Arsenic and Old Lace - Revision history

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 It was adapted as an American film by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant and Boris Karloff. Released in 1944.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/]
-Broadcast as a TV drama in 1968, featuring Helen Hayes, Bob Crane and Lillian Gish[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064042/]]
+Broadcast as a TV drama in 1968, featuring Helen Hayes, Bob Crane and Lillian Gish[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064042/]
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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	It was adapted as an American film by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant and Boris Karloff. Released in 1944.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/]		It was adapted as an American film by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant and Boris Karloff. Released in 1944.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/]
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		+	Broadcast as a TV drama in 1968, featuring Helen Hayes, Bob Crane and Lillian Gish[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064042/]]

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==

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	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kesselring		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kesselring
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	''[[Trek]]'' 7(5):17, 1942.		''[[Trek]]'' 7(5):17, 1942.

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 Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Gif en Oujongnooiens]]'' ("Poison and spinsters") by [[W.H. Grobler]]. Published as a performance text by [[DALRO]] in 1970. (The first run of 200 copies of the [[DALRO]] text initially had the name [[A.F.H. van Dyk]] as the translator, but this was apparently then blacked out, and [[W.H. Grobler]] was substituted.)
-It was adapted as an American film by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant and Boris Karloff. Released in 1944.
+It was adapted as an American film by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant and Boris Karloff. Released in 1944.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/]
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-The play was first performed on January 10, 1941, directed by Bretaigne Windust.
+The play was first performed on January 10, 1941, at the Fulton Theatre, Broadway, directed by Bretaigne Windust.
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 : Performed in the [[Port Elizabeth City Hall]] May 22 - 24, directed by [[Raymond Davidson]] for [[PEMADS]]. Mrs [[Gibson Lochhead]] took the role of "Abby" and Mrs [[Zilla Baird]] played "Martha". The business managers and prop-builders were [[Harold Davidson]] and [[Dave Berg]].
 : Staged (in [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Gif en Oujongnooiens]]'' - ?) in June by the [[Libertas Theatre Club]] in [[The Cellar]] in Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, directed by [[Esther van Ryswyk]], with [[Jane Turner]] (Abby), [[Marie van Heerden]] (Martha), [[John Kitson]] (Dr Harper), [[Rita Sierts-Ehlers]], [[Fred le Roux]], [[Piet Retief]], [[Louis Eksteen]], [[Pieter de Swardt]] and [[P. van Aarde]].
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 [[NELM]] catalogue: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 3. 31.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 == Sources ==
-Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_(play)].
 ''[[Trek]]'' 7(5):17, 1942.

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	Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Gif en Oujongnooiens]]'' ("Poison and spinsters") by [[W.H. Grobler]]. Published as a performance text by [[DALRO]] in 1970. (The first run of 200 copies of the [[DALRO]] text initially had the name [[A.F.H. van Dyk]] as the translator, but this was apparently then blacked out, and [[W.H. Grobler]] was substituted.)		Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Gif en Oujongnooiens]]'' ("Poison and spinsters") by [[W.H. Grobler]]. Published as a performance text by [[DALRO]] in 1970. (The first run of 200 copies of the [[DALRO]] text initially had the name [[A.F.H. van Dyk]] as the translator, but this was apparently then blacked out, and [[W.H. Grobler]] was substituted.)
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		+	In 1944 it was adapted as an American film by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant.

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==