Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. Browse Theatre Writers. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey -- a pooka, who is a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit. When Elwood begins introducing Harvey around town, his embarrassed sister, Veta Louise, and her daughter, Myrtle Mae, determine to commit Elwood to a sanitarium. A mistake is made, however, and Veta is committed rather than Elwood! Eventually, the mistake is realized, and a frantic search begins for Elwood and the invisible pooka, which ends with Elwood appearing, voluntarily, at the sanitarium.
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Show Guides Show Guides. Search all shows. She defends Harvey, and in doing so changes what is now acceptable and accepted in their family. She sets the terms: Harvey is now real.
Elwood wanted to know someone named Harvey, so Harvey appeared. The expression follows the desire, in a way that echoes queer life. Definition always comes later, and experience first. This indefinability of and inability to ignore Harvey is at the center of why he works so well—seven decades after he hit the big screen—as a metaphor for queerness. Everyone seems to want to define him, and he eludes definition.
Is Harvey real? Where does he come from? Does it matter? He exists. Raymond Sanderson as Dr. Raymond Sanderson. Nana Bryant Mrs. Hazel Chumley as Mrs. Hazel Chumley. Grayce Mills Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet as Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet as Grace Mills. Clem Bevans Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer as Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer.
Harvey Harvey as Harvey. Ida Moore Mrs. McGiff as Mrs. McGiff scenes deleted. Henry Koster. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees and a few privileged others on occasion also. After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues.
Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places. The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play Did you know Edit. Trivia At the suggestion of James Stewart , the director changed many shots to make them wider so that "Harvey" would be in the frame. Goofs In the daytime scenes at Chumley's Rest, shadows are seen of the actors and props that clearly go against the dominant natural light. Quotes Elwood P.
Crazy credits At the very end Harvey opens a door and the words at the bottom of the screen say "Harvey as Himself. Soundtracks Waltz No. User reviews Review. Top review.
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