Overview - Arsenic and Old Lace

Overview

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 in the cellar!

Cast

• Name: Cary Grant

  Character: Mortimer Brewster

  Popularity: 2.0897

  

• Name: Priscilla Lane

  Character: Elaine Harper Brewster

  Popularity: 1.1261

  

• Name: Josephine Hull

  Character: Aunt Abby Brewster

  Popularity: 1.1143

  

• Name: Jean Adair

  Character: Aunt Martha Brewster

  Popularity: 0.659

  

• Name: Raymond Massey

  Character: Jonathan Brewster

  Popularity: 2.0322

  

• Name: John Alexander

  Character: 'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster

  Popularity: 0.8775

  

• Name: Peter Lorre

  Character: Dr. Einstein

  Popularity: 1.6814

  

• Name: Jack Carson

  Character: Officer Patrick O'Hara

  Popularity: 1.2484