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Ask Parky: improbable families

This week our film history expert answers your questions on age discrepancies between actors playing family members, silhouette cinema, and dwarf performersfs28 Afs24 It seems to be. Michael J. Fox was a mere three years older than Crispin Glover when he played his son in Back to the Future (1985) and Jessica Tandy was only two years husband Hume Cronyn's senior when she essayed his daughter in The Green Years (1946). Helen Hunt was a year older than 'father' Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), while Roger Daltrey was born three months before screen dad Robert Powell and only three years after 'mother' Ann-Margret in Tommy (1975).parparCinema's smallest mother-child discrepancy is the six months separating Maureen Stapleton from Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), while the father-child gap appears to be the 331 days between Roger Livesey and Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (1960). Angela Lansbury was cast as the... (read more)