Black Friday poster

Movie · 1940

Black Friday

Released 29 February 1940 More from 1940 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Edward Earle
as Detective
57
Virginia Brissac
as Mrs. Margaret Kingsley
56
Emmett Vogan
as Det. Carpenter
46
John Kelly
as Taxi Driver
38
Murray Alper
as Bellhop
36
Edmund MacDonald
as Frank Miller
31
Anne Nagel
as Sunny Rogers
24
Anne Gwynne
as Jean Sovac
21
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
36years between the oldest and youngest billed
57Edward Earle — oldest on the call sheet
21Anne Gwynne — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast
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