 SPOILER: In the play, Mr. Witherspoon, the caretaker of Happydale  Sanitarium, is himself poisoned with a glass of wine by the two  aunts, but the censors forced the studio to change this because it  would have meant that the two aunts would have gotten away with  murder. However, Edward Everett Horton (qv), who played  Witherspoon in the movie, did pose for a publicity photograph with a  glass of wine in his hand.