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- When Arsenic and Old Lace opened on Broadway in 1941, Alcorn attended a show but reportedly didn’t like it. However, the play was a huge success, leading Frank Capra to release a film adaptation in 1944. Nearly a century later, many consider the film to be a Halloween classic—though they may not realize it was inspired by real, horrific events.
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Oct 3, 2023 · Arsenic and Old Lace, a classic movie, was based on a successful Broadway play and faced delays due to Cary Grant’s schedule, but still became a box office success and inspired a radio adaptation with the original cast.
Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot.
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- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Frank Capra
- 1944-09-21
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Official Trailer - Cary Grant, Peter Lorre Movie HD. Watch on. Frank Capra’s 1944 film version of “Arsenic and Old Lace,’’ released 70 years ago and...
Feb 5, 2020 · Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Original Trailer: Cary Grant - Priscilla Lane - Frank Capra - Comedy. A young man (Cary Grant) about to be married discovers his two aunts are poisoning lonely...
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- Turner Classic Movies
Oct 25, 2021 · That’s what Cary Grant famously declares in the 1944 movie Arsenic and Old Lace, based on the hit Broadway play. The macabre comedy, set on Halloween, followed the discovery by Grant’s...
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The opening introducing Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane as the marrying couple, written by Julius and Philip Epstein as a preamble to their adaptation of the Joseph Kesselring play, Frank Capra directing, the held-for-release 1944 hit Arsenic And Old Lace.
Arsenic and Old Lace is undoubtedly one of the wackiest Cary Grant films ever made. It’s a broad, screwball farce filled with gasping double takes, outlandish silliness and pratfalling face-plants.
