Arsenic and Old Lace (film) Arsenic and Old Lace (film) Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American dark comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant, and based on Joseph Kesselring's play "Arsenic and Old Lace". The script adaptation was by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941 because of star Cary Grant's availability, but it was not released until 1944, after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway. The lead role of Mortimer Brewster was originally intended for Bob Hope, but he could not be released from his contract with Paramount Pictures.
Freehand lace of Elisa Ricci's "Antiche Trine Italiane". It is called 'lace without a pattern' in French, 'numeric lace' in Russian, and the Slovaks have named it by the fact that it is produced on a bare pillow. In Swedish, the verb used for composing a poem is also used for making freehand lace. The basic research on Freehand Lace was made by Bodil Tornehave of Denmark, and published in her book "Danske Frihåndskniplinger" (, Danish Freehand Lace) in 1987. 'Freehand lace' is sometimes confused with 'free lace', which is a modern, artistic form of lace. Freehand lace Freehand lace is bobbin