The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
A dream world of comedy, color and Goldwyn-Girl loveliness!
Director: Norman Z. McLeod · Writers: Everett Freeman, James Thurber, Ken Englund
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Director
Norman Z. McLeod
Cast
Danny Kaye
Walter Mitty 
Virginia Mayo
Rosalind van Hoorn 
Boris Karloff
Dr. Hollingshead 
Fay Bainter
Mrs. Mitty 
Ann Rutherford
Gertrude Griswold 
Thurston Hall
Bruce Pierce 
Gordon Jones
Tubby Wadsworth 
Florence Bates
Mrs. Griswold 
Konstantin Shayne
Peter van Hoorn 
Reginald Denny
Colonel 
Henry Corden
Hendrick 
Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Follinsbee User Reviews (1)
I wake up dreaming. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by Norman Z. McLeod and adapted loosely to screenplay by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman from the short story of the same name written by James Thurber. It stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford, Konstantin Shayne and Gordon Jones. A Technicoor production with music by Sylvia Fine (songs) and David Raskin (score) and cinematography by Lee Garmes. Milquetoast Walter Mitty (Kaye) escapes the incessant needling of those around him by dreaming up exciting adventures for himself. Upon meeting gorgeous Rosalind van Hoorn (Mayo) he gets thrust into a real adventure involving Dutch treasure, but this is real stuff and his life is under threat! A lovely Danny Kaye vehicle full of neatly constructed comedy, pleasant tunes and Technicolor supreme. It's too long at ten minutes…
