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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. " 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]
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] It was made into a film in 1947 starring Danny ...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American adventure comedy-drama film directed, co-produced by and starring Ben Stiller and written by Steve Conrad. The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, and Sean Penn. [ 7][ 8] The second film adaptation of James Thurber 's 1939 short story of the same name, [ 9 ...
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. The film was adapted for the screen ...
A Thurber Carnival. A Thurber Carnival is a revue by James Thurber, adapted by the author from his stories, cartoons and casuals [1] (humorous short pieces), nearly all of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. It was directed by Burgess Meredith with James Starbuck serving as associate director.
Release. September 15, 1969. ( 1969-09-15) –. March 9, 1970. ( 1970-03-09) My World ... and Welcome to It is an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and cartoons of James Thurber. [ 1] It starred William Windom as John Monroe, a Thurber-like writer and cartoonist who works for a magazine closely resembling The New Yorker ...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Sinyushka's Well; Smoke in the Forest; The Stymphalean Birds; T. Tea on the Mountain; Trends (short story) ... Text is available ...
Considering the stature of this short story, the current article is extremely unbalanced - the story is barely mentioned except in connection with this unsourced Anthony Cox theory. As it stands now, the 1947 film gets most of the copy, followed by the remake, followed by the unsourced theory, with the short story, which should be the article's ...