HEY ALANABIT

..........Alan, the actress in question who played Veta Louise was Josephine Hull and I agree on her brilliance. Like many others who have enjoyed acting on the amateur college and community theater level where "Harvey" is a staple, I too have done the play and the performances of almost all the actors in the movie are almost always attempted to be mirrored by us amateurs. BTW, the only actor I ever saw do a great job on the Elwood P. Dowd character besides Jimmy Stewart was Art Carney and his was a different and equally compelling performance. It was a wonderful and wonderfully funny play and movie which gives us a great piece of hard earned life philosophy:

"In this world you have to be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart......I recommend pleasant."

Perhaps you have also seen Ms. Hull in the movie of "Arsenic and Old Lace" where she palys one of the two Brewster sisters who poison the poor and lonely men who apply to rent a room with their spiked Elderberry wine and bury them in the basement. I mentioned Cary Grant as a fine comedic actor and he shows it in "A&OL."

Spaw