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The secret life of james thurber5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Thurber told Life magazine in a letter that he was considerably dissatisfied with the script of Walter Mitty which contained too much horror and female bathing beauties and had sadly been turned into something especially tailored for the talents of Kaye. Kaye’s film was a deceptively bright movie for post-WW2 America and the fact it stars peaches and cream actress Virginia Mayo (1920-2005 pneumonia and heart failure) shows it was meant for family audiences interested in musicals as opposed the cynicism and disillusionment of film noir which was gaining in popularity.ĭated comedian Danny Kaye’s famous quote from the movie The Court Jester (1956) This original version of the film was made in colour and Kaye is the henpecked unmarried son of a bossy mother who works for an idea stealing boss in a publishing firm where he works as a proof-reader and editor. The first film version starred Danny Kaye (1911-87 AIDS and hepatitis from tainted blood supplied during a heart bypass) and he is a comedian whose antics have dated for all except the most devoted of fans. He is probably most famous for his 4000-word short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which has been made into a movie on two occasions (19) as it tells of a fellow by the name of Walter Mitty who escapes the mundane everyday life of his marriage by imaging the most outlandish adventures. ![]() Cartoonist, illustrator and humorist James Thurber ![]()
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