My friend Harvey

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Harvey (Engl. In the original Harvey ) is a comedy in three acts by Mary Chase , which premiered on November 1, 1944 at 48th Street Theater in New York. The play, which the author initially called The White Rabbit. A comedy released in Three Acts, Five Scenes (1943) was hugely successful: it ran on Broadway for a little over five years and reached 1775 performances. The piece was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.

In Germany the play was first staged in April 1950 at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin; the German translation comes from Alfred Polgar .

The play gained particular fame through Henry Koster's 1950 film adaptation with James Stewart in the leading role. Further film versions of the literary model followed, several of which were made in Germany. Heinz Rühmann , for example, took on the leading role in a version from 1970 . My friend Harvey is also the subject of the song of the same name by the German band Rodgau Monotones from 1985.

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When the adorable-quirky Elwood P. Dowd introduces his friend Harvey, a Puka in the shape of a six-foot-tall, white, invisible rabbit at a party , his sister Veta decides to have him admitted to a sanatorium to protect the family from others To keep embarrassment. However, she is accidentally instructed herself. After this mistake has been cleared up, one goes in search of Elwood and his invisible friend. Elwood shows up at the sanatorium to look for Harvey and manages to impress some doctors. Only shortly before the injection, which is supposed to make him "normal" again, does Veta accept her brother's invisible friend.

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