11 Facts About Margie Hines

Margaret Louise Hines, known as Marjorie Hines or Margie Hines, was an American voice actress.

Margie Hines was known for her work as a voice artist at Fleischer Studios, where she was the original voice of Betty Boop, although Little Ann Little erroneously claimed to have been the first and longest serving voice artist, Hines served from from 1930 until 1932 and again from 1938 until 1939, before voicing Olive Oyl and Swee' Pea in the Popeye the Sailor cartoons from 1938 to 1944.

Margie Hines provided the voices for Fleischer's animated films Gulliver's Travels and Mr Bug Goes to Town.

Max Fleischer hired Margie Hines, as she was a Helen Kane sound-alike, and Kane was the basis for the character, who in turn based her act on csinger and child entertainer Baby Esther.

Margie Hines voiced Betty Boop through her final series entries in 1939, and continued to voice Olive until 1943, when the studio, by then taken over by Paramount Pictures and renamed Famous Studios, returned to New York.

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Margie Hines was born in Glendale, Queens, New York City, in October 1909 as Margaret Louise Margie Hines.

On March 3,1939, at the purported age of 21, Hines married her 29 year old co-star Winfield B "Jack" Mercer, who provided the voice of Popeye.

Margie Hines married for a second time in 1951, to Raymond Brenneis, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

In 1956, Margie Hines married Jesse William Heidtmann in Southold, New York.

Under the name Marjorie L Heidtmann, Hines died in Seaford, New York on December 23,1985, at the age of 76.

Margie Hines was survived by her husband Jesse, who died in June 1997, at the age of 79.