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*THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (1947) Danny Kaye Riverboat Gambler Fantasy
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OBO - Seller accepts offers on this item.
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Refunds available: See booth/item description for details
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Payment options
PayPal accepted
PayPal Credit accepted
Venmo accepted
PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express accepted
Maestro accepted
Amazon Pay accepted
Nuvei accepted
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Only one in stock, order soon |
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Unspecified by seller, may be new. |
Country/Region of Manufacture: |
United States |
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United States |
Original/Reproduction: |
Original |
Year: |
1940-49 |
Item Number: |
CS-MITTY-RSC3 |
Actors: |
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Gordon Jones |
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More than a week ago |
Item number: |
1239584721 |
Item description
Vintage original 11 x 14 in. US lobby card from the 1940s fantasy comedy/romance, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, released in 1947 by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Norman Z. McLeod, in which a clumsy daydreamer (Danny Kaye) gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.
Printed for the film's 1955 US theatrical re-release by Samuel Goldwyn, the image depicts an interior shot of Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) in his fantasy as a dashing riverboat gambler as he bests fellow gambler Tubby Wadsworth (Gordon Jones) to impress Rosalind (Virginia Mayo) while the group watches. As indicated in the lower right corner of the image area, this is lobby card #3 from the set of 8 cards. It is unused in very fine condition with one set of staple holes in the center of the top border (the prior owner had stapled this unused set together, presumably to keep them all together).
The working title for this film was I Wake Up Dreaming. Author James Thurber offered producer Samuel Goldwyn $10,000 to not make the film. In an unused Mitty dream sequence, Boris Karloff appears as the Frankenstein (1931) monster, which explains Mitty's fear of Karloff's character. Test photos of Karloff in makeup by Jack P. Pierce exist, as well as a letter from Universal Pictures to Samuel Goldwyn Pictures giving permission to use the makeup design. The RMS Queen Mary appears in the background in the scene where Mitty takes a taxi to Pier 47 in an effort to retrieve his briefcase. The Queen Mary, used as a troop transport during World War II, is still painted in its wartime gray in this scene, filmed about a year after the end of the War.
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