Natalie Schafer was 13 years old than Jim Backus
The woman who played “Lovey” Howell was 13-years his senior to her co-actor, Jim Backus. That was a time when one didn’t ask a woman’s age and she didn’t say unless you were her doctor. She never talked about it, so nobody ever asked. As it turned out, she was in her 60s during the show.