Age problem
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thbryn — 16 years ago(October 17, 2009 09:08 PM)
In "Adams's Rib" Spencer Tracy's mother Mrs.Mondello was a year older than Tracey. In "Young Philadelpians" Paul Newman was four years older than his "mother." These things happen. Casting doesn't have to be perfect, just good.
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herveywillets — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 08:30 PM)
Joan Crawford once remarked "I'd play Wallace Beery's mother if the role was good enough".
And it's not always the ladies, Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke's father in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, even though he was six months younger than Van Dyke. -
laxlon — 15 years ago(February 07, 2011 10:14 PM)
They just said on TCM that Greer Garson was actually 37 when she made "Mrs. Miniver". Guess Greer lied about here age. When you think about it, she was kind of old by Hollywood standards becoming a star with "Mr Chips" in 1939. Joan Crawford was born one year after Greer Garson and by the early 1940s she was washed up at MGM and Garson was just getting started.