Norman Lloyd (DeWitt Pynchon) and Marsha Hunt (Evie O'Connor) both became centenarians. Lloyd celebrated his 100th birthday on November 8, 2014 while Hunt celebrated hers on October 17, 2017.
This film's initial telecast in Philadelphia took place Monday 21 October 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), followed by Los Angeles Friday 27 December 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); in San Francisco it first aired 16 October 1958 on KGO (Channel 7); in New York City it finally made its television debut 16 December 1960 on the Late, Late Show on WCBS (Channel 2).
After John bails Edgar out of his breech-of-promise complaint, Edgar then offers him his friendship, just like "Damon and Pythias."
The story of Damon and Pythias is a legend in Greek historic writings illustrating the Pythagorean ideal of friendship. Pythias is accused of and charged with plotting against the tyrannical Dionysius I of Syracuse. Pythias requests of Dionysius to be allowed to settle his affairs. Dionysius agrees, on the condition that Pythias' friend, Damon, be held hostage and, should Pythias not return, be executed in his stead. When Pythias returns, Dionysius, amazed by the love and trust in their friendship, frees them both. Damon and Pythias came to be an idiomatic expression for "true friendship."
In the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940), Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) remarks, with great irony, that C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and George Kittredge (John Howard) are just like Damon and Pythias.
The story of Damon and Pythias is a legend in Greek historic writings illustrating the Pythagorean ideal of friendship. Pythias is accused of and charged with plotting against the tyrannical Dionysius I of Syracuse. Pythias requests of Dionysius to be allowed to settle his affairs. Dionysius agrees, on the condition that Pythias' friend, Damon, be held hostage and, should Pythias not return, be executed in his stead. When Pythias returns, Dionysius, amazed by the love and trust in their friendship, frees them both. Damon and Pythias came to be an idiomatic expression for "true friendship."
In the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940), Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) remarks, with great irony, that C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and George Kittredge (John Howard) are just like Damon and Pythias.
A Letter for Evie (1946) is based on "The Adventure of a Ready Letter Writer," a 1920 story in The Saturday Evening Post by Blanche Brace (13 Nov 1920). The story is a spin off of Cyrano de Bergerac, updated to a modern setting.