"The Dick Cavett Show" Danny Kaye (TV Episode 1971)
Clip shown."American Masters" Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter (TV Episode 1996)
The 77th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special 2005)
Clip shown during In Memoriam segment (Virginia Mayo)- Clips shown. Movie discussed.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" Life of Vernon Hathaway (TV Episode 1955)
Mentioned in the introduction among Norman Z. McLeod's credits"The Dick Van Dyke Show" The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally (TV Episode 1962)
title reference- Character named Walter Mitty.
"The Rockford Files" Gearjammers, Part 1 (TV Episode 1975)
Rockford accuses Rocky of having a secret life, just like Walter MittyFantasex (1976)
The film's plot, with a young editor escaping the drudgery of his life through fantasy, is largely a takeoff on this classic Hollywood film
Show Boat (1936)
During one of his daydreams, in a nod to "Show Boat"'s Gaylord Ravenal, Mitty imagines himself as Gaylord Mitty, a riverboat gambler. During one of the songs, Mitty utters the line "Tote dat barge, lift dat veil", a deliberate misquote from the song "Ol' Man River".The Woman in Green (1945)
While talking about the murder and the woman Walter was with, a cop says "And you say the woman was in green?" Then he says "I know; this is a case for Scotland Yard" . In "The Woman in Green", Scotland Yard looks for a woman they suspect of killing someone.
- Based on the same James Thurber's short story
- based on the same James Thurber short story
- based on the same James Thurber short story
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