Jack and the Beanstalk poster

Movie · 1952

Jack and the Beanstalk

Released 7 April 1952 More from 1952 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular tale turning into a wacky Abbott and Costello-faced musical retelling involving stolen cows, terrible giants, and the heroic boy with an opportunistic butcher in a castle above the clouds.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Arthur Shields
as Patrick the Harp (uncredited)
56
Lou Costello
as Jack / Jack Strong
46
Mel Blanc
as Farm Animals (uncredited) (voice)
43
Buddy Baer
as Sgt. Riley / The Giant
36
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
20years between the oldest and youngest billed
56Arthur Shields — oldest on the call sheet
36Buddy Baer — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast
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