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The play by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent opened at the Cort Theatre in New York on 9 January 1940 and closed on 3 August 1940 after 243 performances. Don DeFore, Ivan F. Simpson, Minna Phillips, and Regina Wallace originated their movie roles in the play. The opening night cast also included Leon Ames as Joe Ferguson, author/director Elliott Nugent as Tommy Turner, and Gene Tierney as Patricia Stanley.
Don DeFore created the role of Wally Myers in the original Broadway play. When this movie was remade as the musical, She's Working Her Way Through College (1952), DeFore took the role based on the Joe Ferguson character.
The movie had its world premiere on 12 March 1942 in Columbus, Ohio, the location of Ohio State University, the school both James Thurber and Elliott Nugent attended.
Gene Tierney starred in the Broadway production as Patricia Stanley; she was to be loaned out to Warner Bros. but was cast in John Ford's Tobacco Road (1941) instead.
Midwestern University is a thinly veiled reference to James Thurber's Alma Mater The Ohio State University. There are numerous examples of OSU traditions in the film, including the singing of "We don't give a 'Darn' for the whole state of Michigan", notably changing one word to appease censors. In addition, the team is called the Big Red Team, matching OSU's scarlet, and the marching band has uniforms that are identical to the uniforms still proudly worn by TBDBlTL (The Best Damn Band In The Land). 'The Big Game' featured in the film is against none other than OSU's biggest rival University of Michigan. Coincidentally, OSU Football won their first national championship in 1942, the year this film was released.
"Prof. Tommy Turner: [Reading Vanzetti's writing sample, at 1:35:40] If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man, as now we do by accident. Our words - our lives - our pains - nothing! The taking of our lives - lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler - all! That last moment belongs to us - that agony is our triumph."
"Ellen Turner: You'd better take a hot water bottle to bed with you. Prof. Tommy Turner: Nice of you to arrange for a substitute."
