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I wonder how many of the male protagonists in these movies are extraordinarily or above-average rich, successful, handsome or charming.

I daresay you won't find a George from Seinfeld in there, rather a set of George Clooneys.

I don't doubt that there was an age difference, but we have/had plenty of living couples from that era and can look in the census records - were Spring/Fall marriages that common?