Robert Alexander Montgomery, brother of Katharine Hepburn’s character, Helen Hope Montgomery Scott  in The Philadelphia Story, never made it into the 1940 film, writes David Nelson Wren in his 2017 book, “Androssan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line,” as featured at mainlinetoday.com.

 A lot of other locales never made it in either over concerns the audiences would find the terms unrecognizable.

So original movie-goers never learned about Radnor, Rittenhouse Square, Devon, St. Davids, Bryn Mawr College and scrapple.

Family names like Cadwalader, Drexel, Biddle and Cassatt were also cut from the film.  Chester County’s Unionville, did survive, however.

Robert Montgomery and all those local references did make it into the stage play by Phillip Barry.

Barry was a regular welcome guest at the Androssan estate in Villanova and wrote two plays based on his relationship with the family, The other was “Holiday, turned into a motion picture in 1938.

Hardbound copies of Barry’s plays—personally inscribed to Hope and Edgar—were found in the Androssan library.

Nothing in The Philadelphia Story was shot on location at Ardrossan.

It was shot on a soundstage in six weeks, coming in under budget.

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