She was a DAMN good actress period. Her dedication is incredible. The Shining still blows me away every time I watch it, she went through hell making that movie. Screaming, crying, running carrying a little boy, every day for a year, and the performer she gives is flawless
Shelly Duvall is so utterly adorable in this film, mostly due to her ability to act, using her entire body. Her facial expressions are priceless. Did someone say she was ugly? She's not conventionally beautiful. But she's FAR from ugly.
For an actor to play a cartoon character they could have never picked someone better than Shelley Duvall to play olive oil she is the closest thing to looking like the true cartoon character out of anyone who ever played a cartoon character
Isn't it funny how many people think she's ugly (mostly I think because she's filmed unflatteringly in The Shining) -- but yeah, I agree, she's adorable.
Always had a crush on Shelley, she was an inspired choice for Olive Oyle. Who else could play the part?Like Wis Dom I don't much care for the perfect people of Hollywood, it's the imperfections that make someone interesting!
Olive Oyl as depicted in the original stories was very feisty and strongwilled, but also rather innocent...a traditional girl in a traditional small town. Yes, the song has a lot of sexual innuendo in it, but Olive herself would not be aware of the innuendo...what she is referring to when she says that Bluto is large is simply his immense physical size and strength. Others, however, can find humour in the fact that the lyric has a double meaning. This was a great movie.
At first I wasn't a big fan of this movie, but now I absolutely adore it. They chose the right lady for Olive Oyl. She hit it spot on. Who'd a thunk, there was an actual woman who could play Olive Oyl. Go Duvall.
My grandpa passed not too long ago. He was from Puerto Rico and couldn't really speak a lot of English, but Popeye was his favorite cartoon and movie. Rest in Heavenly peace, Shelley Duvall. My only Olive Oyl. ❤ I know he's up in heaven with you and Robin now.
Rest in peace Shelley Duvall. I love this song so much and have played it so much over the years. It’s just so funny how Olive has nothing nice to say except he’s large lol.
Shelley Duvall use to make me laugh when she played Olive Oyl I just love her Method acting and she’s so good at it. It’s too bad she never went further on and I my heart goes out to her and her family who is now taking care of her. Plus she’s a Cancer like me I wish I had interviewed her instead of Dr Phil because I think her and I could relate. I know what it’s like to be tormented by some people who didn’t like me and had to fight both physically and verbally. I have went through depression time and time again because it’s hard for me sometimes to get things off my chest and to talk to someone when half of the time it isn’t a soul to talk to. Shelley you are a legend and I hope you are still getting the help your getting. I can tell you have a family that loves you and I’m pretty sure some fans would still recognize you and still respect you as the sweet kind person you are
Shelly Duvall was the star of this movie, perhaps her greatest (if not most well known) role. This scene has lingered in my mind for forty years. Fully realizing a, literally, two dimensional character while preserving the initial characterization is no mean feat. See also Matthew Lillard as Shaggy.
This has got me giggling to no end. I haven't seen this movie for 20+ years and I'm just loving watching clips from it. Harry Nilsson (the composer) is a genius!
Your minds make the connection because of the time period you live in and dick jokes. The sailors might of made the connection and laughed at her but these girls, especially in the time period the movie takes place in and to a lesser extent the time period it was made in, are not laughing with dirty minds. They're laughing because the only good thing she can think of about him is being a big strong man. Character wise these women are probably all naive as hell about sex.
Apparently, you aren't a student of history. Ever hear of the Victorian Age? Heck, for that matter, there is written history, confirming that Roman women had dirty minds. but, you are correct about their reason for laughing. Other than that, you are dead wrong.
I'm talking about depression era America with heavy Christian influences, even more so within the world of Popeye where the values and beliefs of the writer and creator are injected directly on top of the social climate of the time. Your references to the Victorian era and Rome are completely and utterly irrelevant to the setting.
It's funny you mention it. I've loved this scene and shared it with countless friends and not once did I ever think she was singing about anything but how statuesque he was. It's a shame our society immediately jumps to the other conclusion.
***** you do know the Marx brothers where really popular doing the depression area don't you and so where the three stooges both of them where well know for there adult humor the Marx brothers more so then the stooges
My mom used to get called Olive Oyl at work because she used to wear boots and roll down her socks. One year for Christmas, she made dolls for me and my older sister and they both looked like Olive Oyl. I took such good care of mine while my sister kicked hers, tore out it’s eyes, yelled at it, ignored it, and then when I took it away and fixed it up and hid it she cried for months thinking she had lost it. I waited for fifteen years to give it back to her, on Christmas. She didn’t recognize it at first. Then when she realized what it was she cried again.
It was good that you rescued your Mom’s lovingly created doll from eventual destruction and that you returned it to your sister so she could treasure it forever.
There may be no actress in history who was better at inhabiting a role. Give her a character, and she became it, perhaps to her personal detriment, but always to the benefit of her audience. RIP.
Obviously a different cut than the DVD release. The outdoor cutaway shots of Bluto at the very beginning of the scene when he's choosing just the right flower in flower pots and tossing the ones he doesn't like aren't present here. Neither is Olive's "Oh boy" almost in disgust at the girls' harmonizing and the "She can have him" because of the cutting away to Bluto. (Is this the European cut?) The soundtrack is in mono too. Sounds more natural with the other girls' voices only slightly to the background, all of the voices more even with the music, more natural like they're really indoors instead of all of the voices being almost awkwardly right out front and more prominent. Kind of the same case as The Rocky Horror Picture Show stereo soundtrack, as present on the album release, being added to the film years later. I'm intrigued. It might be my nostalgia for "the way things used to be" when I was a kid, but I think it's time for my usual later in life VHS purchase to be able to see and hear a movie in two distinctly different ways. ...and I just bought the oldest copy I could find from ebay.
I had a HUGE crush on Shelly in the 70's. When she was a hot hippie chick. Check out "Brewster McCloud". I also liked Sissy Spacek. Who had body of an athletic goddess in Badlands. You have to watch these old actresses in their hey-day to understand why they were so popular. I love the eccentric but cute faces Shelly and Sissy had. I'm not attracted to the boring Hollywood standard of beauty, I like identity. And women in the 70's were more artistic and creative than they are now.
Shelly Duvall sure does look like Olive Oyl...I know someone who is my sister's age (and was my dance teacher in 2010-2011), and she bears an uncanny resemblance to Olive Oyl, too.
this is likely the best performance of Shelley Duvall in all her career (after the shining), she matches to perfection with the character, it's as if Olive Oil, was created for be portrayed only by her, (and truly only she could do it ), thus adding more fun to this funny and classic movie.
Well, she's certainly wonderful in the much-maligned "Popeye" - her solo turn in "He Needs Me" is the high point of the film for me - but having just watched Altman's "3 Women" and "Thieves Like Us" I'd be really hard pressed to have to choose between her performances. Her performing rapport with Sissy Spacek in the former and Keith Carradine in the latter is fantastic.
RIP Duvall...thank you for childhood memories like this to always look back on. Everyone knows you more so for the Shining, but I know you more so from this. You'll be missed!
Just heard the sad news of the passing of Ms. Duvall and immediately came here to listen to this adorable song. Nobody could’ve done it better. RIP Shelly..
No, it meant the same thing then as it did now, and it was meant to be taken that way, just consider who's in the movie. . . Ever seen those live action fairy tales Shelly Duvall did, LOADED with double meaning.
She was executive producer of Faerie Tale Theater in the 80s, as well as some other children's shows. She acted in a few of the episodes. She did small parts here and there in the 90s but hasn't acted since the early 2000s.
She was Olive Oyl , she brought that character to life and did a damn good job at it.
She was a DAMN good actress period. Her dedication is incredible. The Shining still blows me away every time I watch it, she went through hell making that movie. Screaming, crying, running carrying a little boy, every day for a year, and the performer she gives is flawless
My family calls me Olive Oly, they told me because how thin I was and beautiful but sometimes I look like her.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@@shaunamunoz-cacho6329 that's sweet of your family to say 😊
She was very convincing as a terrified and tormented woman in The Shining. I really can't imagine anyone doing a better job. @@2003BMW325i
Now may she rest in peace
Shelly Duvall is so utterly adorable in this film, mostly due to her ability to act, using her entire body. Her facial expressions are priceless. Did someone say she was ugly? She's not conventionally beautiful. But she's FAR from ugly.
Shelly Duvall is the most beautiful woman who ever lived
She’s actually very good looking.
100%
She has this special, renaissence looking face. Gorgeous in a very "old" way.
Yeah she’s very unique looking and it works for her
For an actor to play a cartoon character they could have never picked someone better than Shelley Duvall to play olive oil she is the closest thing to looking like the true cartoon character out of anyone who ever played a cartoon character
Jim Carrey as The Mask.
Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers.
Robin made a pretty good likeness for Popeye as well, matey.
She made Olive Oyl into such a charming character that the man who drew the original Popeye cartoon would have been proud.
Rest in Peace 😢 she was special
Isn't it funny how many people think she's ugly (mostly I think because she's filmed unflatteringly in The Shining) -- but yeah, I agree, she's adorable.
Vortigern99 I always thought she looked like a model! Her face is very unique! I love her
Definitely adorable
Vortigern99 in the shining she was pretty tho too
She was sexy in the shining too
Vortigern99 I thought she was hot in The Shining
She was born for the role. I can't believe they were considering other actresses first.
I don't often cry when an actor dies, but I'm crying today. RIP Shelley Duvall. Thank you for bringing your gifts into the world.
Amen 🙏
RIP Shelly Duvall (1949-2024)
Rest in Peace, Shelley Duvall, age 75.
Part of the humour is that she's having a really hard time finding much of anything else positive to say about him, other than that he's "
large"....
Well she makes it clear to people that she doesn’t love him.
And the reason she's running away lol
He’s got money and respect
As she's packing her bags 😂
@@robtank9900 That's true!
I heard that Shelly Duvall at first turned down the role for this film, because she was made fun of by people in at school who called her Olive Oyl.
Well, poo poo on them.
Always had a crush on Shelley, she was an inspired choice for Olive Oyle. Who else could play the part?Like Wis Dom I don't much care for the perfect people of Hollywood, it's the imperfections that make someone interesting!
Mark Newman
She was distinguishedly attractive
Yep!
She is very beautiful especially her smile!
Popeye is now reunited with Olive.
Olive Oyl as depicted in the original stories was very feisty and strongwilled, but also rather innocent...a traditional girl in a traditional small town. Yes, the song has a lot of sexual innuendo in it, but Olive herself would not be aware of the innuendo...what she is referring to when she says that Bluto is large is simply his immense physical size and strength. Others, however, can find humour in the fact that the lyric has a double meaning. This was a great movie.
What is wrong with you
@@kristinscott8991😅
well thanks for explaining that, I am sure nobody else understood what it was about.
I watched this movie a million times when I was a kid, only Shelley Duvall could play Olive Oyl.
That avatar is that weird "limbo" muppet, isn't it?
@@Nonamearisto yes
And you were larger than life in every role you played.
RIP icon!
She stole every scene she was in. Shelly kept your attention. She always seemed so fragile and vulnerable. Rest in peace.
Shelley Duvall is so funny.
Andrew Wilson she sucks. Especially In the shining
+Reck Ssel Screw you. She was great in both The Shining and this movie.
@@miapiare she was the best you try fucking doing 127 retakes
Reck Ssel you’re a dim wit
Rip though 😢
Where`s the part, "And he`s mine!" "YOU CAN HAVE HIM!!!" Funniest part of the whole song, to this day!!!
Yeah, where's the rest of the song?
RIP to a damn fine actress and the only person that could ever be Olive Oyl
So sad what happened to both Shelly and Robin 💔😢
May these two Rest In Peace.
@@christineking8183 Shelley is still alive
Yeah she still is. She retired in 2002. It’s only robin williams who died already. It’s just that she doesn’t do acting 🎭 anymore.
Yes very 😢 not fair
@@ManuelGuzman067 what do you mean? That Robin Williams died? Well it happened to him. But Shelley Duvall is still alive.
She sang this perfectly!!
What does she mean by "large"? What's large Olive? Inquiring minds want to know.
You know I always thought it was kind of sweet when he picked up Olives mom and gladly said “mother!”
At first I wasn't a big fan of this movie, but now I absolutely adore it. They chose the right lady for Olive Oyl.
She hit it spot on. Who'd a thunk, there was an actual woman who could play Olive Oyl. Go Duvall.
My grandpa passed not too long ago. He was from Puerto Rico and couldn't really speak a lot of English, but Popeye was his favorite cartoon and movie. Rest in Heavenly peace, Shelley Duvall. My only Olive Oyl. ❤ I know he's up in heaven with you and Robin now.
Rest in peace Shelley Duvall. I love this song so much and have played it so much over the years. It’s just so funny how Olive has nothing nice to say except he’s large lol.
Rip Shelley Duvall. You will always be treasured. ❤️
0:14 those shoes are adorbs
RIP LEGEND
RIP Shelley Duvall. I always loved this part of Popeye
RIP Shelly Duvall 1949-2024
Who all came here for Shelley Duvall’s passing? I found out when I opened my Twitter page to is morning.
RIP Shelley Duvall
Rest in Peace Shelley Duvall 😢
First time i ever saw a movie that looked exactly like the cartoon. Shelly was perfect
Rest in peace Shelley.✝️🙏🏼🦋❤️
Rest in peace Shelly
Rip you wonderful lady
Shelley Duvall use to make me laugh when she played Olive Oyl I just love her Method acting and she’s so good at it. It’s too bad she never went further on and I my heart goes out to her and her family who is now taking care of her. Plus she’s a Cancer like me I wish I had interviewed her instead of Dr Phil because I think her and I could relate. I know what it’s like to be tormented by some people who didn’t like me and had to fight both physically and verbally. I have went through depression time and time again because it’s hard for me sometimes to get things off my chest and to talk to someone when half of the time it isn’t a soul to talk to. Shelley you are a legend and I hope you are still getting the help your getting. I can tell you have a family that loves you and I’m pretty sure some fans would still recognize you and still respect you as the sweet kind person you are
Shelly Duvall was the star of this movie, perhaps her greatest (if not most well known) role. This scene has lingered in my mind for forty years.
Fully realizing a, literally, two dimensional character while preserving the initial characterization is no mean feat.
See also Matthew Lillard as Shaggy.
And John Goodman as Fred Flintstone.
Shelley Duvall was born to play Olive Oyl!
I remember saying just that when we saw the movie. The song written by Harry Nilsson - brilliant!
This has got me giggling to no end. I haven't seen this movie for 20+ years and I'm just loving watching clips from it. Harry Nilsson (the composer) is a genius!
R.I.P Shelly
RIP Shelley. It was a hard life. 🥺💚
RIP Shelly Duvall
R.I.P. Shelley Duvall 🙏🏽
RIP beautiful Shelley, you deserved better 💔
RIP, Shelley Duvall.
the perfect Olive Oyl? I think so
Rip Shelley Duvall you will never be forgotten 🙏
Your minds make the connection because of the time period you live in and dick jokes. The sailors might of made the connection and laughed at her but these girls, especially in the time period the movie takes place in and to a lesser extent the time period it was made in, are not laughing with dirty minds. They're laughing because the only good thing she can think of about him is being a big strong man.
Character wise these women are probably all naive as hell about sex.
Apparently, you aren't a student of history. Ever hear of the Victorian Age? Heck, for that matter, there is written history, confirming that Roman women had dirty minds.
but, you are correct about their reason for laughing. Other than that, you are dead wrong.
I'm talking about depression era America with heavy Christian influences, even more so within the world of Popeye where the values and beliefs of the writer and creator are injected directly on top of the social climate of the time. Your references to the Victorian era and Rome are completely and utterly irrelevant to the setting.
It's funny you mention it. I've loved this scene and shared it with countless friends and not once did I ever think she was singing about anything but how statuesque he was. It's a shame our society immediately jumps to the other conclusion.
*****
you do know the Marx brothers where really popular doing the depression area don't you and so where the three stooges both of them where well know for there adult humor the Marx brothers more so then the stooges
***** and yes they also had a huge female fan base
I need to go back and watch this movie again. Rest in peace Shelley.😢
When you tryna hit the word count
My mom used to get called Olive Oyl at work because she used to wear boots and roll down her socks. One year for Christmas, she made dolls for me and my older sister and they both looked like Olive Oyl. I took such good care of mine while my sister kicked hers, tore out it’s eyes, yelled at it, ignored it, and then when I took it away and fixed it up and hid it she cried for months thinking she had lost it. I waited for fifteen years to give it back to her, on Christmas. She didn’t recognize it at first. Then when she realized what it was she cried again.
Haha! I like this story!! I hope ur still good friends as sisters
@@holzerisms we are, we're actually a lot closer now then we were when we were younger.
Great story!
It was good that you rescued your Mom’s lovingly created doll from eventual destruction and that you returned it to your sister so she could treasure it forever.
In this role, Shelley Duvall is like Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark: born to be Olive Oyl.
RIP Queen
R.I.P. Shelley Duvall 🙏
R.I.P Robin Williams 🙏
R.I.P. Paul L Smith 🙏
Watched this 30 years ago. Loved it then, love it now!!!
🙏🏾 RIP Shelly & Robin.😢
RIP, Shelly 😢you were Olive!
How this song came into existence is just a case that magic is real. So funny and just perfect.
Adios shelly Duvall we'll all missed you 💕💕🌹🌹🌹⚘️⚘️⚘️🕊🕊
There may be no actress in history who was better at inhabiting a role. Give her a character, and she became it, perhaps to her personal detriment, but always to the benefit of her audience. RIP.
Obviously a different cut than the DVD release. The outdoor cutaway shots of Bluto at the very beginning of the scene when he's choosing just the right flower in flower pots and tossing the ones he doesn't like aren't present here. Neither is Olive's "Oh boy" almost in disgust at the girls' harmonizing and the "She can have him" because of the cutting away to Bluto. (Is this the European cut?) The soundtrack is in mono too. Sounds more natural with the other girls' voices only slightly to the background, all of the voices more even with the music, more natural like they're really indoors instead of all of the voices being almost awkwardly right out front and more prominent. Kind of the same case as The Rocky Horror Picture Show stereo soundtrack, as present on the album release, being added to the film years later. I'm intrigued. It might be my nostalgia for "the way things used to be" when I was a kid, but I think it's time for my usual later in life VHS purchase to be able to see and hear a movie in two distinctly different ways. ...and I just bought the oldest copy I could find from ebay.
R.I.P to Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, Robin Williams as Popeye, Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy and Paul L. Smith as Bluto.
R.I.P. Ms. Duvall. You were amazing!
R.I.P. Shelly Duvall. ❤🌹🙏🏽🕯
I love this movie so much! No one was more perfect for this role than her! So sorry to hear of her passing - RIP!
I like when she says he is tall and large
RIP Shelley
I had a HUGE crush on Shelly in the 70's. When she was a hot hippie chick. Check out "Brewster McCloud". I also liked Sissy Spacek. Who had body of an athletic goddess in Badlands. You have to watch these old actresses in their hey-day to understand why they were so popular. I love the eccentric but cute faces Shelly and Sissy had. I'm not attracted to the boring Hollywood standard of beauty, I like identity. And women in the 70's were more artistic and creative than they are now.
***** In the 80's, yeah. I was talking about the 70's. A lot of people don't know about her 70's work.
Have you ever seen "3 Women"? That had both Sissy and Shelley in it. :D
Kelaiah01 I have,and I love it! Thanks!
I'm 23 And I think she's hot
Well, back then she was
In Brewster McCloud, she was so awesomely cool she stopped me in my tracks!
Shelly Duvall was selectively bred to play this role
20 people are not large
I’ve never seen such perfect casting as Shelly Duvall as Olive Oil
RIP. I 1st heard this song 35+yrs ago and this song has regularly popped in my head❤
Shelly Duvall sure does look like Olive Oyl...I know someone who is my sister's age (and was my dance teacher in 2010-2011), and she bears an uncanny resemblance to Olive Oyl, too.
guys, this is the only scene I've seen of this movie. Is she singing about Bluto? If so, why'd she leave the house while he was downstairs?
She was absolutely perfect in this movie!!! RIP
this is likely the best performance of Shelley Duvall in all her career (after the shining), she matches to perfection with the character, it's as if Olive Oil, was created for be portrayed only by her, (and truly only she could do it ), thus adding more fun to this funny and classic movie.
Well, she's certainly wonderful in the much-maligned "Popeye" - her solo turn in "He Needs Me" is the high point of the film for me - but having just watched Altman's "3 Women" and "Thieves Like Us" I'd be really hard pressed to have to choose between her performances. Her performing rapport with Sissy Spacek in the former and Keith Carradine in the latter is fantastic.
They could've done better with Wimpy..Bluto looks like Bluto(Brutus) though.🤔
I don't like musicals and I never thought of Popeye ever being one but I will always love this movie and sing along with all the songs.
Shelley Duvall IS Olive Oyl. No other actress can portray Olive Oyl to the Tee!
R.I.P. Queen!
Shelley Duvall was born to play Olive Oyl. She killed it. RIP!!!!
Thank you for being part of my childhood era, Shelley. Rest peacefully, Olive.
I just loved how Olive ran out of adjectives to describe Bluto so quickly.
RIP Duvall...thank you for childhood memories like this to always look back on. Everyone knows you more so for the Shining, but I know you more so from this. You'll be missed!
such an angel. she will be missed. i'll tell my grandchildren about her im devastated
Just heard the sad news of the passing of Ms. Duvall and immediately came here to listen to this adorable song. Nobody could’ve done it better. RIP Shelly..
RIP Shelley Duvall.
I have to squeeze him each night to keep him warm HAHAHA
She was absolutely perfect as Olive. I used to love this movie!
God bless you, Shelly. May you be at peace. Say hi to Robin for me.
Back then, Shelley could get it. I might be the only dude who thinks that
Rip Shelley 🕊️
RIP Shelley. A true talent.
Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and sing your DISTRACTING ME !!!!
Miss you Shelley!
No, it meant the same thing then as it did now, and it was meant to be taken that way, just consider who's in the movie. . . Ever seen those live action fairy tales Shelly Duvall did, LOADED with double meaning.
She was executive producer of Faerie Tale Theater in the 80s, as well as some other children's shows. She acted in a few of the episodes. She did small parts here and there in the 90s but hasn't acted since the early 2000s.
The only reason they won’t make this movie remake is because they will never find a better actress than Shelly Duvall!…. ❤
One of the great moments from a sadly underrated film