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Jean Adair (born Violet McNaughton, June 13, 1873 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; died May 11, 1953 in New York City) was an actress. Although she worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair), she made several film appearances late in her career, most notably as one of the misguided murdering aunts of Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace, a role she originated in the Broadway play.

Filmography

Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) as Aunt Martha Brewster
Living in a Big Way (1947) as Abigail Morgan
Something in the Wind (1947) as Aunt Mary Collins
The Naked City (1948)

Broadway productions

It's a Boy! (1922-?)
The Jay Walker (1926)
Devils (1926)
The Good Fellow (1926)
Machinal (1928)
That Ferguson Family (1928-9)
Scarlet Pages (1929)
Everything's Jake (1930)
Rock Me, Julie (1931)
Blessed Event (1932)
Best Years (1932)
Black Sheep (1932)
The Show Off (1932-3)
For Services Rendered (1933)
Murder at the Vanities (1933-4)
Broomsticks, Amen! (1934)
Picnic (1934-?)
Mid-West (1936-?)
Sun Kissed (1937-?)
On Borrowed Time (1938)
Morning's at Seven (1939-40)
Goodbye in the Night (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941-4)
Star-Spangled Family (1945)
The Next Half Hour (1945)
Detective Story (1949-50)
Bell, Book and Candle (1950-1)
The Crucible (1953)

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