Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. The story is about a man whose best friend is a "pooka" named Harvey—in the form of a six-foot, three and one half-inch-tall rabbit.

Hull's performance earned her an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress; Stewart's portrayal earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

This film was ranked #35 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.

Harvey is a play by Mary Chase. It won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is the story of likeable man and his imaginary friend "Harvey", a 6-foot three-and-a-half-inch-tall rabbit. The play starred Frank Fay and Josephine Hull. The play also had a production in 1949 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre.

It was later made into a film by the same name starring Hull and James Stewart who also played the role of Elwood P. Dowd on stage in London for six months. There were also a couple of television versions:

• In 1958, Art Carney of The Honeymooners played the lead character in a television special. The supporting players included several then-or-future stars, including Marion Lorne as Veta, Elizabeth Montgomery as Miss Kelly, Larry Blyden as Dr. Sanderson, and Fred Gwynne as Wilson. Charlotte Rae and Jack Weston were also in the cast.
• In 1998, Harry Anderson of Night Court reprised the character in a made-for-TV movie. Other notable players included Swoosie Kurtz as Veta, Jessica Hecht as Miss Kelly, Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Chumley, and TV veteran William Schallert as Judge Gaffney.

Both James Stewart (I) and Jesse White (I) played the same roles in the original Broadway production, the 1970 Broadway revival, and the 1950 film version as well as this television production. White created the role of Duane Wilson in the Broadway premiere, while Stewart took over for Frank Fay as Elwood P. Dowd later in the run of the play.

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. Written by Dale Roloff

An all-star cast enlivens this new adaptation of Mary Chase's hilarious Pulitzer Prize® winning comedy, led by Harry Anderson in the role of its unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, (Swoosie Kurtz) and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley (Leslie Nielsen), head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates. After firing Sanderson for his misdiagnosis, Dr. Chumley sets out in pursuit of Elwood, completely forgetting poor Veta, who is left to manage her own escape from confinement in the home! Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment