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I remember her primarily as Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie and the series Faerie Tale Theatre. She was amazing as an actress with a very unique look. Seeing he

I remember her primarily as Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie and the series Faerie Tale Theatre. She was amazing as an actress with a very unique look. Seeing her as a metal and physical wreck in more recent years was heartbreaking. I will miss her, but am glad she is no longer suffering.

knodi123 2y ago
> Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie I recently (randomly!) listened to the "What Went Wrong" podcast episode about Popeye. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id1512847066?i=1000498061719 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id15128470... It was _hilarious_ . But the one thing that went perfectly was the casting of Shelley Duvall. The podcasters said "If you gave god a bunch of popeye cartoons and told him to make a real human version of Olive Oyl, you'd get Shelley Duvall." And Shelley herself said that she grew up being called Olive Oyl, and hated it because of all that it implied- but now that it got her cast in a big budget movie, she said the comparison doesn't hurt anymore!
- boppo1 2y ago
  What did it imply? Unfamiliar.
  - knodi123 2y ago
    Skinny, tall, tiny breasts, washboard ass, annoying voice. Just generally not the physical characteristics of a woman who wants to be seen as sexy.
    - JohnFen 2y ago
      And yet, TMI here, I always found Shelley Duvall to be sexy. There's a lid for every pot.
      - bitwize 2y ago
        She was unconventionally beautiful, but she really had a certain something. The modern girl I want to compare her to is Aubrey Plaza for some reason. Again, that makes her casting as Olive perfect. It helps the audience see in Olive what Popeye and Bluto see in her.
ianbicking 2y ago
I really liked the Popeye movie; I rewatched it recently and still like it. It gets a lot of things wrong, but it gets other things really right. Among them Shelley Duvall.
deciduously 2y ago
For me Time Bandits comes to mind first, her little sketches with Michael Palin never get old.
dhosek 2y ago
Popeye was the first thing I saw her in, and after that, I could never unsee her as Olive Oyl. Personally, I think that movie is absolutely wonderful (especially the “Everything Is Food” number, but all the songs are great). For whatever reason, the Fairy Tale Theatre episodes are hard to come by. They’re not on any streaming service although there have been DVD releases. The first episode featured Robin Williams as the frog prince with Eric Idle directing. It was only in the last couple years that I learned that not only is she not Robert Duvall’s daughter,¹ they aren’t related. ⸻ 1. Actually, it turns out she is Robert Duvall’s daughter, just not that Robert Duvall.
- christkv 2y ago
  Shh don't tell anyone https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog+Prince.avi https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog...
- roydivision 2y ago
  She was SO Olive Oyl that it's like somehow the cartoons were retro-fitted to her look.

knodi123 2y ago

> Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie I recently (randomly!) listened to the "What Went Wrong" podcast episode about Popeye. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id1512847066?i=1000498061719 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id15128470... It was _hilarious_ . But the one thing that went perfectly was the casting of Shelley Duvall. The podcasters said "If you gave god a bunch of popeye cartoons and told him to make a real human version of Olive Oyl, you'd get Shelley Duvall." And Shelley herself said that she grew up being called Olive Oyl, and hated it because of all that it implied- but now that it got her cast in a big budget movie, she said the comparison doesn't hurt anymore!

boppo1 2y ago
What did it imply? Unfamiliar.
- knodi123 2y ago
  Skinny, tall, tiny breasts, washboard ass, annoying voice. Just generally not the physical characteristics of a woman who wants to be seen as sexy.
  - JohnFen 2y ago
    And yet, TMI here, I always found Shelley Duvall to be sexy. There's a lid for every pot.
    - bitwize 2y ago
      She was unconventionally beautiful, but she really had a certain something. The modern girl I want to compare her to is Aubrey Plaza for some reason. Again, that makes her casting as Olive perfect. It helps the audience see in Olive what Popeye and Bluto see in her.

ianbicking 2y ago

I really liked the Popeye movie; I rewatched it recently and still like it. It gets a lot of things wrong, but it gets other things really right. Among them Shelley Duvall.

deciduously 2y ago

For me Time Bandits comes to mind first, her little sketches with Michael Palin never get old.

dhosek 2y ago

Popeye was the first thing I saw her in, and after that, I could never unsee her as Olive Oyl. Personally, I think that movie is absolutely wonderful (especially the “Everything Is Food” number, but all the songs are great). For whatever reason, the Fairy Tale Theatre episodes are hard to come by. They’re not on any streaming service although there have been DVD releases. The first episode featured Robin Williams as the frog prince with Eric Idle directing. It was only in the last couple years that I learned that not only is she not Robert Duvall’s daughter,¹ they aren’t related. ⸻ 1. Actually, it turns out she is Robert Duvall’s daughter, just not that Robert Duvall.

christkv 2y ago
Shh don't tell anyone https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog+Prince.avi https://archive.org/details/fgtd5r/01+-+The+Tale+of+the+Frog...
roydivision 2y ago
She was SO Olive Oyl that it's like somehow the cartoons were retro-fitted to her look.