The Brewster family of Brooklyn, New York, is descended from Mayflower settlers. Several illustrious … See more

• Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster
• Priscilla Lane as Elaine Brewster
• Josephine Hull as Aunt Abby Brewster
• Jean Adair as Aunt Martha Brewster… See more

The play Arsenic and Old Lace was written by Joseph Kesselring, son of German immigrants and a former professor at Bethel College, a pacifist Mennonite college. It was written in the anti-war atmosphere of the late 1930s. Cap… See more

According to Warner Bros. records, the film grossed $2,836,000 domestically and $1,948,000 internationally.
The contemporary critical reviews were uniformly positive. The New York Times critic summed u… See more

Arsenic and Old Lace was adapted as a half-hour radio play for the November 25, 1946, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Boris Karloff and Eddie Albert. A one-hour adaptation was broadcast on January 25… See more

• List of American films of 1944
• Amy Archer-Gilligan – a nursing home owner accused of murdering elderly men in her care 1910–1917
• Black Widow murders – a real murder case whose events were compared to the fictio… See more

• Arsenic and Old Lace at IMDb
• Arsenic and Old Lace at AllMovie
• Arsenic and Old Lace at Rotten Tomatoes
• Arsenic and Old Lace at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films … See more