A Night at Earl Carroll's poster

Movie · 1940

A Night at Earl Carroll's

Released 6 December 1940 More from 1940 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
George McKay
as Mayor Stokes of San Diego
56
William B. Davidson
as Mayor Green of San Bernardino
52
Russell Hicks
as Mayor Jones of Hollywood
45
J. Carrol Naish
as Steve Kalkus
44
Myrna Dell
as Showgirl
16
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
40years between the oldest and youngest billed
56George McKay — oldest on the call sheet
16Myrna Dell — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast
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