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 ...

Popeye the Sailor and Bluto are destroying the house while fighting for the affection of Olive Oyl. It starts out as an even battle (Bluto hits Popeye with a chair, Popeye hits Bluto with a table ...

Episode 1 Oil's Well That Ends Well Thu, Aug 3, 1961 6 mins Oily Brutus swindles Olive Oyl out of her game show winnings with a worthless oil well. It's up to Popeye to grease the path towards a ...

To those who love classic cartoon character Popeye and his entourage of Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Swee’Pea and others, the folks in Chester, Ill. have something to see.

The film co-starred Altman regular Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl. The movie was a box office success with $60 million worldwide (unadjusted for inflation), nearly double its production budget.

Popeye is coasting back to the big screen. The iconic sailor man and spinach chugger, who first appeared in comic strips in the late 1920s, will be the subject of a new live-action feature film ...

Popeye is a banjo-playing sailor on a riverboat going down the Mississippi; Olive Oyl is a mysterious stranger in a red riding hood; Wimpy the Indian Scout is her father; and Brutus is the ...

Popeye befriends an assortment of eccentrics and falls in love with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), who already has a suitor, the bully Bluto (Paul L. Smith). Popeye also discovers an abandoned baby ...