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Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American screwball mystery black comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein is based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 play of the same name.
- $4.8 million
- Max Steiner
- $1.2 million
- Frank Capra, Jack L. Warner
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.
- Frank Capra
- 320
- 3 min
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the 1944 film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra . The play was produced by Lindsay and Crouse and directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941.
- January 10, 1941
- Fulton Theatre, Broadway
Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) -- (Movie Clip) All Alone In The World Mortimer (Cary Grant) is desperate to delay his bride (Priscilla Lane) and have his uncle committed, having just discovered his aunts Abby and Martha (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair) like to poison old men, when a candidate (Edward McWade) appears, in Arsenic And Old Lace, 1944.
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 ).
Feb 14, 2023. Oct 31, 2022. Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When...
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- Comedy
A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff (Raymond Massey), and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.
