The Age for Love

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The Age for Love

1931

1h 21m

9.0(1 votes)

Drama

Overview

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.

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17 members

Acting

Billie Dove

Jean Hurd

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Charles Starrett

Dudley Crome

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Lois Wilson

Sylvia Pearson

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Edward Everett Horton

Horace Keats

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Mary Duncan

Nina Donnet

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Adrian Morris

Jeff Aldrich

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Betty Ross Clarke

Dot Aldrich

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Vivien Oakland

Grace

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George Beranger

The Poet

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Jed Prouty

Floyd Evans

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Joan Standing

Eleanor

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Alice Moe

Annie

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Charles Sellon

Mr. Pearson

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Pierre de Ramey

Jules

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Cecil Cunningham

Pamela

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Payne B. Johnson

Baby

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Wilfred Lucas

Undetermined Role

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