Two Flaming Youths poster

Movie · 1927

Two Flaming Youths

Released 17 December 1927 More from 1927 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
W.C. Fields
as Gabby Gilfoil
47
Wallace Beery
as Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
42
Chester Conklin
as Sheriff Ben Holden
41
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
6years between the oldest and youngest billed
47W.C. Fields — oldest on the call sheet
41Chester Conklin — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast
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