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Josephine Hull (January 3, 1886[1] – March 12, 1957) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning American actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film.
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Like many other actors on these pages, Josephine Hull had a very limited movie and television career as she was devoted to theatre and the stage. She did... create some extremely memorable roles on film and was awarded for her efforts with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Very squat and tiny at 5 foot 2 inches with a craggy face and quivery voice she became most successful in her senior years. She was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts on January 3, 1886 to a non-theatrical family. Her parents were alarmed and concerned when she chose to follow drama at Radcliffe College. After graduation she joined a Boston stock theatre company touring for a few years at $6 a week salary.
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With regret, Veta Simmons (Josephine Hull) decides to have her affable brother Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) committed to an asylum. His drinking and his unshakeable delusion of Harvey, a six-foot rabbit who is his constant companion, are interfering with her plans to find her daughter a suitable mate.
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Veta Louise Simmons (Josephine Hull) hopes to arrange a wonderful marriage for daughter Myrtle May (Victoria Horne) in the upper echelons of society. There's one problem: her wealthy brother Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) has an imaginary pal, a six-foot-three rabbit called Harvey. After Elwood accidently wrecks a party by introducing Harvey to everyone, Veta decides to have him committed.
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In addition to Grant as Mortimer Brewster, the film ... starred Josephine Hull and Jean Adair as the Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, respectively. Hull and Adair as well as John Alexander (who played Teddy) reprised their roles from the original 1941 stage production.
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This is a photo of Frank Fay as Elwood P. Dowd, with Josephine Hull as Veta, Elwood's sister, in the original 1944 Broadway production of "Harvey," by Mary Chase. Hull would go on to play Veta opposite James Stewart as Elwood in the famous film version.
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