I f, while watching “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” you start wondering ... who decides to live life instead of fantasize abut it. Virginia Mayo is his dream girl, who's being pursued ...

But his most famous piece, “The Secret Life ... Virginia Mayo, one of then-reigning beautiful blondes, as the girl. The film opens with a large, unpleasant, domineering women saying to Walter ...

In our superhero world, Ben Stiller must have realized how much harder it is today for milquetoast men in a macho America when he set out to direct and star in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ...

Walter Mitty, the bashful, hen-pecked protagonist ... where he incranates various swashbuckling heroes who come to life in spectacular sequences. But reality and dreams collide when a mysterious ...

Thurber's whole conception of Mitty was an inconsequential fellow from Perth Amboy, NJ, to whom nothing - but nothing - ever happened and who, as a result, lived a 'secret life' via his excursions ...

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a ...

A Thurber short story became the basis for the 1947 Technicolor musical comedy extravaganza THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. In that film Danny Kaye as Mitty is a meek day-dreaming pulp magazine ...

I first encountered James Thurber’s well-known short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” in an English class during my sophomore year at Stanford. Given the creative writing program’s ...