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Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope There's A Fatted Calf Daffy Aunts Abby and Martha (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair) are wondering why nephew Mortimer (Cary Grant, not seen) is so upset over their murder habit when his criminally insane brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey), with sidekick Einstein (Peter Lorre), appears, in Arsenic And Old Lace, 1944.
Arsenic and Old Lace. Jump to. Edit. Summaries. Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers. Mortimer Brewster ...
Arsenic and Old Lace is a film directed by Frank Capra with Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey .... Year: 1944. Original title: Arsenic and Old Lace. Synopsis: Mortimer Brewster stops off in Brooklyn to visit his two favourite aunts Abby and Martha to tell them that he has just gotten married.
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. On September 25, 1943, the play moved to the Hudson ...
Arsenic and Old Lace INTRODUCTION AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY PLOT SUMMARY CHARACTERS THEMES STYLE HISTORICAL CONTEXT CRITICAL OVERVIEW CRITICISM SOURCES FURTHER READING. JOSEPH KESSELRING 1941. INTRODUCTION. In 1941, New Yorkers were looking for some entertainment to take their minds off of the war in Europe and the growing fear that America would be pulled into it.
Oscar-winner Cary Grant ("The Awful Truth," "Suspicion," "North by Northwest") stars as a drama critic whose life is turned upside down when he discovers that his two spinster aunts have taken to poisoning their gentlemen house guests and burying the bodies in their old Victorian home. A classic and hilarious black comedy based on the popular Broadway play. Directed and produced by Oscar ...
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
