Movie · 1935
Man on the Flying Trapeze
“Come to the crowning of America's comedy King!”
Released 3 August 1935 66 min Comedy More from 1935 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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How old were they?
Vera Lewis
as Mrs. Cordelia Neselrode
Oscar Apfel
as President Malloy
W.C. Fields
as Ambrose Wolfinger
Lew Kelly
as Adolph Berg
Arthur Aylesworth
as Judge (uncredited)
Kathleen Howard
as Leona Wolfinger
Tammany Young
as 'Willie' the Weasel
James Burke
as Patrolman
Walter Brennan
as 'Legs' Garnett
Minerva Urecal
as Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
Lucien Littlefield
as Mr. Peabody
Edward Gargan
as Patrolman
Mary Brian
as Hope Wolfinger
Grady Sutton
as Claude Neselrode
James Flavin
as Chauffeur (uncredited)
Carlotta Monti
as Secretary
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The numbers
34years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Vera Lewis — oldest on the call sheet
28Carlotta Monti — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast