The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) |
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Other InformationPlot SummaryJames Thurber wasn`t too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but the Technicolor musical comedy proved to be a cash cow at the box office. Danny Kaye stars as Walter, a milquetoast proof... Related MoviesThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty [Remade as] (Year of movie: 2010) DiscographySinglesSymphony For an Unstrung Tongue (The Little Fiddle) Anatole of Paris |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Walter Mitty: [singing while daydreaming that he`s Anatole of Paris] And why do I sew each new chapeau with a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous, I hate women.
[giggles] Dr. Hollingshead: Perhaps you are mistaking me for someone else.
Walter Mitty: Oh, no. No one looks as much like you do as *you* do. Mrs. Mitty: The clock didn`t strike. I definitely heard it not strike. Walter Mitty: Here I am, lard face. Walter Mitty: Your small minds are musclebound with suspicion. That`s because the only exercise you ever get is jumping to conclusions. Gertrude Griswold: Walter, what`s that awful smell?
Walter Mitty: It`s that cologne you gave me for Christmas.
Gertrude Griswold: It`s lovely, isn`t it?Trivia Ann Rutherford said that the dog that played Queenie was really a very nice dog, just very well trained to act mean! His trainer was always just off camera. Henry Corden`s first project. In an unused Mitty dream sequence, Boris Karloff appears as the Frankenstein monster, which explains Mitty`s fear of Karloff`s character. Test photos of Karloff in makeup (by Jack P. Pierce) exist, as well as a letter from Universal Pictures to Goldwyn Pictures giving permission to use the makeup design. Danny Kaye`s wife, Sylvia Fine, wrote the lyrics to a song in which Walter Mitty fantasizes that he is the homosexual women`s hat designer Anatole of Paris, whose show he stumbles upon while escaping from villains in Stacey`s Department Store. She was a musical-theater buff and introduced a reference to the song "Ol` Man River" (from Show Boat (1936)) into the lyrics of the song "Anatole of Paris" and satirical references to "Show Boat" in one of Mitty`s daydreams. Author James Thurber acknowledged that the character Walter Mitty was based on his friend, writer Robert Benchley. Thurber said that he got the idea for Mitty from the character created by Benchley in a series of shorts that he made for Fox and MGM, respectively, in the 1920s and 1930s. Thurber is also on record as saying that he hated this film and that Danny Kaye`s interpretation of Mitty is nothing at all like he intended the character to be. Author James Thurber offered producer Samuel Goldwyn $10,000 to not make the film. | ||
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