http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(play)
And a book that i have which talks you about this film.
And a book that i have which talks you about this film.
A famous
theater critic, Mortimer Brewster, has secretly married the beautiful Elaine.
The two come to visit the charming Mortimer aunts, Abby and Martha, there
discover with horror that the elderly are dedicated to poison old men left to
those buried in the basement. In the house is also a mentally disturbed who
thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt and, last but not least, are Jonathan, brother
of Mortimer and dangerous murderer.
Frank Capra Director- Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy, May 18, 1897 - La
Quinta, California, USA, September 3, 1991
Jean Adair
as Aunt- June 13, 1873 - May 11, 1953
Biographies:
Frank Capra:
Born in Sicily under the name of Francesco Rosario Capra, the director emigrated to the United States at the age of six years. Once there, Frank began his studies at the California Institute of Technology and became obtaining the degree in chemical engineering.
Capara began his career in silent films, beginning to work as a writer for comic short films of Hal Roach and Mack Sennett. But seeing his great talent, great comedian Harry Langdon required its services to address some success as Man Cannon and Long Pants.
The thing with Langdon did not end too well and the director entered a new phase with a contract at Columbia. After some projects with these studies, the great consecration of Capra came in the film It Happened One Night which won five Oscars, including best director and best film, and it was a blockbuster.
From here Capa specialized in a genre style social comedy, his best known films are Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, Live as you! and Mr. Smith.
Finally Frank Capra died in La Quinta, California of a heart attack when he was sleeping at the age of 94.
Cary Grant:
Born to a poor family in his youth he joined a theater group with which toured the United States in 1920. After emigrating to this country, worked in several Broadway theater companies, with uniform success.
In 1932 rolled This is the night, his first film, in which he played a supporting role but that was the beginning of a brilliant career. During the following years he became one of the leading actors in Hollywood, especially thanks to his aristocratic bearing and his talent for comedy. Bringing Up Baby (1938) by Howard Hawks, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor, both played by Katharine Hepburn, were the two films that launched him to stardom.
The many films in which he participated during these years include The Awful Truth (1937), The bride was it (1940), Suspicion (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), Monkey Business (1953), to Catch a Thief (1955) and With North by Northwest (1959). In the 1960s he starred in Charade (1962), Stanley Donen, and Three's Company (1966), Walters. He retired in 1966 and in 1970 received an honorary Oscar for his entire career.
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I liked a lot the film, and is very funny. The english is not difficult but they speak very fast.
My favorite scene is a very funny scene, I think the funniest of the film.
Biographies:
Frank Capra:
Born in Sicily under the name of Francesco Rosario Capra, the director emigrated to the United States at the age of six years. Once there, Frank began his studies at the California Institute of Technology and became obtaining the degree in chemical engineering.
Capara began his career in silent films, beginning to work as a writer for comic short films of Hal Roach and Mack Sennett. But seeing his great talent, great comedian Harry Langdon required its services to address some success as Man Cannon and Long Pants.
The thing with Langdon did not end too well and the director entered a new phase with a contract at Columbia. After some projects with these studies, the great consecration of Capra came in the film It Happened One Night which won five Oscars, including best director and best film, and it was a blockbuster.
From here Capa specialized in a genre style social comedy, his best known films are Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, Live as you! and Mr. Smith.
Finally Frank Capra died in La Quinta, California of a heart attack when he was sleeping at the age of 94.
Cary Grant:
Born to a poor family in his youth he joined a theater group with which toured the United States in 1920. After emigrating to this country, worked in several Broadway theater companies, with uniform success.
In 1932 rolled This is the night, his first film, in which he played a supporting role but that was the beginning of a brilliant career. During the following years he became one of the leading actors in Hollywood, especially thanks to his aristocratic bearing and his talent for comedy. Bringing Up Baby (1938) by Howard Hawks, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor, both played by Katharine Hepburn, were the two films that launched him to stardom.
The many films in which he participated during these years include The Awful Truth (1937), The bride was it (1940), Suspicion (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), Monkey Business (1953), to Catch a Thief (1955) and With North by Northwest (1959). In the 1960s he starred in Charade (1962), Stanley Donen, and Three's Company (1966), Walters. He retired in 1966 and in 1970 received an honorary Oscar for his entire career.
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I liked a lot the film, and is very funny. The english is not difficult but they speak very fast.
My favorite scene is a very funny scene, I think the funniest of the film.
In this
scene the star or main character Cary Grant tries to know what happens with the
person who is in the drawer and the aunts of Mortimer say it like something obvious and like it
isn’t important so is very funny. In this scene we know why there is an ad in
the entrance of the house that says if there is anyone who want a place for
live go to this house. My favourite sentence in this scene is this:
Mortimer-Do
you wish to tell me how he died?
Aunts-Oh,
Mortimer, do not be so nosy. That gentleman died because he drank a glass of
wine that had poison
Mortimer-And
how had poison in the glass?
Aunts-We put it
in the wine because it tastes less. In the tea has a very special taste
