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Or in the classic
North by Northwest
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1959), Jessie Royce Landis plays the mother of Cary Grant even though she was only a little over seven years older than the dashing Grant.
In other words, for better or worse, we're talking about a longtime Hollywood convention.

In The Manchurian Candidate, Angela Lansbury (36) played the mother of Laurence Harvey (33)
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In The Brady Bunch Movie:
Though Christine Taylor plays the older sister, she is actually younger than Jennifer Elise Cox who plays the middle sister.

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Connery is 12 years older than Harrison Ford.

Nicholson?

In the railway children, Sally Thomsett, who played Phyllis, was 2 years older than the girl who played Bobbie. She was 21, playing an 8 year old, and had a clause in her contract saying that she had to pretend to be 16.
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Haha cool thread
In Malcolm in the Middle, Justin Berfield plays Reese, Malcolm's older brother when in fact Frankie Muniz is 3 months older.
Estelle Getty who played Beatrice Arthur's mother in The Golden Girls is in fact 2 months younger than her on-screen daughter.

In The Graduate Anne Bancroft played the older woman who seduced Dustin Hoffman the young graduate. Yet in real life Anne was only 6 years older than Dustin.

And let us not forget that Sean Connery is only 6(or years older than Harrison Ford, and yet he played his dad in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".. but lets face it.. Who else could have?

And on Good Times, the show from the 70s. The actor who played the father was only 8 yrs older than the actor who played the oldest son.
On 7th Heaven. The actress who plays the middle daughter is older than the actress who player h1354er older sister.
Same thing happend on Eight is Enough. A couple of the actresses who played younger sisters are older than the one who played the oldest sister.
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