this movie made zero sense!
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silver-starlet — 9 years ago(June 18, 2016 11:10 AM)
It's unusual, isn't it? There are huge age gaps in my family. My oldest sibling is 13 years older than me. My mother's oldest sibling was 17 years older than she was. Even growing up with that, I always found the Brenner family strange. I would think it was too weird if maybe they had a sibling or two between him, but yeah. Mitch is like at least 30. He seemed closer in age with his mother than with his sister.
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fayremead — 9 years ago(July 14, 2016 05:42 PM)
Hitchcock occasionally toyed with his audience as in "North by Northwest" where Jessie Royce Landis and Cary Grant, little more than seven years apart in age, played mother and son. In "The Birds" we have an unusual-looking age spread between siblings but it wouldn't be that far-fetched if Lydia was in her teens when she bore Mitch, then in her late forties gave birth to Cathy.
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mals2011 — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 06:48 PM)
No! I am the baby of 6, my Mother had me at age 42. My eldest brother was in law school when I was born. My parents wanted a large family, but didn't want to have more than 2 kids in college (or diapers) at the same time. Now let it be said I am a baby boomer. Things were different then
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tsrts — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 10:39 PM)
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csimpkins53 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 10:00 AM)
Rod Taylor ("Mitch" in the movie was born in 1930). So he was only 32 when the movie was filmed in 1962 (it was released in 1963). (32 is certainly not "old"). So that would have made him 21 years older than his eleven year old "sister" Cathy, in the movie. That is certainly plausible. My father was 20 years older than his youngest sibling. My father passed away in Oct. 1992 but as of this writing in Oct. 2016 his youngest sibling is still living and still doing very well 24 years after my father's death. Now consider the mother, Lydia, played by Jessica Tandy. Tandy was born in 1909 so she, as "Lydia" would have been about 21 when "Mitch" was born and about 43 when "Cathy" was born and about 54 when the movie was released. Again, all very plausible. One thing to note though, "Cathy" was played by Veronica Cartwright who was actually about 14 (born 1949) when the movie came out not 11 as portrayed in the movie.
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candacbap-88-377616 — 9 years ago(October 27, 2016 04:24 PM)
Rod Taylor looks a lot older than 32, in The Birds. Hedren, who was the same age as Taylor, looks younger than 32.
On my mother's side, there were 11 of them. The birth years range from 1920-1945. I haven't heard of this in recent times, but my grandmother was married at 15, which wasn't uncommon back then. Now, I believe, it's against the law in most states. -
pufnstuff — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 03:40 PM)
My mother is the next-youngest sibling in a family of thirteen.
Her oldest sister was 20 when she was born. So when my mother was 11, her oldest sister was 31.
Simple, really.
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HalfBloodPrincess1967 — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 08:27 AM)
Yes, my mother had me at 43 years old (I was a surprise). My next oldest sister is around 14 years older than me, the next 16 years older, and my brother is around 20 years older, it happens sometimes.
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mdonln — 9 years ago(January 06, 2017 07:16 PM)
known_troll says> why did that old guy had a 11 year old sister? this movie made zero sense!
Maybe it's because I'm Catholic but growing up I encountered all kinds of families. Some in which the next generation had overtaken the previous one; meaning the aunt or uncle was younger than or similar in age to the niece or nephew. There were siblings twenty years apart. There were kids being raised by aunts and uncles and grandparents so they had sibling type relationships with cousins, etc. There were multiple mixed marriages of cultures, races, religions, age groups, etc.
As a result, nothing ever seems that odd to me when I see it in a movie. Today with so many divorces and remarriages families are more convoluted than ever yet people seem more confused. Why is that?
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