The Ghost Breakers poster

Movie · 1940

The Ghost Breakers

Released 21 June 1940 More from 1940 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Virginia Brissac
as Mother Zombie
57
Emmett Vogan
as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
46
Lloyd Corrigan
as Martin
39
Bob Hope
as Larry Lawrence
37
Paulette Goddard
as Mary Carter
30
Willie Best
as Alex
27
Douglas Kennedy
as Intern (uncredited)
24
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
33years between the oldest and youngest billed
57Virginia Brissac — oldest on the call sheet
24Douglas Kennedy — youngest billed
37average age of the credited cast
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