Harvey (1950) | |
| Director(s) | Henry Koster |
| Producer(s) | John Beck |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Top Topics | Alcohol, Based on Play, Screwball Comedy |
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Harvey (1950) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Henry Koster and produced by John Beck.
SYNOPSIS
Elwood is a good-natured, slightly sloshed man whose faithful companion is a 6-feet-3.5-inches-tall rabbit that only he can see. When his sister Veta (Hull) tries to have him committed, she's taken in instead. It's up to Elwood and Harvey to straighten out the mess. Stewart in his best amiable, bumbling mode.
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Academy Awards 1950 --- Ceremony Number 23 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | James Stewart | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress | Josephine Hull | Won |
BlogHub Articles:
Getting to Know Peggy Dow: Harvey and Beyond
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 24, 2020 From 4 Star Filmssource: IMDb The L.A. Times headline in 1951 read: “Peggy Dow Sketches Future as She Quits Hollywood to Wed” Many people recall how Grace Kelly famously married Prince Rainier of Monaco and from thenceforward left her stirling Hollywood career behind out of a sense of love and duty. That... Read full article
Turning a Page on film books: Anita arrives, James Harvey leaves
By carole_and_co on May 31, 2020 From Carole & Co.It's still hard to believe a book was dedicated to me, but it happened some years ago when Michelle Morgan wrote "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star." (I assisted her with research at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library.)Since becoming a Lombard fan three and ... Read full article
Becker (1998) s01e18 – Saving Harvey Cohen
on Mar 23, 2020 From The Stop ButtonThe episode plays like writer Eric Cohen really likes ?Becker.? Everyone in the cast gets something to do; even if it?s a little subplot, it?s a complete one. The main plot has Becker (Ted Danson) reluctantly caring for a sick stray cat, including some really obvious stuff when he takes it to the ve... Read full article
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – with Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey
By Greg Orypeck on Mar 10, 2016 From Classic Film FreakShare This! An idea once unbelievable. . . . Then unthinkable. . . . Now all too possible. . . .? A chilling classic. In the recent war in?Iraq?and the current one in?Afghanistan, the greatest threat and concern has been and is?torture.? Although torture had also been a concern in the?Korean confl... Read full article
Josephine Hull in HARVEY
By Aurora on Apr 15, 2014 From Once Upon a ScreenJosephine Sherwood decided to study drama at Radcliffe College because she couldn’t fight the urge to perform. ?The Newtonville, Massachusetts native began?her journey to become one of the greats of the American theater in a stock company in Boston. ?Hers was not the built of a glamour queen, ... Read full article
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Quotes from
Dr. Chumley: To what purpose.
Elwood P. Dowd: Well, you've heard the expression; 'his face would stop a clock'.
Dr. Chumley: Mm-hmm.
Elwood P. Dowd: Well, Harvey can look at your clock... and stop it. And you can go anywhere you like, with anyone you like, and stay as long as you like, and when you get back... not one minute will have ticked by.
Dr. Sanderson: It sounds funny, but I'll miss this place. I guess I'll miss a lot of things around here.
Miss Kelly: You will?
Dr. Sanderson: You won't laugh?
Miss Kelly: Of course not.
Dr. Sanderson: You know how it is working around people day after day. You sort of get attached to them.
Miss Kelly: I know, Lyman.
Dr. Sanderson: It may be ridiculous, but I'm gonna miss every one of the psychos, and the neuros, and the schizos in the place.
Veta Louise Simmons: Oh good! Nobody here but people.
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Facts about
Although James Stewart is 6'4'', he refers to Harvey as being 6'3 1/2'' tall in the film and looks up at him during the entire film. That's because this is Harvey's height in the original play by Mary Chase. In a 1990 interview, Stewart said that he had decided that for the film, Harvey was going to be 6'8'', so that he could indeed look up at him.
The original Broadway production of "Harvey" by Mary Chase opened on November 1, 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre, ran for 1775 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1945.
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