September 23, 1944 –
Frank Capra’s screwball comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane. Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and John Alexander, finally gets it US general release on this date. The film was based on a hit play and had to wait to be released until after it Broadway run had ended.
Director Frank Capra enlisted in the U. S. Army Signal Corps in 1941 during filming. He received an extension of his order to report for active duty until late January 1942 so he could finish editing the picture.
