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      • Arsenic and Old Lace” was a play that came out the same year of Gaige’s book. No one knows exactly why he chose to name the cocktail after the play, though it’s reasonable to assume the Arsenic in question was a reference to the supposed deleterious effects of absinthe, and the Old Lace to the floral violette.
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  2. Jul 13, 2008 · How Arsenic and Old Lace got its name. Gary Dexter investigates 'Arsenic and Old Lace' by Joseph Kesselring. Arsenic and Old Lace is generally associated with the 1944 film starring Cary...

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  3. World War II resulted from the rise of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan. These militaristic regimes gained control as a result of the Great Depression experienced by most of the ...

  4. Oct 11, 2022 · Arsenic and Old Lace: Madness in the Family. By David Cairns. Essays —. Oct 11, 2022. A rsenic and Old Lace, the best film ever made about the construction of the Panama Canal, was shot in 1941 but then laid down, like a fine wine or an expiring body, for three years, until the source play finished its Broadway run.

  5. Background. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is a frenzied, hilarious, madcap black comedy from celebrated director Frank Capra. The slapstick film, with murderous aunts compassionately serving up elderberry wine to elderly gentlemen - with their crazy nephew assisting by burying the unfortunate victims, is unlike most of the other reform-minded ...

  6. Although Kesselring's name was kept as full author, by the time it reached the stage of Broadway's Fulton Theater in 1941, it included a great deal of Lindsay and Crouse's contributions and had even been renamed by them Arsenic and Old Lace. Reviewers and drama critics raved, and the play was a huge commercial success.

  7. Nov 8, 2021 · The film "Arsenic and Old Lace" was one of many produced during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Starring the beautiful Priscilla Lane and heartthrob Cary Grant, this movie was adapted from a comedic play by Joseph Kesserling that was first produced in 1941, according to Screen Agent. We follow the tale of Mortimer Brewster, a famous theatre critic ...

  8. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Cary Grant is panic-stricken when he suspects his seemingly sweet spinster aunts harbours a dark secret, in Frank Capra’s uncharacteristic foray into twisted farce. “Riotously funny film adaptation of the smash Broadway comedy, coddled and coaxed into hilarious existence by master director Capra.”.

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