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Ullman - 1938/Albert - 1951/Kelly - 1912

posted 15 years ago by PretoriaDZ
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The very casting of this movie made its central point about numbers just being numbers. If Ullman could marry Kelly 26 years her senior, then surely it is no great shock that she could marry Albert, 13 years her junior. The casting showed the old Hollywood caste system of much older man with a younger woman not being mentioned. I remember being repulsed by Audrey Hepburn's romance with Fred Astaire in Funny Face. You could see his withered neck in their dance scene by the lake! I do hate the red pants suit they put Liv in when she was supposed to be dressed up for a date. Now that was matronly looking - it was too old for 40!

It was great see that in a recent movie, The Proposal, that the casting of Ryan Reynolds (1976) was not a main media issue playing Sandra Bullock's (1964) leading man.

[–] mnoe 14 years ago

I remember feeling the same way about Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper in Love in the Afternoon. He was 56; she was 28 years younger (or, literally half his age).

By comparison Liv Ullman's 13 years on Edward Albert seem quaint.

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[–] vpilutis 14 years ago

I saw the play back in 1969 with June Alison, only she was not there her understudy took over that night. It was funnier then the movie but both are good tales. This was my first viewing of the film today, somehow I missed it when it came out in 1973.

November 1, 1973 I met the great lady who became my wife, she's BTW 13 years plus older then me. Here we are 37 years later still together and VERY MUCH in love.

Update I lost my dear wife on Dec 21, 2012.
I still miss her very much

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[–] PretoriaDZ 10 years ago

Good for both of you! Even if you were the same age, good for both of you!

This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!

[–] jimmywhale 14 years ago

I'd just like to point out a small error in the OP, that's repeated in your recent follow-up response. The age difference was 18 years, not 13. Ullmann was 40 and Albert was 22.

He was on Planet Earth the whole time!

[–] mnoe 14 years ago

Except (I thought) we were discussing the ages of the actors, not the characters. As noted in the OP's headline, Edward Albert was born in 1951, which does make him age 22 at time of film release. But Ullman, though playing a 40-year-old, was actually age 35 at film's release.

In my post, at least, I was contrasting this with the actual ages involved in Love in the Afternoon. I can't remember how old Billy Wilder expects us to think Gary Cooper's character is, but Cooper was twice Hepburn's age and (in my opinion) looked even older.

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