harvey

     

Harvey is an English given name, surname, place-name, erived from a Breton personal name meaning "battle-worthy". It is thought to have come to England with the Breton mercenaries of William the Conqueror as "James Bay". As a given name, the diminutive Harry is sometimes used.

Trivia about harvey

  • Mary Chase play concerned with the sanity of one Elwood P. Dowd
  • Jimmy Stewart's 6' 3 1/2" invisible companion in 1950
  • Middle name of the mug-shot man seen here
  • Unseen for most of the film, he's the title character of a 1950 Jimmy Stewart movie
  • Late radio commentator Paul & James I's physician William
  • In 1628 this Brit published his study "On the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"
  • In this play Veta Simmons tries to get her brother Elwood P. Dowd committed to a sanitorium
  • As Elwood P. Dowd, Jimmy Stewart calls this rabbit companion a "pooka"

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