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Mae Questel - Celluloid Capers
During the '30s, a live-action Mae portrayed a Boop-ish character in several Paramount short subjects and was also in a Paramount feature called Wayward. The studio offered her a Hollywood contract in 1932 but typically, she turned it down and remained in New York at the request of her first husband. As with most of her ambitions, film success did ultimately come to Mae. All she had to do was live her life and wait for it.
During the '60s and '70s, she appeared in It's Only Money with Jerry Lewis, Move with Elliott Gould and Funny Girl with Gould's ex-wife Barbra Streisand. She became familiar to audiences, who may not even have known she was Betty Boop, as a quintessential Jewish mother. In the late 1980s, she played her most important Jewish mother in Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks segment of the film New York Stories.
During the '60s and '70s, she appeared in It's Only Money with Jerry Lewis, Move with Elliott Gould and Funny Girl with Gould's ex-wife Barbra Streisand. She became familiar to audiences, who may not even have known she was Betty Boop, as a quintessential Jewish mother. In the late 1980s, she played her most important Jewish mother in Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks segment of the film New York Stories.
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