Wing and a Prayer poster

Movie · 1944

Wing and a Prayer

Released 1 January 1944 More from 1944 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Charles Bickford
as Captain Waddell
53
Cedric Hardwicke
as Admiral
50
Dana Andrews
as Edward Moulton
35
Betty Grable
as (archive footage)
27
William Eythe
as Hallam "Oscar" Scott
25
Richard Jaeckel
as Beezy Bessemer
17
FR·02

The numbers

Computed from the cast above
36years between the oldest and youngest billed
53Charles Bickford — oldest on the call sheet
17Richard Jaeckel — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast
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