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Fred was TWENTY years older than Nancy


Typical Hollywood that it isn't even mentioned in the picture as a possible roadblock to their marriage, because of course it doesn't matter that he was 20 years older than her, but brother, if she had been 20 years older than him?!!

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Wasn't life awful in 1961 Hollywood?

Boo-hoo-hoo

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It' sjust a sign of the times, that was not that uncommun back then.

Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

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Yeah, the dude was 53 and still a bachelor. Yuck.




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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Actors don't have ages, they have age ranges.





"Ain't it funny how coffee never tastes as good as it smells?"

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Pretty crazy, right? This kind of thing was accepted a lot more back then, but of course we know it's accepted now too (tho pointed out a lot more, thankfully).

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I myself am descended from a marriage in 1822 between a women born in 1801 and a man born in 1779 who was twice her age. My ancestor was born in 1830 when his father was 51 and his mother 29. And the youngest child was born in 1840.

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Wow, that's crazy!!!!

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