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In the meantime, home video rights to the Associated Artists Productions library were transferred from CBS/Fox Video to MGM/UA Home Video in 1986, and eventually to Warner Home Video in 1999. In 2006, Warner Home Video announced it would release all of the Popeye cartoons produced for theatrical release between 1933 and 1957 on DVD, restored ...
He then directed the musical comedy Popeye (1980) which was a financial success but received a mixed reception. The films which followed become more sporadic with a career fluctuations. Roger Ebert stated of Altman's career that he "insisted on expressing a distinct personal vision that made him the hottest director of the 1970s but not the ...
Popeye, a gruff but good-hearted sailor, arrives at the small coastal town of Sweethaven while searching for his missing father. He rents a room at the Oyl family's boarding house, where the Oyls plan to have their daughter, Olive, become engaged to Captain Bluto, a powerful, perpetually angry bully who manages the town in the name of the mysterious Commodore.
Conceived while he was a student at Wesleyan University, the show made it to Broadway in 2008 (with Miranda playing the lead role), won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and ran for 1,185 ...
Nicknamed “Texas Twiggy” and called the “female Buster Keaton,” actress Shelley Duvall, who died July 11 at age 75, entered the Hollywood scene in the 1970s, making iconic films such as ...
Art Thief Musical! Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (animated direct-to-video) Bride and Prejudice; A Christmas Carol (television film) De-Lovely; Home on the Range (animated) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (animated) The Lion King 1½ (animated) The Magical Gathering (TV special) [1] Open House; The Phantom of the Opera; The ...
Mercer liked to imitate voices, [2] including one close call when he mimicked the high-pitched and loud voice of the wife of one of the Fleischers after he mistakenly thought she had left the studio. When William Costello, the original cartoon voice of Popeye (1933–1935), became difficult to work with, he was dismissed. Mercer had begun ...
However, Costello wasn't prepared to give up the fame associated with voicing Popeye and, billed as "The Original Voice of Popeye", he voiced the character on a European stage tour and made several recordings for the Columbia, Decca, and Rex labels, including "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" (1935), "Blow the Man Down" (1935), "Tiger Rag" (1936 ...