one totally disagrees with. ... Nonsense is an utterance or written text in what appears to be a human language or other symbolic system, that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning. ... Diesel fuel is a specific distillate fraction of fuel oil that is used in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel, and perfected by Charles F. Kettering. ... Bobby London (1950 - ) is an underground comix and mainstream comics artist. ...

In the 1980 film version, Olive is played by Shelley Duvall. One reviewer called her performance "eerily perfect". Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman, based on the comic strip and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor. ... Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is an award winning American film and television actress. ...

In July 2007, a live-animation TV commercial starring Olive Oyl will air as part of an advertising campaign for Campbell Soup Company’s Prego Italian sauces. Olive’s ad is one in a series of five different ads for Prego, which features Spice Girl Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"), Olympic Silver Medalist Lea Ann Parsley, an average American couple named Rosemary and Herb and an Englishman named Basil. In each 15-second commercial, the "flavorful" characters wonder aloud about what spice to add to their simmering pot of sauce.

Trivia

Olive Oyl was mentioned in an episode of The Norm Show (starring Norm MacDonald). Her name was given as a psychological disorder in which a woman flirts with another man but always calls for her boyfriend to either rescue her or simply to get him jealous. The Norm Show was an American television sitcom that ran from 1999 through 2001 on the ABC television network. ...

The default name of the player's daughter in the English version of Princess Maker 2 is Olive Oyl. Princess Maker 2 is the second installment in the Princess Maker series of life simulation games developed by the Japanese computer game and anime production company Gainax. ...

In the Popeye shorts Never Kick A Woman, Fireman's Brawl, Hill-Billing & Cooing, and Ballet-Hooey Olive gets to eat the spinach.

In middle school, supermodel Gisele Bundchen’s classmates teased her because she was tall and thin. They called her “Olívia Palito” in Portuguese, which translates to Olive Oyl in English.

Moschino, an Italian fragrance designer, has created a perfume bottle in the shape of Olive Oyl called "I Love."