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ARSENIC & OLD LACE ('44) ARSENIC & OLD LACE ('44) insert OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2g0956 ARSENIC & OLD LACE insert 1944 Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Capra, best image & ultra rare! Date Sold 6/9/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Insert Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic 1944 Frank Capra family relationship mental illness murder mystery black comedy ("From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring"; "Screen Play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein"; about a man with two crazy brothers, and people start dying, and he assumes it is his brothers, but he quickly finds out his kindly aunts are actually the culprits!) starring Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster), Raymond Massey (awkwardly playing the role written for Boris Karloff, who played it on the stage; as Jonathan Brewster), Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane (as Elaine Harper), Peter Lorre (as Dr. Einstein), Edward Everett Horton (as Mr. Witherspoon), James Gleason, Josephine Hull (as Aunt Abby Brewster), Jean Adair (as Aunt Martha Brewster), and John Alexander (as Theodore Brewster, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt!). Note that this classic was actually filmed in 1941, but due to contractual agreements with the producers of the Broadway version (see below), it wasn't released to theaters until 1944 (though, interestingly enough, the film was still released to U.S. troops between 1941 and 1944!). The "contractual agreements" referred to above was with star Boris Karloff, who owned a portion of the Broadway version. He rightly assumed that releasing the movie version would hurt the box office of the Broadway version, so he wisely had written into the contract that the movie could not be released until the Broadway play stopped running (which usually lasted at most six months). But because this play was so incredibly popular, it ran on Broadway for three years, which meant the movie could not be released for those three years! Finally, note that during those three years, Warner Bros. had parted ways with star Priscilla Lane, so when the movie was finally released in 1944, they barely mentioned her on the U.S. advertising for the movie (she is given small third billing on the one-sheet, behind Jack Carson, and she is not billed at all on several other posters)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have only auctioned three in all our years of auctioning and the last time was in 2008! Note also that this well-loved Frank Capra black comedy has a one-sheet which is dominated by a large "floating head" of Cary Grant. The insert has a far better image, showing a full-length Cary Grant hoisting a screaming Priscilla Lane on his shoulder! Condition: good to very good. The poster has a few smudges and pairs of staple holes and some of the pairs of staple holes at left and right have some discoloration (see our image). There is an extra slightly diagonal crease above the below the upper and lower horizontal folds. There is a pinhole in Grant's cheek to the left of his mouth, and there are some faint smudges in Lane's face at upper right. The poster could be displayed as is, or after paperbacking the ultra rare poster would look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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