Original vintage advertising poster for the play “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring; presented by Berlin International Theatre.
Joseph Otto Kesselring was born in New York City on June 21, 1902. His career was always linked in some way to the theatre. At the age of twenty, he began teaching music and directing amateur theatre productions at Bethel College in Newton, Kansas; at twenty-three, he left academia to pursue acting, writing short stories, and producing vaudeville plays; and at thirty-one—one year after his marriage to Charlotte Elsheimer—he devoted himself to writing, continuing to pen short stories and initiating his career as a playwright. Between 1933 and his death in 1967, he authored twelve plays—mostly light comedies. His first play to be produced, Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men, premiered in 1933, and four later plays were produced on Broadway:There’s Wisdom in Women (1935), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Four Twelves Are 48 (1951), and Mother of That Wisdom (1963).
This poster’s performance took place at Crump Hall in Berlin through the 25th-29th of April 1963. The poster is in phenomenal condition. Country of issue: Germany.
Dimensions: 20”x28” - Approx 800-850pcs