Additionally to Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, the film likewise starred Josephine Hull and Jean Adair as the Brewster Sisters, Abby & Martha, severally. Two Hull & Adair reprised their roles from either a original 1941 stage production when well as John Alexander as Teddy.

the film concerns a theatre-hating drama critic and confirmed bachelor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) who in his wedding day must cope with his off-the-wall personal, especially his ii aged aunts who live in a old personal zero in Brooklyn.

Mortimer's aunty come "kindly" serving lonely old bachelors elderberry wine poisoned with arsenic and then burying the bodies in the basement. His immature brother Teddy thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and yells "Charge!" when heading higher a step (fallowing Teddy Roosevelt's 'charge up San Juan Hill'). Mortimer's more brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey), a cherished murderer whose face resembles that of Frankenstein's creature (as portrayed by Boris Karloff, a comparison frequently made in the film's dialogue; this was originally a self-referential joke, as Karloff himself played the character in the stage production), arrives with a surgeon, Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre) in towage. Sooner or later, Mortimer is overjoyed to discover that he is non biologically related these harebrained population, & is actually the boy of a sea cook.