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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)
1947
- 1947 · Comedy · 1h 48m
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.
- $3,350,000 (US rentals)
1 Video. 58 Photos. Comedy Fantasy Romance. A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy. Director. Norman Z. McLeod. Writers. Ken Englund. Everett Freeman. James Thurber. Stars. Danny Kaye. Virginia Mayo. Boris Karloff. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +6. Add to Watchlist. Added by 8.9K users. 75 User reviews.
- Norman Z. Mcleod
- 1
- 2 min
Buy or rent. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 13. A mild-mannered pushover, Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) longs to be free of his mundane existence, where has to contend with...
Synopsis. On his way to Pierce Publishing in New York City, where he works as a proofreader, milquetoast Walter Mitty has one of his many daydreams in which he is a swashbuckling hero. At work, his boss, Bruce Pierce, steals Walter's ideas and then chastises him when he daydreams he is a famous brain surgeon impressing a lovesick nurse.
- Norman Z. Mcleod, Rollie Asher, Joan Hathaway
- Danny Kaye
Indulging in elaborate daydreams, Walter finds himself on a real adventure when the lovely and enigmatic Rosalind van Hoorn (Virginia Mayo) ropes him into a situation involving valuable jewels, a...
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- Danny Kaye
- Norman Z. Mcleod
- Comedy
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Walter Mitty, a daydreaming pulp-fiction proofreader with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book.
The story was made into a 1947 film starring Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming editor of pulp magazines. The film was adapted for the screen by Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, and Philip Rapp, and directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It was filmed in Technicolor .