Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
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Jackson Beck
- Bluto
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jack Mercer
- Popeye
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Olive Oyl
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Seymour Kneitel
- Thomas Johnson(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title of one of the stories on the front page of the newspaper Bluto is reading at the beginning of this movie contains an early use of the word "video" in the sense of referencing a "television set".
- GoofsThere are several instances where Bluto and Olive Oyl are talking but their mouths are not even moving.
Featured review
Stellar remake of FLeischer's Spinach Overture
Symphony in Spinach is a fine example of how Famous Studios remade Fleischer-produced episodes of the Thirties. Like Spinach Overture, Symphony In Spinach was about musical rivalry between Popeye and Bluto, and was set in a high-rise building with Rehearsal Hall on top floor. In this case, it was Popeye's and Bluto's answering an ad by Olive Oyl, who wanted a good musician for her band, one with class who doubled in brass; Popeye boasted that he could pay both instruments! He played "Life on the Ocean Wave", Bluto "I'm in the Mood for Love" on various instruments, after Popeye's attempt to blow his own horn by declaring that he had played in the sympathy orchestra. Bluto pushed Popeye down the letter chute, but Popeye ate spinach and soared back up with "a special delivery for that tin horn". One gag in "Spinach Overture" was repeated, namely Popeye's using a trombone slide to punch Bluto, finally winning the audition with his one-man band, playing"I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" (what else?). All in all, a fine remake of a Flesicher episode. This cartoon stood out, as the Famous Studios cartoons of the Fifties mostly lapsed into mediocrity.
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- petersgrgm
- Nov 30, 2009
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- Also known as
- Symfonia o szpinaku
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- Runtime6 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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