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  1. View All Characters in Arsenic and Old Lace. Guide written by. Samantha Riffle. Cindi Calhoun. Arsenic and Old Lace plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.

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  2. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  3. Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot.

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    • Comedy, Crime, Thriller
    • Frank Capra
    • 1944-09-21
  4. Jonathan Brewster (40-60 years old or able to Play age) Nephew of Abby and Martha Brewster, brother to Teddy and Mortimer. Jonathan is a psychopath who has numerous murders to his credit and no scruples whatsoever. He is creepy. Jonathan is a killer, that loves his business and he’s got an unbelievably short temper. Dr.

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  5. The cast included Minna Phillips as Abby Brewster, Ida Moore as Martha Brewster, Louise Arthur as Elaine Harper, Bela Lugosi as Jonathan Brewster, Michael Whalen as Mortimer Brewster, and Herbert Corthell as Teddy Brewster.

  6. Julius J. Epstein. Philip G. Epstein. Joseph Kesselring. 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 ...

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  8. Two sweet old aunts take it upon themselves to poison lonely old men with nothing to live for, as an act of charity. Their nephew Mortimer has just got married, and is trying to negotiate his way around the shenanigans of the house, while trying to keep his new bride from fleeing.

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