Character: Abby Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Played by Josephine Hull

Character Information

Tags associated with this character: aunt, murderer, crazy person

Theme associated with this character: The Aunts

Other characters associated with this theme: Martha Brewster

Tags associated with this theme:

arguing | augmentation | calm | cheerful | cleaning | conversing | cut from film | dark | delicate | digging | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gentle | harmonic sequence | hurrying | intimidating | knocking | march | mode mixture | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | on-screen music | parallel 63s | patriotic tune | pedal tone | pleasant | plotting | room | running | scurrying | snooping | source and scoring overlap | staring | street | tense | upbeat | walking | watching | whispering | whistling

Theme associated with this character: Happy Land

Other characters associated with this theme: Martha Brewster

Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 11th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | appoggiatura | bugle call | calm | cheerful | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | cleaning | conversing | countermelody | creaking | cut from film | direct modulation | dirge | dramatic | evaded cadence | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | gentle | happy | hymn | hymn-like | kissing | magical | mysterious | ominous | on-screen music | opening | ostinato | parallel period | pc set | peaceful | pedal tone | plotting | room | score to source | sequence | singing | sneaking | source music | stinger | street | suspension | tender | tense | transcribed by ear | upbeat | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale