I saw Cary Grant when he was going around doing a little series of college tours, and somebody asked him about “Arsenic and Old Lace,” and he winced, and said how much he HATED his performance in it. I guess it means he wound up disliking the resulting film itself. He sure seemed to exhibit some disgust/embarrassment about it.
He donated his entire salary from that movie to British War Relief, I think it was about $200,000 at the time which would be about $20 Million in today’s money.
I don’t see why he should have hated his performance in “Arsenic and Old Lace”, its a wonderful movie.