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Arsenic and Old Lace

Film character

Elaine Harper

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944

played by Priscilla Lane

7.9/10 · 78,079 votes ComedyCrimeThriller

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The film

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!

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The name

Also in Arsenic and Old Lace

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    'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 played by John Alexander
  2. Arsenic and Old Lace
    Abby Brewster Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 played by Josephine Hull
  3. Arsenic and Old Lace
    Jonathan Brewster Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 played by Raymond Massey
  4. Arsenic and Old Lace
    Martha Brewster Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 played by Jean Adair
  5. Arsenic and Old Lace
    Mortimer Brewster Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 played by Cary Grant

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