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Yesterday, the Classic Movies at Noon film series featured Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart.  The movie is based on Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.   While most of the audience had seen it before, all agreed it is a timeless classic that bears repeated viewing.  Its gentle, life-affirming message of tolerance is as relevant today as when the film was released in 1950.

The movie follows Stewart’s affable character, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, an invisible six-foot rabbit named Harvey.  While Elwood’s friends and acquaintances indulge his harmless idiosyncrasy, his social-climbing sister and niece want him committed to a sanitarium to spare them future embarrassment.  Needless to say, chaos and hilarity ensue as the audience tries to determine just who the sane parties are. 

If you haven’t seen Harvey, or even if you have, do yourself a favor and check out this feel-good flick from the Peninsula Center Library.  I guarantee it will put a smile on your face.

Please join us at the Annex on May 11, at 12:00 noon for a showing of the 1938 film Holiday starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.