Arsenic and Old Lace (also called the Attention Cocktail or the Atty) is a classic cocktail with its origins in the 1910's made with gin, crème de violette, dry vermouth and absinthe.

[2] "The Atty" first appears under the name "Arsenic and Old Lace" in 1941, published in the Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion[3] by former Broadway producer Crosby Gaige.

[4] Around the same time, Joseph Kesselring's play Arsenic and Old Lace opened on Broadway in January 1941.

The timing strongly implies a connection, though it is speculative to say whether Gaige was the one who renamed the cocktail.

A similar drink with orange juice in place of absinthe is called the "Jupiter cocktail".