Arsenic and Old Lace (film) to Warner Bros records the film earned $2,836,000 domestically and $1,948,000 foreign. "Arsenic and Old Lace" was adapted as a radio play for the November 25, 1946, broadcast of "The Screen Guild Theater" with Boris Karloff and Eddie Albert, and the January 25, 1948, broadcast of the "Ford Theatre". Explanatory notes Citations Bibliography 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
Old Lace (comics) engineered in the 87th century, the project being commissioned by Dale and Stacey Yorkes, the parents of Gertrude. At the parents request, the designer also put in several character traits which included a tele-empathic bond with Gertrude as well as being incapable of harming any of her immediate family, as discovered when Gertrude orders Old Lace to attack her parents and Old Lace refuses. Old Lace was originally intended to be part of Gert's inheritance for when her parents died but Gertrude and the rest of the Runaways stumble upon her while searching the Yorkes' basement for the body of