Harvey (play)
My friend Harvey ( in engl. Original Harvey ) is a comedy in three acts by Mary Chase, premiered on November 1, 1944 at 48th Street Theatre in New York. The spectacle that the author initially under the title The White Rabbit. A Comedy in Three Acts, Five Scenes ( 1943) had published, was very successful: It ran a little more than five years on Broadway and reached 1775 performances. The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
In Germany the play was first placed in April 1950 at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin on the stage; the German transmission was by Alfred Polgar.
Special kind of fame piece by Henry Koster's film version from 1950, My friend Harvey with James Stewart in the lead role. There were other films of the literary text, several of which originated in Germany. So took about Heinz Riihmann the lead role in a version by 1970.
Action
When the endearingly quirky Elwood P. Dowd at a party at his friend Harvey imagines a Puka in the form of about two meters tall, white, invisible rabbits, decides his sister Veta to be hospitalized him to a sanatorium to the family from further embarrassment to preserve. However, it is admitted even by mistake. After this error has been cleared, you can stroll down the search for Elwood and his invisible friend. Elwood appeared in the sanatorium on, to search for Harvey, and manages to make an impression on some doctors. Only shortly before the injection, which should make him "normal" again, Veta accepted the invisible friend of her brother.
More films
- BRD 1959 ( WDR Television, Black And White, 105 min); Directed by Imo Moszkowicz
- BRD 1967 ( WDR Television, Black and White, 95 min); Director: Rolf von Sydow
- BRD 1970 ( film and television production Georg Richter, 95 min); Written and directed by Kurt Wilhelm
- USA 1972 ( Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions ); Directed by Fielder Cook, Screenwriter: Mary Chase and Jacqueline Babbin
- BRD 1985 ( Sender Freies Berlin, 123 min); Director: Wolfgang Spier