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 ...

We are just now learning that the 1980 movie “Popeye” had more going on during filming than has previously been revealed.

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 ...

Among the observations to be gleaned from a new volume edited by Peter Maresca, “Thimble Theater and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar,” is that Olive Oyl was not always a paragon of gangly ...

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 ...

As does director Robert Altman's 1980 film starring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as his oft-fought-over sweetheart Olive Oyl. That movie was tepidly received initially. So was ...

Both Popeye and Tintin will walk the path of Steamboat Willie in 2025 − free for use in their original versions. Olive Oyl, Popeye's spunky side-kick and sweetheart is already unbound from ...

Thimble Theater had already been running in the New York Journal for a decade — Popeye was merely a one-arc guest character in the adventures of Ham Gravy (boyfriend to Olive Oyl) and Castor Oyl ...