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"The Catbird Seat" is a 1942 short story by James Thurber. The story first appeared in The New Yorker on November 14, 1942. The story was also published in the 1945 anthology The Thurber Carnival .
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, [3] the first documented use occurred in a 1942 humorous short story by James Thurber titled "The Catbird Seat", [4] which features a character, Mrs. Barrows, who likes to use the phrase.
In 1958, Thurber's short story "One Is a Wanderer" was adapted for General Electric Theatre, [34] resulting in Emmy nominations for writer Samuel Taylor and director Herschel Daugherty. [35] The 1959 film The Battle of the Sexes was based on Thurber's 1942 short story "The Catbird Seat".
The Battle of the Sexes is a 1959 British black and white comedy film starring Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, and Constance Cummings, and directed by Charles Crichton.Based on the short story "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber, [3] it was adapted by Monja Danischewsky.
In the short Foreword, the editors state that "[s]ome notable stories are missing" for purposes of balance, and also that "parody, nonsense, and casual essays" have been excluded as "outside the scope of this book." There is a conventional table of contents and an index lists each story alphabetically by its author's last name.
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The story ends with, "Moral: Don't count your boobies before they're hatched", a play on the popular adage, "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched". Thus, the moral advises not to expect one's hopes to be a certainty. Another short story by Thurber, “The Catbird Seat” has a similar theme.