Barry, who was educated at both Yale and Harvard Universities, said he wrote the part of Tracy Lord specifically as a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn. “The Philadelphia Story” tells the tale of a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist. “The Philadelphia Story” is a 1939 American comic play by Philip Barry, one of America’s most prolific playwrights who had 23 plays produced on Broadway between 19, when he died of a heart attack in his New York Park Avenue apartment at the age of 53. It is not often that one can say he met and interviewed the person on whom a hit Broadway play and two Oscar-nominated and/or Oscar-winning Hollywood films were based, but that is the case here. Our community theater reviewer, Hugh Hunter, wrote a rave review last week of “The Philadelphia Story,” which ran at the Allens Lane Theater until Jan.
Katharine Hepburn (right) who bore a physical resemblance to Helen Hope Montgomery Scott (left), won a “Best Actress” Oscar portraying Tracy Lord, based on Scott, in 1940.
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