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Nan Martin (Mama Tarnower) is 1 Year younger than Cloris Leachman...

posted 16 years ago by JHHPRO
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...yet she's playing her mother? I just thought that was an interesting fact that nobody else has posted here.

Only in Hollywood can an actress play a parent where in real life it would be biologically impossible.

[–] glasha-1 13 years ago

Estelle Getty was also younger than Bea Arthur. And of course there are tons of examples when there is only a few years difference between the actors playing a parent and a child.

FYC: Three-time Academy Awards nominee Angela Lansbury for an Honorary Oscar