Harvey by Mary Chase
Language: English
6 M 6 F
Movie Runtime - 1 hour 40 min
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/
Genre
A comic fantasy in 3 acts
"Born in Denver, Colorado in 1906, Chase remained in Denver her entire life. In 1924, she began her career as a journalist on the Rocky Mountain News, leaving in 1931 to raise a family. At the News, she started writing on the society pages, but soon became part of the news itself as "our little Mary", reporting the news from either a comic or a sob sister, emotional angle. In the 1920s, reporters typically worked in The Front Page tradition: putting in long hours, drinking hard, and stopping at nothing to beat the competition to a story. Running around Denver with photographer Harry Rhoads in a Model T Ford, she recalled, "In the course of a day, Harry and I might begin at the Police Court, go to a murder trail at the West Side Court, cover a party in the evening at Mrs. Crawford Hill's mansion, and rush to a shooting at 11pm."
Chase wrote Harvey (1944), which ran on Broadway from 1944 until 1949, becoming the 35th longest running Broadway show in its history. She also collaborated in writing the screenplay for the 1950 Universal pictures film with Jimmy Stewart. She also wrote the comedy Mrs. McThing (1952) ."
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