A Midsummer Night's Dream poster

Movie · 1935

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Released 9 October 1935 More from 1935 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Grant Mitchell
as Egeus
61
Frank McHugh
as Quince
37
Victor Jory
as Oberon
32
Dick Powell
as Lysander
30
Anita Louise
as Titania
20
Billy Barty
as Mustard-Seed
10
Helen Westcott
as Cobweb
7
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
54years between the oldest and youngest billed
61Grant Mitchell — oldest on the call sheet
7Helen Westcott — youngest billed
28average age of the credited cast
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