Radio adaptations Arsenic and Old Lace was adapted as a half-hour radio play for the November 25, 1946, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Boris Karloff and Eddie Albert. A one-hour adaptation was broadcast on January 25, 1948 on the Ford Theatre, with Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and John Alexander reprising their roles. See also List of American films of 1944 Amy Archer-Gilligan – a nursing home owner accused of murdering elderly men in her care 1910–1917 Black Widow murders – a real murder case whose events were compared to the fictional murders in the film Notes References Bibliography Stout, Kathryn and Richard. Movies as Literature. Wilmington, Delaware: Design-A-Study, 2002. (Study questions on the plot, pp. 41–46.) External links 1944 films 1944 comedy films 1944 crime films 1940s American films 1940s black comedy films 1940s comedy mystery films 1940s comedy thriller films 1940s crime comedy films 1940s crime thriller films 1940s English-language films 1940s screwball comedy films 1940s serial killer films American black comedy films American black-and-white films American comedy mystery films American comedy thriller films American crime comedy films American crime thriller films American films based on plays American screwball comedy films American serial killer films Film noir Films about disability Films directed by Frank Capra Films scored by Max Steiner Films set in Brooklyn Films with screenplays by Julius J. Epstein Films with screenplays by Philip G. Epstein Warner Bros. films Works about plastic surgery