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Movie · 1935

She Couldn't Take It

Released 8 October 1935 More from 1935 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Emily Fitzroy
as Party Guest
75
Donald Meek
as Uncle Wyndersham
57
John Ince
as Prison Official
57
Jack Duffy
as Farmer
53
Robert Middlemass
as Desk Sergeant
52
George McKay
as Red
51
Henry Roquemore
as Party Guest
49
Walter Connolly
as Daniel Van Dyke
48
Raymond Walburn
as Party Guest
48
Olaf Hytten
as Van Dyke Butler
47
Franklin Pangborn
as Spot's Secretary
46
Frank Conroy
as Henry Raleigh
44
George Lloyd
as Prison Turnkey
42
Emmett Vogan
as Reporter
42
Ray Turner
as Janitor
39
Wallace Ford
as "Fingers" Boston
37
William Tannen
as Cesar
23
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
52years between the oldest and youngest billed
75Emily Fitzroy — oldest on the call sheet
23William Tannen — youngest billed
48average age of the credited cast
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