The Wings of the Dove poster

Movie · 1997

The Wings of the Dove

Released 4 September 1997 More from 1997 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Michael Gambon
as Lionel Croy
56
Alex Jennings
as Lord Mark
40
Elizabeth McGovern
as Susan Stringham
36
Helena Bonham Carter
as Kate Croy
31
Ben Miles
as Journalist 1
30
Alison Elliott
as Millie Theale
27
Philip Wright
as Journalist 2
Unknown
Diana Kent
as Merton's Party Companion
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
29years between the oldest and youngest billed
56Michael Gambon — oldest on the call sheet
27Alison Elliott — youngest billed
37average age of the credited cast
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