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- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsCab Calloway and His Cotton Club OrchestraCab CallowayBilly MurrayBetty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
- DirectorDave FleischerRoland CrandallStarsCab CallowayBilly MurrayMae QuestelTrouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues."
- DirectorDave FleischerGrim NatwickStarsMargie HinesBilly MurrayWilliam PennellBimbo the dog is initiated into a secret society in a sadistic 'fun house'; then Betty Boop (with dog's ears) takes a hand.
- DirectorDave FleischerBernard WolfStarsCab CallowayBonnie PoeBetty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelBetty, Bimbo, and Koko sell a concoction in their medicine show which has odd side effects.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsMargie HinesBilly MurrayBetty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question... a surreal version of Bimbo.
- DirectorDave FleischerTed SearsStarsBilly MurrayBimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsThe Royal SamoansBilly MurraySatini PualoaOn a south sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelBetty thinks everything on Earth is for sale...even the planet itself.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerBilly MurrayMae QuestelWhile Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBonnie PoeBetty 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!
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsLouis ArmstrongAnn LittleLouis Armstrong and His OrchestraBetty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.
- DirectorDave FleischerWilliam HenningStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelKoko takes Betty to the museum, where she's locked in overnight and forced to sing at the skeletons' dance.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelFor customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.
- DirectorDave FleischerKoko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerWhile Popeye is searching for his Pappy he discovers an island inhabited by super strong natives.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeA 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. He manages to spoil a balance trick, then tops it with Wimpy in a chair. Olive then volunteers to be levitated; Bluto pulls her over and saws her in half. Olive escapes to a roller coaster with the boys in pursuit.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloLou FleischerWilliam PennellPopeye 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.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsBonnie PoeWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPopeye wants to join a club of fighters. But can he take their grueling initiation test... and can the club take his rough-housing?
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsThe Mills BrothersDonald MillsHarry MillsThe Mills Brothers perform two songs with the Bouncing Ball.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerThe Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsMae QuestelJack MercerA 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 machinegun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.
- DirectorDave FleischerMax FleischerStarsMax FleischerThis 1924 cartoon features an animated KoKo the Clown and a live-action Max Fleischer. Max has invented a new, electric, drawing device. He uses this to finish the drawing and then, with a somewhat maniacal grin on his face, he turns the device on poor, hapless KoKo.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerThe legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerWilliam PennellBonnie PoeIn her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.
- DirectorDave FleischerGrim NatwickStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayBetty Boop goes to Grandma's through the woods despite wolf warnings; but Bimbo follows and gives the old story a new twist.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayBetty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellBonnie PoePopeye begins his movie career by singing his theme song, demonstrating his strength at a carnival, dancing the hula with Betty Boop, pummeling Bluto, eating his spinach, and saving Olive Oyl from certain doom on the railroad tracks.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsMarie ArbuckleMelvin J. GibbyBeatrice HagenBetty Boop and Koko dabble in dentistry, complete with laughing gas.
- DirectorDave FleischerRudy ZamoraStarsAnn LittleBilly MurraySailor Bimbo (as Barnacle Bill) jumps ship with his little black book and visits his lady friend, Betty Boop (with dog's ears).
- DirectorDave FleischerShamus CulhaneStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelBetty Boop and Bimbo take a wild streetcar ride to Crazy Town, where birds swim, fish fly, and everthing else reverses normal behavior.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsDon RedmanBilly MurrayMae QuestelThe miners at Never Mine go to Betty Boop's Tavern (a jazz-jumpin' place) for lunch; back in the mine, Bimbo delves into weird realms.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye brings his magical dog, The Jeep, over to see Olive and Swee'pea, just as the tyke has escaped from his crib. The Jeep leads Popeye on a merry chase looking for Swee'pea.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeInspired by Olive's preaching of the value of brotherly love, Popeye takes a walk through the city doing good deeds.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeThat's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelGus WickePopeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelPopeye pushes a baby pram down city sidewalks and lots of noise keeps the kid awake and crying. In typically brutal manner, Popeye deals with the noise makers including a busking Harpo Marx, music school, construction site, and car horns.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellBonnie PoePopeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is a dancer and Bluto is a bandit.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeOn the outside of an office building, Popeye and Bluto duke it out as rival window washers.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloLou FleischerCharles LawrencePopeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsRoland CrandallMax FleischerMax helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerKo-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJimmie CushmanGertrude LawrenceJames MillerA little boy jumps on a real train and learns a lesson about safety.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayWilliam PennellIn the circus, Betty Boop is the lion tamer, sings title tune on the high wire, and fights off the lecherous ringmaster.
- DirectorDave FleischerShamus CulhaneStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelBetty Boop is the black queen and Bimbo the white king in a surrealistic chess game.
- DirectorDave FleischerBernard WolfStarsKate WrightBetty takes a secretarial job where the boss sexually harasses her, but not without some encouragement from Betty.
- DirectorDave FleischerGrim NatwickStarsWilliam CostelloMargie HinesBilly MurrayBetty Boop (with dog's ears) is entertainer in a restaurant for dogs; a waiter joins the floor show to the neglect of patrons.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelA traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsDavid RubinoffBonnie PoeTo the tune of Rubinoff and his orchestra, Betty Boop and feathered friends try to save a baby bird from the booze-swilling Tom Kats Club.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayWilliam PennellA sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news: they're rescued by a pirate ship...
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayThe rag and bone man passes through Betty Boop's neighborhood.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelIn a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand.
- DirectorDave FleischerAl EugsterStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayBetty Boop is queen of the Masquerade Ball where, among other antics, Bimbo and a lecherous old man vie for her affections.
- DirectorDave FleischerRoland CrandallStarsBonnie PoeThe White Rabbit materializes from a jigsaw puzzle and leads Betty Boop through the looking glass into Wonderland.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsBonnie PoeBetty, Koko, and Bimbo drive at the auto races; Betty has a cold, and her sneezes help her win.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsMargie HinesJack MercerCarl MeyerWorking in the story department of Surprise Pictures, Olive Oyl writes a script based on the story of Aladdin, casting Popeye as the thief and herself as the Princess.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsWilliam CostelloMae QuestelGus WickePoliceman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawn shop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsBonnie PoeJack MercerGus WickeOlive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns illness. The doctors are at a loss for a cure.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelPopeye and Olive Oyl go to the rodeo where Bluto performs and impresses Olive. Popeye outdoes him with some fancy riding and steer wrestling. Meanwhile, Bluto makes off with Olive, so Popeye eats his spinach to save her and to stop a bull.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye is working in the Useless Machine Works 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. When Popeye loses his spinach trying to save Olive, Swee'Pea has to eat it for him.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellMae QuestelPopeye and Olive visit a dance hall, where a contest is in progress (though judge Wimpy seems far more interested in his hamburgers than the dancers). He dances terribly. Bluto cuts in, and Popeye sulks in a corner next to a convenient bowl of spinach. Popeye dances impressively; Bluto comes back and manhandles Olive.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye 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.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way, which Popeye manages to overcome. They get to the top, and Bluto pushes Popeye off a cliff and starts skiing down with Olive. Popeye eats his spinach and gives chase.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloLou FleischerPopeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerPopeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWimpy 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.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWilliam PennellFloating on a raft, Popeye and Olive Oyl land on a jungle island and immediately battle wild elephants, gorillas, and other animals.
- DirectorDave Fleischer
- DirectorDave FleischerRudy ZamoraStarsBimboBilly Murray
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyA hillbilly sleeps; atop his bald head, flies have constructed a playground. Other flies ski-jump off his nose. A couple is having a picnic when a spider drops in; the boy runs away as the girl fends off the spider. The spider slinks home and reports the news to his wife: "No flies." A fly goes by in an airplane; he picks up a girl fly that is passing by, but when he gets fresh, she slaps him. He throws her out of the plane, and she lands in the spider's web. The spider, elated, starts playing a tune on the web like a guitar. The fly joins in, but when she shows the spider her shoulder, the spider's wife sternly orders him: "No flies."
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayWilliam PennellBimbo climbs a beanstalk to find Betty Boop enslaved by the giant.
- DirectorDave FleischerRoland CrandallStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelAfter watching a Paramount Noose Reel and a cartoon with Bimbo and Koko the Clown, the audience is thrilled when Betty Boop appears on stage to sing and imitate Fanny Brice and Maurice Chevalier.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsMae QuestelBetty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayEveryone loves the wheat cakes served by short-order cook Betty, but they have a drawback. With Bimbo and Koko, no bee is involved.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsBilly MurrayWilliam PennellMae QuestelBetty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her...which gets rowdy.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsHarriet LeeBilly MurrayMasked bandit Bimbo holds up a train carrying someone tougher...Betty Boop (with dog's ears), played by a different, deeper-voiced actress.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBonnie PoeBetty Boop hosts a Halloween party with aid from a scarecrow, but an uninvited gorilla threatens havoc.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelOn a special train, Betty's show troupe rehearses: Betty sings, Bimbo juggles, and Koko does a soft-shoe. The train itself also does tricks.
- DirectorDave FleischerGrim NatwickStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelGus WickeIn a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist.
- DirectorDave FleischerRoland CrandallStarsBonnie PoeBetty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.
- DirectorDave FleischerAl EugsterStarsAnn LittleBilly MurrayAmorous hunters Bimbo and Koko set out to bag some furs for coat-loving Betty Boop, but things don't turn out the way they'd planned...
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsBilly MurrayKate WrightDaredevil sign painters Bimbo and Koko like what they see through the window of Betty Boop's Dancing School, and stay for a lesson.
- DirectorDave FleischerWilliam HenningStarsDavid RubinoffHarry LangBonnie PoeAn action figure of Betty Boop drops in on a small toy shop; the other toys come to life and crown her their queen. But there's a big rag doll of King Kong... Based on the titular classical music.
- DirectorDave FleischerShamus CulhaneStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelBimbo's minding his baby brother, but neighbor Betty Boop (with dog's ears) wants him to come over and play.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelKoko and Bimbo visit Betty Boop's penny arcade, Bimbo to flirt with Betty; but his turn at the shooting gallery becomes a hunting trip.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsRudy ValleeAnn LittleMae QuestelSun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsLes ReisArtie DunnMae QuestelReis and Dunn (with Betty Boop) sing the Irving Berlin song with a Bouncing Ball. In a cartoon army camp, everything rises before the soldiers.
- DirectorDave FleischerShamus CulhaneStarsIrène BordoniMae QuestelIrene Bordoni sings with the Bouncing Ball; plus cartoon segments.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsEthel MermanMae QuestelIn this surrealist entry, a fisherman deals with rebellious worms; a diver flirts with a Betty Boop-like mermaid who becomes Ethel Merman, singing the title song in live-action with a Bouncing Ball.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsPinto ColvigMargie HinesJack MercerOlve brings her new goldfish onto Popeye's ship, but the fish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea. Olive convinces Popeye to go after it, but the fish wants to play and manages to avoid Popeye until both get trapped inside a jellyfish. After taking a severe pounding from the jellyfish, Popeye eats his spinach, takes on various other marine life, and returns the goldfish to its bowl. But Olive can see the fish is unhappy in the bowl, and sets it free again, which is more than Popeye can stand.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsPinto ColvigMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye'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.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsMargie HinesJack MercerTedd PierceOlive has a secret treasure map, but while she's showing it to Popeye, Bluto photographs it and gets there first.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerGus WickeTwo piano movers, a fireman and a traffic cop all drop what they're doing to join Betty Boop at the contraption-happy Grampy's eccentric party.
- DirectorDave FleischerOrestes CalpiniStarsPinto ColvigMargie HinesJack MercerOlive writes a letter to Popeye: she's through with sailors; it's cowboys for her. Popeye immediately sails off to the West, where he finds, who else, Bluto as the head of the ranch where Olive is enthralled. Bluto gives Popeye a wild horse to ride, and, after a few humiliating defeats, Popeye conquers it (and wins back Olive's heart). Bluto punches Popeye out, and into the clutches of what can best be described as a rattlesnake constrictor. Bluto then starts menacing Olive, so Popeye eats his spinach, saves her, and defeats Bluto and his gang.
- DirectorDave FleischerRoland CrandallStarsPinto ColvigMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye has replaced Bluto in the Spinach Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet (Olive, of course), much to Bluto's surprise and dismay. Bluto does what he can to sabotage the production, like cranking up the snow and wind machines, and eventually coming onstage, even though Olive wants no part of him.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPierre 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.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsLou FleischerJack MercerMae QuestelFed up with Bluto's greed with his expensive river ferry service, Popeye, Olive and Wimpy decide to undermine the bully by building a bridge instead.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsGus WickeWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPopeye 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.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloCharles LawrenceWilliam PennellPopeye, Olive Oyl, and Wimpy land in America thanks to her rowing. Popeye quickly turns some trees into a log cabin. He hunts for ducks and encounters some pesky Indians while another band of natives surround his two friends in the cabin.