Movie · 1945
The Lost Weekend
Released 29 November 1945 More from 1945 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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How old were they?
Frank Orth
as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Walter Baldwin
as Man from Albany (uncredited)
Frank Mills
as Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
as Doctor (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
as Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
as 'Bim' Nolan
Douglas Spencer
as Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
Jane Wyman
as Helen St. James
Doris Dowling
as Gloria
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The numbers
43years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Frank Orth — oldest on the call sheet
22Doris Dowling — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast