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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 American Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the 1939 short story of the same name by James Thurber.The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming proofreader (later associate editor) for a magazine publishing firm and Virginia Mayo as the girl of his dreams.
Walter Jackson Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's first short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World—and Welcome to It in 1942. Thurber loosely based the character, a daydreamer, on himself. [1]
Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at Life magazine living alone in New York City.He chronically daydreams and has a secret crush on Cheryl Melhoff, a coworker. Walter attempts to contact Cheryl via eHarmony but eHarmony customer service agent Todd Mahar explains that Walter's account is not fully filled out: the "been there" and "done that" sections are blank.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, [ 1 ] it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It ( Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1942 ). [ 2 ]
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939), James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990), Stephen King: Secret Window (2004) "Secrets" (1918), May Edginton: Secrets (1924) Secrets (1933) "See How They Run" (1951), Mary Elizabeth Vroman: Bright Road (1953)
In 1947 his short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", was loosely adapted as a film by the same name. Danny Kaye played the title character. In 1951 United Productions of America announced an animated feature to be based on Thurber's work, titled Men, Women and Dogs . [ 32 ]
Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898 – January 27, 1964) was an American film director.. McLeod's most acclaimed work was made in collaboration with major comic performers of the 1930s, and included such films as the first original Marx Brothers comedies Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers (1932), the most acclaimed W.C. Fields film It's a Gift (1934), the Danny Kaye vehicle The ...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film) The Senator Was Indiscreet; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock; Sing a Song of Six Pants; So You Want to Be in Pictures; Song of the Thin Man; Stjerneskud; Stork Bites Man; The Swedenhielm Family; Sweet Genevieve; Sybille's Night