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...Robeaud. This impostor, an infantryman chosen by Napoleon's secret police to stand in for the Emperor at various ceremonial and public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning. The real Napoleon secretly sailed to Rio de Janeiro and eventually returned to Europe, where he lived as a diamond merchant in Verona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Top Bananas | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...From Your Show of Shows 6 p.m., 9:45; Arsenic and Old Lace 7:40, weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...withdrawn Detroit teenager, Moriarty was hooked by a high school production of Arsenic and Old Lace. "My whole identity became 'an actor,' "he says."It was a 24-hour obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Uncommon Apprentice | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

SATURDAY: Arsenic and Old Lace. 1944. Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, and Peter Lorre head a very apt cast in Frank Capra's screwball film of Joseph Kesselring's very funny play. CH.56...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

Bill Kuntz '72 is a former undergraduate producer whose credits include The Most Happy Fella, She Loves Me, Arsenic and Old Lace, Funny Girl, Subject to Fits, and Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead...

Author: By Bill Kuntz, | Title: Reviewing the Reviewers | 1/15/1974 | See Source »

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