“Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.”—Elwood P. Dowd (played by James Stewart) in Harvey (1950), written by Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney and Myles Connolly (uncredited), based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Chase
(Three days ago marked the centennial of the birth of James Stewart. One of the central roles in his extensive and much-honored filmography is gentle tippler Elwood P. Dowd, an eccentric convinced that he has a white rabbit friend (“Six feet three and a half inches--now let's stick to the facts”) named Harvey. On stage and screen, Stewart made this treatment of genial noncomformity a classic, as he did with so much other material.)
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Mike
One of my all time favorite quotes!
Had the honor of seeing Jimmy Stewart do it at the stage revival several years back.
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