Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Otto Kesselring (21 July 1902 – 5 November 1967) was an American writer and playwright known best for his play Arsenic and Old Lace, written in 1939 and originally entitled "Bodies in Our Cellar." He was born in New York City to Henry and Frances Kesselring. His father's parent's were immigrants from Germany. His mother was an English Canadian. Kesselring spent much of his life in and around the theater. In 1922 he began teaching vocal music and d...
Complete Filmography
Arseniko kai palia dantela
1981
Writer
Members of an otherwise typical New York Brooklyn family are "tortured" by a kind of hereditary madness. In the meantime, the adopted nephew Mortimer ...
Arsenico e vecchi merletti
1969
Writer
Arsenic and Old Lace
1969
Theatre Play
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Arsenic & Old Lace
1962
Writer
1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Theatre Play
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...