The year in ages
1934
The movies of 1934, and how old the leads really were when they hit cinemas.
39average lead age in 1934
18Orson Welles in The Hearts of Age
54W.C. Fields in It's a Gift
36titles of 1934 on record
33lead It Happened One Night
Clark Gable was 33
41lead The Thin Man
William Powell was 41
39lead L'Atalante
Michel Simon was 39
44lead The Man Who Knew Too Much
Leslie Banks was 44
46lead The Black Cat
Boris Karloff was 46
44lead Babes in Toyland
Stan Laurel was 44
29lead Tarzan and His Mate
Johnny Weissmüller was 29
35lead The Gay Divorcee
Fred Astaire was 35
The Scarlet Empress
28lead Queen Christina
Greta Garbo was 28
41lead Of Human Bondage
Leslie Howard was 41
The Wise Little Hen
52lead Twentieth Century
John Barrymore was 52
54lead It's a Gift
W.C. Fields was 54
31lead Cleopatra
Claudette Colbert was 31
31lead Imitation of Life
Claudette Colbert was 31
33lead Manhattan Melodrama
Clark Gable was 33
49lead Treasure Island
Wallace Beery was 49
47lead The Lost Patrol
Victor McLaglen was 47
44lead Them Thar Hills
Stan Laurel was 44
41lead The Scarlet Pimpernel
Leslie Howard was 41
The Merry Widow
A Story of Floating Weeds
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misérables
36lead Death Takes a Holiday
Fredric March was 36
Waltzes from Vienna
Gulliver Mickey
Our Daily Bread
28lead Dames
Joan Blondell was 28
18lead The Hearts of Age
Orson Welles was 18
43lead Oliver the Eighth
Stan Laurel was 43
Blue Steel
Men in Black
The Star Packer
44lead The Live Ghost
Stan Laurel was 44