Mae Questel
Mae Questel (* September 13, 1908 in New York; † January 4, 1998 in New York) was an American actress and voice actress.
Life
A native of the Bronx, New York artist began her acting career as a stage actress and played inter alia, on Broadway in vaudeville theaters, where she imitated esp. actresses like Marlene Dietrich and Fanny Brice and male colleagues such as Rudy Vallee and Maurice Chevalier and parodied.
With her voice she should eventually experience the career highlight, although her name one of them remained largely unknown. From the 1930s lent Questel her voice the cartoon character Betty Boop. This figure was so popular that one of Mae Questel intoned in her Betty Boop - voice version of Shirley Temple's The Good Ship Lollipop sold more than two million copies. In addition, she said, other known cartoon characters, such as Casper, the friendly ghost and 1933-1967 Popeyes in a total of 450 episodes girlfriend Olive Oyl ( in the German version of Olivia oil).
While a large diversity of voices proved in their "voice acting", her acting performances were often fixed stereotyped on the type of the often caricatured subscribed Jewish woman. She played such a way in 1959 on Broadway in A Majority of One, as well as in the film adaptation in 1961 incurred. Woody Allen designed the role of the mother in his tragicomedy New York Stories based on the character from A Majority of One, and they also occupied with Questel. For his film Zelig about a human chameleon he made them even interpret the Betty Boop theme song Chameleon Days - at the same time a profound allusion to the main message of the film and a chance for Mae Questel, as personalized Betty Boop once in words and pictures simultaneously to present.
Mae Questel died on 4 January 1998 at the age of 89 years.