
Birthday:
05-21-1903
Deathday:
08-26-1992 (89 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
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Taking the Blame
Sound Director
event1935 star_border 4.9
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Betty brings home a cat as a playmate for her pet puppy, Pudgy. The cat manages to get Pudgy blamed for all his misbehaviour.
All's Fair at the Fair
Music
event1938 star_border 6.5
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A couple goes to the World's Fair.
Play Safe
Music
event1936 star_border 6.7
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A young boy obsessed with trains sneaks out to play with the real trains that run just a few feet from the fence around his house. When he falls off of one and is knocked unconscious, he has a dream.
It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
Music
event1944
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In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells Lulu the story of The Grasshopper and The Ant. Seeing how the grasshopper wasted his money, and could count on no help from the ant, Lulu promises her father that he won't waste her money any more. But the temptation of the local candy store grows too strong, and Lulu buys all of the sweets that she can get hold of in order to "save up for the winter."
Educated Fish
Music
event1937 star_border 5.6
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A small fish doesn’t pay attention in school, and ends up getting caught on a hook. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2013.
I Eats My Spinach
Music
event1933 star_border 7.2
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Popeye and Olive Oyl visit a rodeo.
Snubbed by a Snob
Music
event1940 star_border 5
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A young horse says hi to little donkey Spunky. But the horse's mother pulls him away, saying we don't associate with that kind. Spunky makes a few more overtures, and eventually they set off on a chase, running across a bull from time to time. The horse stops to eat a lot of apples and drink far too much water; this leaves him too bloated to move much at all. The two continue to anger the bull, which gives chase; Spunky saves the colt, and they all live in harmony.
Gabby Goes Fishing
Music
event1941 star_border 6.8
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Gabby teaches a young boy how to fish, even though the boy was doing much better without him.
Swing Cleaning
Music
event1941 star_border 7.8
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Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.
Two for the Zoo
Music
event1941 star_border 7
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Gabby is forced to take care of a strange animal called a Kango.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Music Director
event1937 star_border 7.8
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Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Music
event1936 star_border 6.6
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Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks by Sindbad.
Eggs Don't Bounce
Music
event1944
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Lulu fears getting into trouble after accidentally breaking the eggs she was told to get on her way home.
Lulu at the Zoo
Music
event1944
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Little Lulu goes on a tour of the zoo, but she gets into trouble by feeding the animals, which is against the rules!
Billion Dollar Limited
Music
event1942 star_border 7
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Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!
Hullaba-Lulu
Music
event1944
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In order to get into the circus, Lulu disguises herself as "the press" after giving her ticket away. Once inside, Lulu manages to wreck every performance by yelling "Faker!" She ends up saving the ringmaster from a ferocious lion.
Showdown
Music
event1942 star_border 6.8
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Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.
The Arctic Giant
Music
event1942 star_border 7.1
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A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!
Terror on the Midway
Music
event1942 star_border 6.8
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When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.
Japoteurs
Music
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
The Bulleteers
Music
event1942 star_border 6.7
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Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!
The Magnetic Telescope
Music
event1942 star_border 7.2
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When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.
The Mechanical Monsters
Music
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.
Destruction Inc.
Music
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!
Eleventh Hour
Music
event1942 star_border 6
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Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.
Jungle Drums
Music
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.
The Mummy Strikes
Music
event1943 star_border 6.9
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Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman.
Electric Earthquake
Music
event1942 star_border 6.8
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A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!
Volcano
Music
event1942 star_border 7.2
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Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.
Lulu in Hollywood
Music
event1944
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A movie director discovers Lulu and decides to put her in pictures.
The Underground World
Music
event1943 star_border 6.8
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Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At the Earth's Core".
I'm Just Curious
Music
event1944
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For misbehaving, Little Lulu gets a spanking from Daddy with the book "Art of Self Defense" in her pants. In the shower, after being sent to her room, Lulu starts to sing "I'm Just Curious." Later Lulu sneaks out and goes after a chicken hawk who, thinking that he's a stork, tries to get Lulu's chickens from her family's henhouse.
Beau Ties
Music
event1945
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Lulu is angry when she sees her boyfriend Fatso out with another girl. To make it up to Lulu, Fatso promises to marry Lulu when they grow up. However, while carving a love message into a tall tree, Fatso falls out of it and onto a small sapling. He passes out, and dreams of a hellish married life with Lulu, her dog, and their large family of Lulu look-alike daughters.
Secret Agent
Music
event1943 star_border 6.8
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A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.
Lulu's Birthday Party
Music
event1944
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Little Lulu fantasizes about a birthday party in a candy land.
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 7.1
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At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
An Elephant Never Forgets
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 4
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A collection of animals goes to school; their teacher, a goose, asks them several questions, during which time an ape, sitting behind an elephant, keeps tormenting the elephant. The teacher leaves the room, putting a turtle in charge. While she's gone, things go fine for a while, but the ape starts an all-out book tossing brawl. As the teacher returns, everyone suddenly stops, and although the room is a shambles, she congratulates them on behaving and dismisses them for the day.
Peeping Penguins
Music
event1937 star_border 5.2
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Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that "curiosity killed the cat."
Bunny Mooning
Music
event1937 star_border 6
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Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene).
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Music Director
event1934 star_border 6.2
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After drawing Betty Boop, Max Fleischer (live-action) leaves the studio; Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, releasing enough laughing gas to convulse the 'real world.'
The Cobweb Hotel
Music
event1936 star_border 6.9
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A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Music
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.
The Dance Contest
Music
event1934 star_border 6.3
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Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Music Arranger
event1936 star_border 7.7
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Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength.
Hold It!
Original Music Composer
event1938 star_border 4
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When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.
Superman
Original Music Composer
event1941 star_border 6.9
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After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.
It's the Natural Thing to Do
Music
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Popeye's fan club sends a telegram asking them to tone down the violence and act civilized. So everyone dresses up and acts formal - for a while, at least.
Hello How Am I
Music
event1939 star_border 5.2
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Olive invites Popeye over for a hamburger dinner. His roommate Wimpy hears this and disguises himself as Popeye in order to be who enjoys the feast.
Never Sock a Baby
Music
event1939 star_border 6.5
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Popeye spanks Swee'Pea and sends him to bed without supper. He wrestles with his conscience over this, while Swee'Pea packs a bundle and runs away from home.
The Musical Doctor
Original Music Composer
event1932
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Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 6.2
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Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Original Music Composer
event1939 star_border 7.5
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Olive Oyl's screenplay for an Aladdin movie comes to life and Popeye battles for control of a genie in this, the last of the three Popeye color films.
Axe Me Another
Original Music Composer
event1934 star_border 6.7
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Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest.
Baby Wants a Bottleship
Original Music Composer
event1942 star_border 6
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Olive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him, but the tyke spots Popeye's battleship, and the puny toy boat will no longer do. He climbs aboard, and there's the expected mayhem. Notable sequences include a stint on the ship's cannon's control board, with Popeye caught on the barrel, then in the gears; also, at the end, Swee'Pea hitches a ride atop a torpedo just as Olive is returning and Popeye's out cold.
Dizzy Divers
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 6.7
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Popeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on the deal, but of course, Bluto's idea of 50-50 isn't exactly fair...
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 6
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The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow.
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 6
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Popeye and Olive Oyl can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene.
Beware of Barnacle Bill
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 6.5
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To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course).
The Two-Alarm Fire
Original Music Composer
event1934 star_border 6
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Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive's huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each other than the fire. When Bluto goes to the roof to rescue Olive, the fire strands him there. Popeye eats his spinach and rescues them, but it's too late for the house.
A Dream Walking
Original Music Composer
event1934 star_border 6.7
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Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero.
Bimbo's Initiation
Original Music Composer
event1931 star_border 7
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Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?
Strong to the Finich
Original Music Composer
event1934 star_border 6
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Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the values of spinach: he feeds some to a tree, which grows huge and sprouts a variety of fruit; he feeds a hen, which lays a dozen eggs, and he eats some himself to resist a prizefighter passing by.
Shoein' Hosses
Original Music Composer
event1934 star_border 6
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Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop.
Wild Elephinks
Original Music Composer
event1933 star_border 6.8
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Popeye and Olive, adrift on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas (also a moose!). Popeye eventually battles an entire menagerie at once - after first gulping down a can of spinach, of course.
Seasin's Greetinks!
Original Music Composer
event1933 star_border 6.8
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Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye fights him. When Olive rejects Bluto again, he sends her careening on an ice floe towards a waterfall.
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 5.6
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Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive.
King of the Mardi Gras
Original Music Composer
event1935 star_border 6.5
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A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath.
Bridge Ahoy!
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 6.3
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Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to sabotage this plan - until spinach time, of course.
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 6.7
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Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him.
Never Kick a Woman
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 6.6
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Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.
Little Swee'pea
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
Hold the Wire
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house.
The Spinach Roadster
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.
I'm in the Army Now
Original Music Composer
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.
The Paneless Window Washer
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 6.7
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Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.
Hospitaliky
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 6.7
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To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.
The Twisker Pitcher
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 6.3
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Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 7.6
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'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
Lost and Foundry
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 6.2
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Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble.
I Never Changes My Altitude
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 6
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Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane.
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Original Music Composer
event1937 star_border 6.4
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Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.
The Football Toucher Downer
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event1937 star_border 6
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Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
Let's Celebrake
Original Music Composer
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.
The Ugly Dino
Music
event1940 star_border 2
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A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and they treat him meanly. When a big sabertooth tiger comes along, the baby dinosaur begs the predator to eat him. The little dino says, "Eat me, eat me....I have a face that even a mother couldn't love." The "ugly dino" ends up saving the day, and his mother showers him with kisses and hugs.
The Fulla Bluff Man
Music
event1940
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A persistent door-to-door salesman tries to sell his wares in a gated community that doesn't allow peddlers. He makes a killing selling clubs to a bunch of battling street brawlers.
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
Music
event1940
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Spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch try to sneak up on the king while he is sleeping in order to steal some riches.
Zero the Hound
Music
event1941
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A cartoon in the Animated Antics series from the Fleischer Studios about Zero the Hound.
Red Hot Mamma
Music Director
event1934 star_border 6.8
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Betty Boop, sleepless on a freezing night, builds a nice hot fire which proves too much of a good thing; in a dream she visits Hell, sings "Hell's Bells," and makes Hell freeze over!
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