Laura Hope Crews was an American actress. Although she is best remembered today for her later work as a character actress in motion pictures of the 1930s, she also was prolific on stage; among her films roles was the role of Aunt Pittypat in Gone with the Wind.
Merely Mary Ann (1903): l to r Ada Dwyer, Eleanor Robson, Laura H. Crews
Crews and John Drew Jr. in Much Ado About Nothing (1913)
Erskine Sanford, Dudley Digges and Crews in the Theatre Guild production of A. A. Milne's Mr. Pim Passes By (1921)
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the 1944 film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.
Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster
Erich von Stroheim replaced Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster in the original Broadway production.
Jezinky a bezinky, a Czech translation of the play in performance by the Brno City Theatre in 2012