Harvey (film) - Remakes and Other Uses

Remakes and Other Uses

The play/film was made for television several times:

• 1958, in a version starring Art Carney as Elwood, and Marion Lorne, Larry Blyden, Elizabeth Montgomery, Fred Gwynne, Charlotte Rae, and Jack Weston.
• 1970, in a version for West German television, with Heinz Rühmann as Elwood.
• 1972, in a version also starring James Stewart and featuring Helen Hayes as his sister Veta and Jesse White reprising his role as Duane Wilson and Fred Gwynne.
• 1985, in a version for West German television, with Harald Juhnke as Elwood and Elisabeth Wiedemann as Veta.
• 1998, starring Harry Anderson and Swoosie Kurtz in the Elwood and Veta roles along with Fred Gwynne, Richard Mulligan and Madeline Kahn.

In August 2009 it was announced that Steven Spielberg was to direct a remake of the film, with production beginning in 2010. The film would be a co-production between 20th Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, and novelist Jonathan Tropper had written the adaptation for the new version. Spielberg approached Tom Hanks and later Robert Downey, Jr. for the lead role, but in December 2009 Spielberg opted out after a dispute over his vision for the project.

In addition, the Jimmy Stewart Museum, based in Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania, presents the Harvey Award to a distinguished celebrity tied to Jimmy Stewart's spirit of humanitarianism. Past recipients include Robert Wagner, Shirley Jones, Janet Leigh, and Rich Little.

A 1971 children's film, "Mr Horatio Nibbles", also starred a giant talking rabbit, visible only to one person.

The first episode of 1975 TV series The Invisible Man featured a scene with an invisible rabbit (wearing a visible collar) called "Harvey" in a cage in a laboratory.

A scene in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit has a barfly confessing, "I seen the rabbit" (meaning Roger, who is being sought). He puts his arm around an invisible presence and says, "Say hello ... Harvey!"

In 2001, the fantasy and comedy-drama film Donnie Darko was released, in which the title character is haunted by a six-foot tall man in a rabbit outfit named Frank.