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Wonder Man
Why this pick
Danny Kaye again turns nervous, unassuming comedy into flamboyant fantasy, with rapid-fire physical gags and a supernatural premise that lets an ordinary man become unexpectedly heroic.
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MOVIE1947 1h 50m USA
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Like Mitty, it cherishes movies as an escape from dreary daily life, but gives that yearning a more romantic, bittersweet shape while preserving a buoyant old-Hollywood sense of wonder.
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Why this pick
Its heightened adventures and warmly stylized visuals capture the appeal of turning an apparently ordinary life into a heroic personal legend, with fantasy serving emotional truth rather than realism.
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Midnight in Paris
Why this pick
A dissatisfied everyman literally wanders into his idealized fantasies, making this a light, nostalgic companion to Mitty’s longing for romance, artistic possibility, and a more vivid existence.
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Why this pick
For the dream-reality slippage and handmade visual imagination of Mitty’s fantasy scenes, this inventive romantic fable offers a more modern, intimate portrait of a mind escaping routine.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey". He is henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth and her loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Danny Kaye
Walter Mitty
Virginia Mayo
Rosalind van Hoorn
Fay Bainter
Mrs. Mitty
Gordon Jones
Tubby Wadsworth
Henry Corden
Hendrick
Milton Parsons
Butler
Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Follinsbee
Reginald Denny
Colonel