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Synopsis. Mortimer Brewster is living a happy life: he has a steady job at a prominent New York newspaper, he’s just become engaged, and he gets to visit his sweet spinster aunts to announce the engagement.
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Synopsis: Arsenic and Old Lace. Arsenic and Old Lace opens in the living room of the Brewster home, inhabited by two spinster aunts, Abby and Martha Brewster, and their nephew, Teddy. Rev.
Synopsis. New York drama critic Mortimer Brewster ( Cary Grant ), despite being the acclaimed author of The Bachelors Bible (and Marriage, a Fraud and a Failure, and Mind over Matrimony) has finally agreed to marry his sweetheart, Elaine Harper ( Priscilla Lane ).
Arsenic and Old Lace. By Joseph Kesselring. Directed by Daniel Millhouse. The College Theater Department sincerely thanks the library for research support, for classes studying the script and production, as well as for the cast, director, and production team working on the project. Brief Synopsis.
Broadway: There’s Wisdom in Women (1935), Arsenic and Old Lace (1939), Four Twelves are 48 (1951), and Mother of that Wisdom (1963). Arsenic and Old Lace was his masterpiece. It ran for 1,444 performances on Broadway and 1,337 performances in London, and became a staple in high school and dinner theater circuits.
3w, 11m. Details. Summary. We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other brother—these require no further description or amplification here.
Aug 2, 2022 · by Khalid Y. Long, PhD, Production Dramaturg. Amy Archer-Gilligan. It has been suggested that what inspired Joseph Kesselring to write Arsenic and Old Lace was the real-life story of Amy Archer-Gilligan (1873-1962), a serial killer who murdered between 20 and 100 people.
