PHILADELPHIA STORY.
I regret but I don't catch the fun (if there is any...) in the joke telling there is two "F" in PHILADELPHIA, can someone explain ? Thanks.
shareHe's just making a bad pun as ice-breaking sales patter: everyone knows there are no "two f's" in Philadelphia, and then he adds, "If you know the story," to lead into the pun. The humor is that there's no real humor in it, as with groan-inducing "knock knock" jokes.
That's a bit of a goof in the screenplay. DI takes place nearly a year before the general public would have heard of "The Philadelphia Story," which didn't have its stage opening until March 1939.
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I just saw it again yesterday for the first time in years - I caught that, too. Plus Barbara Stanwyck's hair & wardrobe are far more 1944 than 1938. But the car she drove to the train station is actually a 1937 Lasalle - remember, the two auto insurance policies were for a Plymouth, and a Lasalle. I think Fred MacMurray's coupe was a 1937 Plymouth.
shareI think Fred MacMurray's coupe was a 1937 Plymouth.You're awfully close, according to the Internet Movie Car Database: they ID it as a '38 Dodge Business Coupe.
http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=36775
I guess as "top man" in sales, Neff could afford a new car (although, when he asks Charlie to wash it, he calls it "the heap").
Another little detail: I lived in Glendale for 20 years and, being familiar with the train station there, recognized that what they portrayed as the Glendale station wasn't. Turns out it was the Burbank station with a "Glendale" sign slapped on it.
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