This is a long way to go to say that no one knows for SURE who was the inspiration for Popeye's love, Olive Oyl, but there are two notable possibilities, and one of them involves a former ...

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 happy ending. Popeye and Olive go out for a drive in the ...

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 sailor-themed town of Chester ...

The scene: Olive Oyl’s house. 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 ...

We are just now learning that the 1980 movie “Popeye” had more going on during ... as that character’s famous love interest, Olive Oyl. When Cooper asked Diller if he “instantly knew ...

And they used to call me Olive Oyl,” in reference to the cartoon character from Popeye. “And, you know, kids call each other names. My neck’s quite long, so I used to try to shrug my neck ...

Items on the block include a battery-operated Popeye and Olive Oyl toy tank, which is estimated to bring between $10,000 and $20,000, and a Popeye airplane and Hubley cast-iron motorcycle.

His credo is ‘I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam.’ His girlfriend is the gangly, uncoordinated Olive Oyl, for whose attention Popeye vies constantly with Bluto, his bearded, hulking rival.

In his 1980 review for “Popeye,” The Times’ late film critic Charles Champlin praised Duvall for “her deliciously addled, uncoordinated, petulant but finally quite endearing Olive Oyl.” ...

Shelley Duvall wasn’t a stranger to rejection. In the ‘80s, television executives struggled to take the actor seriously as a producer when she pitched her idea to turn fairy tales into live ...