If there's one movie Danny Kaye fans fondly remember, it's the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The versatile comedian-also an unsurpassed song-and-dance man-plays a henpecked, thriller-genre book writer suddenly enmeshed in a real adventure involving the (literal) girl of his dreams (Virginia Mayo). Kaye benefits from a wonderful supporting cast: Mayo; Boris Karloff as maniacal Dr. Hugo Hollings head; Faye Bainter as Walter's repressive but lively mother; Ann Rutherford as his suspicious fiancée Gertrude; and Gordon Jones as Tubby, who not only has designs on Gertrude, but provides the villain in Walter's fantasies.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Actor: Ann Rutherford
Actor: Boris Karloff
Actor: Danny Kaye
Actor: Fay Bainter
Actor: Virginia Mayo
Actor: Florence Bates
Actor: Gordon Jones
Actor: Konstantin Shayne
Actor: Reginald Denny
Actor: Thurston Hall