Max Fleischer — Producer (104)
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We Aim to Please (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
We Aim to Please
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Mae Questel / William 'Billy' Costello
other title: On est là pour vous servir
Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two customers are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay you Tuesday" schtick) and Bluto, who orders 6 sandwiches and refuses to pay for them. This leads, of course, to a fight, which Popeye needs his spinach to win.
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It's the Cat's (1926) WikiData IMDb TMDB
It's the Cat's
director: Max Fleischer / Dave Fleischer
other title: It's the Cats
Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.
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Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix (1942) IMDb TMDB
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Margie Hines / Jack Mercer
other title: Olive n’apprécie pas du tout l’eau
Popeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about five seconds, until Olive comes on board ship for a tour. The boys vie for her attention.
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Leave Well Enough Alone (1939) IMDb TMDB
Leave Well Enough Alone
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Margie Hines
other title: Laissez-moi tranquille
Popeye, feeling sorry for the puppies in the window of Olive Oyl's pet shop, buys all the animals (mostly dogs) and sets them free. A parrot declines to go, singing the title song to explain why it likes it just fine in the shop. Meanwhile, the freed dogs are not faring well.
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Organ Grinder's Swing (1937) IMDb TMDB
Organ Grinder's Swing
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Popeye connait la musique
Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion.
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Lost and Foundry (1937) IMDb TMDB
Lost and Foundry
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel
other title: Mimosa en vadrouille
Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is 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.
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I Never Changes My Altitude (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Never Changes My Altitude
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Gus Wicke …
other title: Popeye toujours à la hauteur
Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane.
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Hospitaliky (1937) IMDb TMDB
Hospitaliky
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Hospitalité s’il vous plait
To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.
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The Football Toucher Downer (1937) IMDb TMDB
The Football Toucher Downer
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: C’est le pied, le foot
Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.