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No. The Philadelphia Story is based on a 1939 Broadway play of the same name by American playwright Philip Barry [1896-1949]. American author and screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart [1894-1980] is credited with the screenplay adaptation.

Yes. That was Cole Porter's "I've Got My Eyes on You."

"The Philadelphia Story" was the name of the article Spy Magazine was planning to publish about Tracy [Katharine Hepburn]'s wedding. It's mentioned in the early scene when Macaulay Connor [James Stewart] gets his assignment from Sidney Kidd [Henry Daniell].