Olive Oyl For President - Notes and Comments

Notes and Comments

Many of the gags and situations in Olive Oyl for President are reworked from Betty Boop for President, produced by Famous Studios' predecessor Fleischer Studios in 1932. Newly created Famous cartoon character Little Audrey from the Noveltoon Santa's Surprise is seen briefly licking a giant ice cream cone; Audrey's first starring short, Butterscotch and Soda, would be released six months after Olive Oyl for President. OOfP was also double-featured with the Little Lulu short, The Dog Show-Off, which was the final Little Lulu short after Famous Studios decided not to renew the license to Marjorie Henderson Buell for the Little Lulu character, and had created Little Audrey (as mentioned before). All five cartoons shared the same voice actress, Mae Questel.

Olive Oyl's version of the "If I Were President" song (an earlier version appeared in Betty Boop for President) was parodied in a track of the same name from Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, the 1992 debut album by hip hop group The Pharcyde.

This cartoon was one of the last in the series to use the exact opening music in place since the conversion to color. In 1948, the opening bar of "The Sailor's Hornpipe" would be shortened, but through 1951, the rest of the opening theme would remain the same (that year, the theme was entirely re-recorded). The 1943-48 Popeye theme and the closing music from this particular cartoon's end Paramount title were lifted verbatim for use in the opening and closing logos of Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) on Popeye cartoons originally released in color.