Character: Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Played by Priscilla Lane
 Character Information


Tags associated with this character: leading lady, bride


Theme associated with this character: Here Comes the Bride




Other characters associated with this theme: Mortimer Brewster
Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 13th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | agitated | arguing | arriving | calling | calm | cemetery | cheerful | Chinese | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | comical | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | cut from film | dark | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | direct modulation | embracing | entering | exotic | familiar tune | flirting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | greeting | half-diminished 7th chord | hurried | hurrying | hymn-like | intervallic expansion | inversion | kissing | office | on-screen music | open fifth | parallelism | peeking | pleasant | pump-up modulation | religious | romantic | room | running | rushed | rushing | scored source music | score to source | self-borrowing | sequence | smiling | sneaking | source music | source to score | stereotype | street | suspension | tense | trick-or-treating | upbeat | whistling | winking

Theme associated with this character: The Old Maid