Because Segar had no plans for Popeye to be a regular until his popularity made it clear he needed to be , Popeye did not get paired with Olive Oyl until a little later. Once it became clear there might be possibilities with Popeye instead of Ham, Olive and Popeye bantered for weeks before realizing they cared for each other.
Olive was sometimes attracted to other men but always ends up with Popeye. Tough guy Bluto aka Brutus and Popeye have many issues they fight over, and Olive Oyl is a prime one…Bluto frequently kidnaps her and Popeye eventually ingests enough spinach to overcome Bluto and get her back. When we remember Popeye and Olive Oyl, it is generally not in their comic strip form. Most baby boomers grew up with the animated Popeye cartoons being a popular show of the day.
Other times, she would help to take care of a baby named Little Swee'Pea ; it is not made clear in Fleischer's continuity if Swee'Pea is Olive's biological or adopted son. In the comics, Swee'Pea is a foundling under Popeye's care.
Later sources, mostly in the cartoon series, say that Swee'Pea is Olive Oyl's cousin or nephew that she has to take care of from time to time.
Because of the episodic nature of the shorts, Olive's character was severely limited to only serving as a damsel-in-distress who was often kidnapped by Bluto and saved by Popeye. However some shorts did show her as being as much of a scrapper as in Thimble Theatre.
Unlike most modern damsels-in-distress, Olive Oyl has her hair tied back tightly in a bun and is tall and skinny, with oversized feet and rubber-like limbs, making viewers often wonder why so many men find her so appealing and are willing to resort to violence for her. Following the takeover of the Popeye animated franchise by Paramount Studios in , Famous Studios made drastic changes which abandoned almost all traces of Thimble Theatre and focused largely on plots involving Popeye, Olive, Bluto in something resembling a love triangle, without many other characters appearing and with very few shorts deviating from that setup, which involved Olive falling for Bluto and Popeye beating him after eating spinach in an oft-repeated formula.
Olive's design was changed quite a bit, now being given more hair, smaller feet, wider eyes and a more feminine face, likely as to try making her a more attractive prize for suitors to fight over. This re-design also brought in a drastic change in Olive's personality, where she was now always completely helpless, along with being more vain and fickle towards others, especially Popeye, whom, unlike in previous media, she would quickly leave at the drop of hat over petty or questionable reasons, which made the character come off as very superficial, and only a few shorts ever retained any resemblance to how she was.
In , the first Popeye the Sailor animated television series was produced for first-run syndication which proved successful.
Like the earlier theatrical cartoon series, it would use many elements that were already well known, mostly the basic storyline of Popeye trying to keep his sweetheart Olive safe from the hands of other male suitors while using spinach to remain fit and healthy.
While the show did involve Popeye and Olive's love life, episodes actually focused more on Popeye and his adventures around the world and beyond not unlike the Fleischer and comic strip incarnation. In the show's pilot, Olive's design was faithful to her original depiction, but when the series was picked up she was made to look like her Famous Studios incarnation. Olive also usually helped Popeye against The Sea Hag in this show much like in Thimble Theatre due to his unwillingness to harm women.
The show also saw a new addition to Olive's family in the form of her niece, Deezil Oyl. Unlike the previous show, this series had higher-quality animation and was more akin to Segar's work and Fleischer cartoons than other Popeye animations, with Olive being seen as less cowardly and more daring, and her design was also changed back to match her original look rather than her design from the Famous Studios and s eras.
Olive also gained a new gimmick in that whenever she ate spinach, she temporarily became a superhero called Wonder Olive. She also gained her own segment titled Private Olive Oyl , where she was teamed up with Alice the Goon.
In said segment, both were female army recruits trying to learn the ropes and protocols of army life while having to endure the strict enforcement of their no-nonsense superior, Bertha Blast. In , a theatrical movie called Popeye was released, featuring an original story and serving as a more faithful adaptation to Segar's Thimble Theatre. In the film, Olive was played by Shelley Duvall and one reviewer called her performance "eerily perfect".
Also of note was that the film featured Olive's brother Castor Oyl in a major supporting role, making it the second theatrical instance of the two siblings together since the Fleischer cartoon The Spinach Overture. In , the most recent animated series focusing on Popeye was produced, entitled Popeye and Son. The series was unique in the Popeye franchise for taking place later in Popeye's life, where he and Olive Oyl finally got married, settled down and had a son of their own a notable change considering the rarity of having well-known cartoon characters actually move on with their lives.
In it, Olive served as a trendy mother who was always eager to help her son and family. Later sources mostly in the cartoon series say that Swee'Pea is Olive Oyl's cousin or nephew that she has to take care of from time to time. Olive Oyl is named after olive oil , used commonly in cooking. Segar's newspaper strips also featured a number of her relatives named after other oils, including her brother, Castor Oyl, their mother, Nana Oyl and their father Cole Oyl.
She was thereafter voiced by character actress Mae Questel who also voiced Betty Boop and other characters. Questel styled Olive's voice after that of actress ZaSu Pitts. In the film version , Olive is portrayed by Shelley Duvall. Popeye the Sailor Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Children watched her long, shadowy figure behind the counter at the general store she owned, but they would seldom go in. Little did Olive Oyl, and in particular her soon-to-be-jilted boyfriend, Ham Gravy, know that a certain sailor was to wipe away all there hard fought fame and dominate the strip from onwards.
And, in many ways, that made Olive Oyl a second class citizen in her own strip.
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