Movie · 1935
The Whole Town's Talking
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Released 22 February 1935 93 min Comedy / Crime More from 1935 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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How old were they?
Etienne Girardot
as Seaver
Arthur Byron
as Spencer
J. Farrell MacDonald
as Prison Warden (uncredited)
Donald Meek
as Hoyt
Paul Harvey
as 'J.G.' Carpenter
Ralph Remley
as Sam Dixon
James Donlan
as Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe
Arthur Hohl
as Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle
Edward G. Robinson
as Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion
Edward Brophy
as 'Slugs' Martin
Wallace Ford
as Healy
Bess Flowers
as Miss Gower (uncredited)
Jean Arthur
as Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
Joe Sawyer
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Lucille Ball
as Bank Employee (uncredited)
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The numbers
56years between the oldest and youngest billed
79Etienne Girardot — oldest on the call sheet
23Lucille Ball — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast