Mae Questel

Questel died from Alzheimer's Disease. Notable romances in the past include Johnny Depp, Christian Slater, David Pirner, David Duchovny, Gary Oldman, Matt Damon and Conor Oberst. She made her first on-screen appearance in the 1960s, and was widely seen as one of Fanny Brice's card-playing friends in Funny Girl (1968), and also appeared in Zelig, New York Stories (1985) and her final film appearance in Christmas Vacation (1989). She provided the voice for her old character Betty Boop who made a cameo appearance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988). On 6 December 2002 she was sentenced to 480 hours of community service, three years' probation, $3700 in fines, and $6355 in restitution. She based her vocal style on the actress ZaSu Pitts ultimately playing the role for more than twenty years. She got into legal trouble in December 2001 when she was caught shoplifting $5,500 worth of designer clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, California. From the mid 1930s Questel also provided the voice for Olive Oyl in the Popeye animated shorts. She went on to portray the love interest of Richard Gere's character in the 2000 romance Autumn in New York.

During the 1930s she released a recording of "On The Good Ship Lollypop" which sold more than 2 million copies. In 1999 she acted in and served as executive producer for Girl, Interrupted, based on the autobiography of Susanna Kaysen. From 1930 until 1939 Questel provided the voice of Betty Boop in more than 150 animated shorts. Having grown up on the Alien franchise, she signed before having even read a script. Questel's "Boop-a-doop" routine was exactly what Fleischer had been looking for. In 1996 she starred in Al Pacino's debut as a director, Looking for Richard. Soon afterward she accepted a role in the 1997 film Alien: Resurrection. She was seen by Max Fleischer who was looking for an actress to provide the voice for his Betty Boop character. She received yet another nomination in 1994 with Little Women, based on the classic novel of the same name.

Born in New York, New York, Questel won a talent contest at the age of 17, and began performing on vaudeville. Her role in this movie won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an Academy Award nomination. Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress. The next year she appeared in The Age of Innocence, a film based on a novel by Edith Wharton and helmed by director Martin Scorsese, who Ryder named "the best director in the world". In 1992 she starred in that director's Bram Stoker's Dracula. She withdrew from her role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part III, after feeling exhausted from recent roles and afraid her performance would be sub-par.

She went on to play a primary role in another Burton project, the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, alongside her then-boyfriend Johnny Depp. Her breakthrough film is generally considered to be Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, in which she played a depressed goth named Lydia who comes to live in a haunted house. When asked how she wanted her name to appear in the credits, she suggested Ryder as a Mitch Ryder album of her father's played in the background. In 1985 she sent a video audition to appear in the film Desert Bloom, but was rejected. However, David Seltzer, a writer and director, soon noticed her and cast her for his 1986 film Lucas.

This led her to be schooled at home that year, but she also spent time attending the American Conservatory Theater in nearby San Francisco where she started taking acting lessons. She was harassed her first week of junior high school there when a group of bullies mistook her for a feminine, scrawny boy. At age 10 the family moved again to Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Her mother did however show her some films on a screen in the barn, which perhaps lead her to develop an interest in what would later make up her career.

As the area had no electricity Ryder took to reading, particularly appreciating the novel Catcher in the Rye. When she was 7 years old she and her family resided at a commune in Elk, California, where they lived with 7 other families on a 300 acre (1.2 kmē) plot of land. Notable family friends included her godfather Timothy Leary and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. She was named after her birthplace.

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