Johnson Cath Smith Crisalli family genealogy - Person Sheet
Johnson Cath Smith Crisalli family genealogy - Person Sheet
Misc. Notes
A note from Ian Webb said she was an “actress, married, divorced, no children.” A quick Google search turned up the name Olive Lamoy as the actress who played Olive Oyl in a radio adaptation of Thimble Theatre featuring Popeye in 1935 (though the information, attached in a separate note, was less than flattering).
Misc. Notes
From http://home.earthlink.net/~thimbletheatre/spotlightradio.html:
Three ill-fated attempts were made to broadcast a Popeye radio program in the 30s. Wheatena hot cereal sponsored the show on September 10, 1935 thru March 27, 1936. Roughly 75 episodes aired on the NBC Red Network on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights at 7:15pm. Wheatena reportedly paid King Features $1,200 per week for the rights to the sailor. The show followed Amos & Andy, the most listened to program in radio history. Despite this desirable lead-in, Popeye failed to capture an adequate audience.
Detmar Poppen, a Broadway veteran, played Popeye. This was the producer's first error in judgment. Poppen's impression of the squint-eyed sailor was only vaguely reminiscent of the familiar cartoon voices of Billy Costello or Jack Mercer who preceded him. Olive Lamoy as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy were equally inept at recreating their screen counterparts. Child actor Jimmy Donnelly rounded out the cast as Matey the Newsboy, an annoying non-Segar character who filled in as a poor substitute for Swee'pea (whose limited vocabulary tended not to work well on radio). One redeeming quality of the show was the music of Victor Erwin and his Cartoonland Band, whose orchestra also performed on the Fleischer cartoons.
Only a handful of these shows have survived. Perhaps this is merciful considering how dreadful the stories were. The most painful aspect of the production was that Popeye abandoned his trademark Spinach for bowls of Wheatena hot cereal to muster his strength. After a short six month run, the show disappeared from the airways.
Undaunted, Wheatena made a second attempt at broadcasting Popeye on another network -- CBS from August 31, 1936 to February 26, 1937 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7:15pm. Floyd Buckley replaced Detmar Poppen to voice Popeye in 78 episodes. Otherwise the cast was unchanged. Once again, reference to spinach was conspicuously absent. Popeye's familiar theme song was altered to say: "Wheatena's me diet, I ax ya to try it, I'm Popeye the Sailor man! Toot. Toot."
Three ill-fated attempts were made to broadcast a Popeye radio program in the 30s. Wheatena hot cereal sponsored the show on September 10, 1935 thru March 27, 1936. Roughly 75 episodes aired on the NBC Red Network on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights at 7:15pm. Wheatena reportedly paid King Features $1,200 per week for the rights to the sailor. The show followed Amos & Andy, the most listened to program in radio history. Despite this desirable lead-in, Popeye failed to capture an adequate audience.
Detmar Poppen, a Broadway veteran, played Popeye. This was the producer's first error in judgment. Poppen's impression of the squint-eyed sailor was only vaguely reminiscent of the familiar cartoon voices of Billy Costello or Jack Mercer who preceded him. Olive Lamoy as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy were equally inept at recreating their screen counterparts. Child actor Jimmy Donnelly rounded out the cast as Matey the Newsboy, an annoying non-Segar character who filled in as a poor substitute for Swee'pea (whose limited vocabulary tended not to work well on radio). One redeeming quality of the show was the music of Victor Erwin and his Cartoonland Band, whose orchestra also performed on the Fleischer cartoons.
Only a handful of these shows have survived. Perhaps this is merciful considering how dreadful the stories were. The most painful aspect of the production was that Popeye abandoned his trademark Spinach for bowls of Wheatena hot cereal to muster his strength. After a short six month run, the show disappeared from the airways.
Undaunted, Wheatena made a second attempt at broadcasting Popeye on another network -- CBS from August 31, 1936 to February 26, 1937 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7:15pm. Floyd Buckley replaced Detmar Poppen to voice Popeye in 78 episodes. Otherwise the cast was unchanged. Once again, reference to spinach was conspicuously absent. Popeye's familiar theme song was altered to say: "Wheatena's me diet, I ax ya to try it, I'm Popeye the Sailor man! Toot. Toot."