‘Oh, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!’ Most people know Popeye as a tough, spinach-eating sailor, a cartoon character created by American ... His girlfriend is the gangly, uncoordinated Olive Oyl, for whose ...
Should you think Olive Oyl’s sweetie is a sailor who “fights to the finich/’cause I eats my spinach,” think again. Popeye wouldn’t appear in the comic pages for another four years, when the cartoonist ...
The comic strip adaptation Popeye hit theaters in December 1980. Directed by Robert Altman, it starred Robin Williams as the iconic spinach-eating titular hero and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.