![]() ![]() Now that’s something you don’t hear every day! This is a clip of her singing “Don’t Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away” with Rudy Vallee. In 1968, the City of Indianapolis honored her with a “Mae Questel Day”. There was something cool about that, like surprise, “I know the Wizard of OZ”. We were always so proud of Aunt Mae. Mae Questel, the original voice of Betty Boop, plays Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy &. When I was 18 I took a girl to Betty Boop cartoon Festival at one of the art theaters in Greenwich village and I asked “do you get a discount if your related to Betty?” He replied in perfect New York wise guy “Who are you, Billy Boop?” I paid full price.Īunt Mae always brought sparkle into our lives in a way that nothing else could. Nobody knew where those voices came from: they came from Aunt Mae. ![]() (Do people still use that word?) Anyway, that was a good day. 40 on 19 th street and Second Avenue to do all the voices for the entire school in the auditorium. When I was growing up she came to my second grade class at P.S. She lived on 68 th street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Imagine that, in The Depression.Īunt Mae was always a larger than life figure in our family’s lives. Her recording of “On The Good Ship Lollipop” sold more than 2 million copies during the Depression. Strakosh, in Barbra Streisand‘s film Funny Girl (1968), but you probably know her best as Aunt Bethany in 1989′s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, or as the mother in the sky in Woody Allen‘s New York Stories in the 1989 segment titled “Oedipus Wrecks.” She was also the voice of “Olive Oyl” in the Popeye’s cartoons, as well as the toddler Swee’pea. Aunt Mae dusted Betty off at one more time, at age 80, after a nearly 50-year hiatus, to do Betty Boop for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).īless her heart. She was the voice on more than 150 Betty Boop cartoons. Betty Boop’s creator Max Fleischer heard Aunt Mae doing her “boop-oop-a-doop” routine and hired her to do the character’s voice in 1931. She was every where – still is. When Aunt Mae was 17 and living in the South Bronx (like J-Lo) she won a local contest to find the girl who most resembled Helen Kane, a popular singer known as the “Boop-Oop-A-Doop Queen”. īetty Boop was a mythical figure in America. ![]() Looks like Betty, sounds like Betty, must be Betty. Desirée Goyette, was the 1980s official voice of Betty Boop and had received Mae Questels blessing in 1987, but no longer voiced Betty after the 1980s, but instead a one-shot parody Googi Goop in The Girl with the Googily Goop.Initially Melissa Fahn was the official voice of Betty Boop, but later retired from the role. Google Mae Questel and you get 169,000 results. Let’s call her Aunt Mae for the purposes of this blog. ![]()
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