Elizabeth Patterson

An irony: Betsy's brother's widow married the older brother of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Questel died from Alzheimer's Disease. She is buried in the Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. 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). Betsy returned to Baltimore with her son, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. She based her vocal style on the actress ZaSu Pitts ultimately playing the role for more than twenty years. Jerome gave in to his brother, returned to the French Navy and married a German princess. From the mid 1930s Questel also provided the voice for Olive Oyl in the Popeye animated shorts.

She gave birth to a son in 1805, in London. During the 1930s she released a recording of "On The Good Ship Lollypop" which sold more than 2 million copies. Jerome returned to France with Betsy but she was denied landing in continental Europe. From 1930 until 1939 Questel provided the voice of Betty Boop in more than 150 animated shorts. Jerome's brother Napoleon ordered his brother back to France and had the marriage annulled. Questel's "Boop-a-doop" routine was exactly what Fleischer had been looking for. They were married on December 24, 1803, at a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of Baltimore. She was seen by Max Fleischer who was looking for an actress to provide the voice for his Betty Boop character.

He was a Catholic, and the wealthiest man in Maryland after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in New York, New York, Questel won a talent contest at the age of 17, and began performing on vaudeville. Elizabeth's father, William, had been born in Ireland and came to North America prior to the American Revolutionary War. Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879), known as "Betsy", was the daughter of a Baltimore, Maryland merchant, and was the first wife of Jerome Bonaparte, and sister-in-law of Emperor Napoleon I of France.