Editing Harvey (1950 film) (section)

==Reception==
[[File:James Stewart Harvey 1950 Promo Still.jpg|thumb|James Stewart in a promotional photo advertising the film]]
Reviews from critics were mostly positive. [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that "so freely flowing is the screenplay which Mrs. Chase and Oscar Brodney have prepared, so vivid and droll is the direction which Henry Koster has given it and, particularly, so darling is the acting of James Stewart, Josephine Hull and all the rest that a virtually brand new experience is still in store for even those who saw the play."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |date=December 22, 1950 |title=The Screen In Review |journal=[[The New York Times]] |page=19 }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote that the play "loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation", and that Stewart "would seem the perfect casting for the character so well does he convey the idea that escape from life into a pleasant half-world existence has many points in its favor."<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 18, 1950 |title=Harvey |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=6 }}</ref> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' wrote, "A brief synopsis cannot do justice to the humor in the story, much of it delightful and some of it hilarious. Stewart is excellent in the leading role; his casual ease and amiability, and the quiet manner in which he explains his relationship with 'Harvey,' are fascinating."<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 14, 1950 |title='Harvey' with James Stewart and Josephine Hull |journal=[[Harrison's Reports]] |page=164 }}</ref> [[Richard L. Coe]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' called it "one of the most beguiling comedies possible ... I'm certain you'll admire the able playing of Stewart and the marvelous out-of-this-world perplexity of the superb Mrs. Hull. Both are Academy Award performances."<ref>{{cite news |last=Coe |first=Richard L. |date=December 25, 1950 |title=It's a Happy Yule With 'Harvey' Here |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=4 }}</ref>

[[John McCarten]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' called it "a movie that only a case-hardened wowser would fail to find beguiling. Even if you saw the play, I don't think your familiarity with the alcoholic hallucinations of Elwood P. Dowd, the hero, will diminish your enjoyment of the film, and though James Stewart, who plays Dowd in the picture, doesn't bring to his part all the battered authority of [[Frank Fay (American actor)|Frank Fay]], the originator of the role, he nevertheless succeeds in making plausible the notion that Harvey, the rabbit, would accept him as a pal."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McCarten |first=John |date=December 23, 1950 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |page=51 }}</ref> ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' was less positive, writing that "Harvey himself scarcely begins to exist for the audience until the last few minutes. In his absence, the humours that can be extracted from the more obvious aspects of lunacy or suspected lunacy are wrung rather dry."<ref>{{cite journal |date=January 1951 |title=Harvey |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=18 |issue=204 |page=200 }}</ref>

''[[TV Guide]]'' says James Stewart gave "one of his finest performances in this lighthearted film", and it currently has five out of five stars on their site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/harvey/125489|title=Harvey (1950)|access-date=May 5, 2010|archive-date=January 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125030254/http://movies.tvguide.com/harvey/125489|url-status=live}}</ref> {{Rotten Tomatoes prose|87|7.6|30}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009261-harvey/|title=Harvey|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=4 May 2024}}</ref>

Stewart took a percentage of the profits. In 1953, [[William Goetz]] estimated that Stewart had earned $200,000 from the film,<ref>{{cite news|title=A TOWN CALLED HOLLYWOOD: Top Stars Now Share in Profits of Major Pictures|author=Scheuer, Philip K|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 24, 1955|page=d2}}</ref> equivalent to ${{Inflation|index=US|value=.2|start_year=1953|r=2}} million in {{Inflation year|index=US}}.