Thursday Night Movies | Frank Capra's ARSENIC & OLD LACE (1944New-To-Me)

Welcome to Thursday Night Movies @ Jerry & Shirley's!

This movie fits into the "worthwhile, new-to-me movies from ALL eras & genres", but some of these movies will be Pre-Code, some will be NEW Classic, some will be Film Noir, and some will be 3D.

GENERALLY, this will be a regularly occurring Event on the LAST Thursday every other month.
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This Event will take place at our home near GRAVOIS BLUFFS in Fenton, MO. Our address and directions to it will be e-mailed to each attendee via MeetUp 24 hours ahead of the event. We'd prefer to have a home e-mail address and/or cell (that we will keep confidential) for each person who attends one of our Home Events, so please consider providing one asap--THANKS!

SCHEDULE
6:30PM: Show-up/Mingle
7PM: Movie begins - No one admitted after the movie starts
9PM: Discuss/Mingle
10PM: Jerry & Shirley go to bed!

Jerry & Shirley will provide some air-popped popcorn, a variety of sodas [Coke, Sprite, Diet Pepsi, etc.], Hot Chocolate (with/without Irish Cream), and maybe more! If you're of a mind to and haven't done so already, please post your Movie Food/Beverage Contribution To Share in the Comments section below.

Contributions are NOT required.
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JERRY SAYS: Watching this around Halloween was a family tradition for Organizer TOM PATTON's family, and I've never seen the whole movie, so I decided to make it MY Halloween movie this year. ALSO: I've never seen a CARY GRANT movie that wasn't worthwhile AND Frank Capra has a wonderful track record, too! It's too bad BORIS KARLOFF didn't get the Jonathan Brewster role he originated on Broadway, BUT you can see him in the role on a DVD of the February 5, 1962 (Season 11, Episode 3) edition of the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV show, available on Amazon AND hear him in the role in a half-hour radio play from the November 25, 1946 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYgdtmIn3XY
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Based on the Broadway play Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsenicandOldLace(play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JosephKesselring
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Rotten Tomatoes
Writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they tie the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their respective family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat. With his eccentric aunts (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), disturbed uncle (John Alexander), and homicidal brother (Raymond Massey), he starts to realize that his family is even crazier than he thought.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/arsenicandoldlace

NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has an 86% on the Tomatometer and a 91% on the Popcornmeter.

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/arsenic-and-old-lace [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsenicandOldLace(film)
https://www.scripts.com/script/arsenicandoldlace3121