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Arsenic and Old Lace
Warner Brothers - 1944
Fine+

Australian Daybill 13" x 28"


Frank Capra made this adaptation of the famous play as a quick project just before he went off to direct the War Department's "Why We Fight" series during WWII. It stars Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster, a man who discovers that his two saintly old aunts, Martha and Abby, have a nasty habit of killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar, with the aid of their bugle-blowing nephew, Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt). "Insanity runs in my family...It practically gallops." Add to the mix another nephew Jonathan, who's a true killer, and his creepy little alcoholic sidekick Dr. Einstein, and the results are one of Hollywood's true comedy classics. Shot in 1941, it sat for three years until the Broadway show finished its run. This Australian daybill has minor edge tears with tape on the back, wrinkling and small stains.

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