{"id":17116,"date":"2017-01-18T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2017-01-18T06:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T10:01:55","slug":"13-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-arsenic-and-old-lace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17116","title":{"rendered":"13 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About &#8220;Arsenic and Old Lace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z011817arsenicandoldlace_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lou Lumenick<\/strong> and the <strong>New York Post<\/strong> present <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/10\/17\/13-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-arsenic-and-old-lace\/\"><strong>13 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About <em>Arsenic and Old Lace<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Broadway version was too good for his own good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main draw on Broadway was Boris Karloff as the critic\u2019s homicidal brother, who is described as looking \u201clike Boris Karloff\u2019\u2019 because of botched plastic surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Much to Karloff\u2019s chagrin, the producers insisted that he remain on Broadway while Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, as the aunts, and John Alexander, as their brother who thinks he\u2019s Teddy Roosevelt, reprised their roles in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant almost didn\u2019t have the part<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grant wasn\u2019t the first choice for the film, but Bob Hope wasn\u2019t available because of a schedule conflict (Capra needed to shoot the film just before reporting for World War II military duty).<\/p>\n<p>Grant, who donated his entire $100,000 salary to wartime charities, insisted, \u201cJimmy Stewart would have been much better [than me] in the film.\u2019\u2019 Stewart later starred opposite Josephine Hull in \u201cHarvey\u2019\u2019 \u2014 for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>An auteur filled Karloff\u2019s shoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Karloff left to head up a road company of \u201cArsenic and Old Lace,\u2019\u2019 he was replaced on Broadway by Erich von Stroheim. Karloff\u2019s rival Bela Lugosi played the part for five weeks onstage in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Lumenick and the New York Post present 13 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About Arsenic and Old Lace. \u00a0Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17118,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions\/17118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}