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Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Josephine Hull, and James Stewart stand in a parlor set with an empty armchair in the film Harvey (1950), directed by Henry Koster.
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Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Josephine Hull, and James Stewart stand in a parlor set with an empty armchair in the film Harvey (1950), directed by Henry Koster.
scene from Harvey From left, Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Josephine Hull, and James Stewart in the film Harvey (1950).

Harvey

film by Koster [1950]
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Harvey, American comedy film, released in 1950, that is based on Mary Chaseā€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name about a manā€™s unusual friendship. James Stewart portrayed Elwood P. Dowd, an amiable fellow with a fondness for drink who travels everywhere with his best friendā€”a giant rabbit named Harvey. Though Elwood describes Harvey as a pooka (a shape-shifting spirit of Celtic folklore), he seems oblivious to the fact that no one else can see...

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