Popeye the Sailorpedia
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 Jimmy Donnelly was a child actor who played the role of Matey the Newsboy on Popeye's radio show.

Trivia[]

  • Matey (also known as "Sonny") was a non-Segar character who filled in as a substitute for Swee'Pea.
  • Wheatena put so much money into the broadcast rights paid to KFS and into leasing national airtime through the NBC-WEAF Network that their remaining budget did not afford them enough money to contract Popeye voice actor Jack Mercer or Mae Questel, who had voiced Swee'Pea in the cartoons.
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