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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)

Index The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the short story of the same name by James Thurber. [1]

55 relations: Alter ego, Ann Rutherford, Ben Stiller, Boris Karloff, Boris Karloff filmography, Collier's, Comedy film, Courtship, Danny Kaye, David Raksin, Doris Lloyd, Editing, Empire (film magazine), Fay Bainter, Fighter pilot, Florence Bates, Frank Reicher, Fritz Feld, Gallup (company), Gordon Jones (actor), Hatmaking, Henry Corden, I Wake Up Screaming, James Thurber, Jim Carrey, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Garmes, Life (magazine), List of American films of 1947, Monica Collingwood, Nazism, Norman Z. McLeod, Patter song, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Philip Rapp, Pulp magazine, Radio drama, Reginald Denny (actor), RKO Pictures, Royal Air Force, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Screenwriter, Steve Fisher (writer), Sylvia Fine, Technicolor, The Screen Guild Theater, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thurston Hall, ..., Variety (magazine), Virginia Mayo, Walter Mitty, Word play, World War II. Expand index (5 more) »

Alter ego

An alter ego (Latin, "the other I") is a second self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality.

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Ann Rutherford

Therese Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012) was a Canadian-American actress in film, radio, and television.

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Ben Stiller

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.

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Boris Karloff filmography

This is the filmography of Boris Karloff.

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Collier's

Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Courtship

Courtship is the period of development towards an intimate relationship wherein people (usually a couple) get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other romantic arrangement.

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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician.

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David Raksin

David Raksin (August 4, 1912August 9, 2004) was an American composer who was renowned for his work in film and television.

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Doris Lloyd

Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American film, television and stage actress.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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Fay Bainter

Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress.

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Fighter pilot

A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft.

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Florence Bates

Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles.

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Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher (December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer.

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Fritz Feld

Fritz Feld (born Fritz Feilchenfeld, October 15, 1900 – November 18, 1993) was a German-American film character actor who appeared in over 140 films in 72 years, both silent and sound.

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Gallup (company)

Gallup, Inc. is an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company.

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Gordon Jones (actor)

Gordon Wynnivo Jones (April 5, 1911 – June 20, 1963) was an American character actor, a member of John Wayne's informal acting company best known for playing Lou Costello's TV nemesis "Mike the Cop" and appearing as The Green Hornet in the first of two movie serials based on that old-time radio program.

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Hatmaking

Hatmaking or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and head-wear.

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Henry Corden

Henry Corden (January 6, 1920 – May 19, 2005) was a Canadian-born American actor and voice actor best known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone after Alan Reed died in 1977.

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I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming (originally titled Hot Spot) is a 1941 film noir.

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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit.

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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, musician, producer and painter.

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Konstantin Shayne

Konstantin Shayne (born Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski (Константин Вениаминович Олькеницкий), November 29, 1888 – November 15, 1974) was an actor from the Russian Empire who emigrated to the United States.

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Lee Garmes

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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List of American films of 1947

A list of American films released in 1947.

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Monica Collingwood

Monica Collingwood (January 5, 1908 – October 31, 1989) was an American film editor who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 1947 Academy Awards for the Henry Koster drama The Bishop's Wife (1947).

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898 – January 27, 1964) was an American film director, cartoonist, and writer.

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Patter song

The patter song is characterised by a moderately fast to very fast tempo with a rapid succession of rhythmic patterns in which each syllable of text corresponds to one note.

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Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Philip Rapp

Philip Rapp (March 26, 1907 – January 23, 1996) was a film and television director and screenwriter.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Reginald Denny (actor)

Not to be confused with Reginald Denny (truck driver), a survivor of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Reginald Denny (born Reginald Leigh Dugmore, 20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967) was an English stage, film and television actor as well as an aviator and UAV pioneer.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz; שמואל געלבפֿיש; c. August 27, 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer of Jewish descent.

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Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Samuel John Goldwyn Jr. (September 7, 1926 – January 9, 2015) was an American film producer.

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Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an American film production company founded by Samuel Goldwyn in 1923, and active through 1959.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Steve Fisher (writer)

Stephen Gould Fisher (August 29, 1912 – March 27, 1980) was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays.

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Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine (August 29, 1913October 28, 1991) was an American lyricist, composer, and producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Screen Guild Theater

The Screen Guild Theater is a radio anthology series broadcast from 1939 until 1952 during the Golden Age of Radio.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) is a short story by James Thurber.

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Thurston Hall

Ernest Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958) was an American film, stage and television actor.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones; November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer.

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Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's 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.

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Word play

Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(1947_film)

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