Biografie

Best known as the voices of "Betty Boop" and "Olive Oyl".

She also provided Popeye's voice, in one Popeye, the Sailor cartoon, titled Shape Ahoy (1945) because 'Jack Mercer (I)' at the time, was serving in the military during World War II.

She not only provided the voice of Olive Oyl in "Popeye, the Sailor" cartoons, but the toddler Swee' Pea as well. She based Olive Oyl's fearful and quivery voice on comedic actress Zasu Pitts.

Had a withered arm; in her on-camera film appearances, she was usually photographed with elbows bent and both hands at her waist or holding an object in the crook of her elbow to make it less obvious that one arm was shorter and smaller than the other.

Best known in film as the matchmaking Mrs. Strakosh, one of Barbra Streisand's card-playing neighbors, in Funny Girl (1968).