Sweet Adeline poster

Movie · 1934

Sweet Adeline

Released 29 December 1934 More from 1934 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Joseph Cawthorn
as Oscar Schmidt
66
Ned Sparks
as Dan Herzig
51
Irene Dunne
as Adeline 'Addie' Schmidt
36
Wini Shaw
as Elysia
27
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
39years between the oldest and youngest billed
66Joseph Cawthorn — oldest on the call sheet
27Wini Shaw — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast
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