La vie secrète de Walter Mitty

Original title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo in La vie secrète de Walter Mitty (1947)

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Comedy Fantasy Romance

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

7.2K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

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Trivia
Author James Thurber offered producer Samuel Goldwyn $10,000 to not make the film.

Goofs
The swastikas shown on the Spitfire are originally shown in reverse. Shortly thereafter they are shown the correct way round. Clearly the studio mocked up one side of a Spitfire and simply reversed the filmed image to 'show' both sides of the plane.

Quotes
Walter Mitty: Your small minds are musclebound with suspicion. That's because the only exercise you ever get is jumping to conclusions.

Connections
Featured in The Dick Cavett Show: Danny Kaye (1971)

Soundtracks
The Words and Music for
"Symphony for Unstrung Tongue"
by Sylvia Fine
Performed by Danny Kaye (uncredited)

Danny Kaye plays his part very well

If you like Danny Kaye's style you should see this movie. I like his style of making people laugh, so I'm amused with "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". The scenes in which "Mitty" imagines himself to be a brave British pilot (and when he pretends to be his old music teacher), a hat designer, and a gambler from the old South are my favorite "dream sequences" of the film. Regarding the scenes that take place in "the real world" I think the takes with Doctor Hollingshead (Boris Karloff) and the one in which Mitty pretends to have a gun in his pocket are very funny. The partnership between Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo is here at its best.