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Ages don't add up

posted 9 years ago by spotlightne
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The young Dr woman is qualified at the age of 21 and her father is 77.

Big age gap.

[–] pawtrax67 9 years ago

He found true love at 55-56.

[–] gary-64659 9 years ago

As the mother would have to be so much younger than him it was probably just lust, or a slow day at the lab.

[–] vestdennis 9 years ago

Those labs are pretty dull places so it figures a little hanky-panky occurred.

[–] bizerta 9 years ago

At the age of 63, President John Tyler (b. 1790) had a son (b.1853). At the age of 75, that son had a son of his own. President Tyler's grandson (b. 1928) was 138 years younger than the President.

[–] PaladinNJ (21602) 3 years ago

And still alive:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/

[–] MAGolding (1236) 3 years ago

One of my great great grandfathers was born when his father was fifty. His youngest sister was born when their father was 60. That father's father-in-law was about 61 when his youngest child was born.

[–] liscarkat (18985) 10 months ago

Joan Weldon was twenty-three in the autumn of 1953 when the movie was filmed. Was it stated in dialogue that her character, Dr. Patricia Medford, was twenty-one? If it was, I missed it. Edmund Gwenn was seventy-six, but I got the impression Dr. Harold Medford was in his sixties.