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[[File:The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite.jpg|thumb|Earliest known poster for '''''The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite'''''.]] | [[File:The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite.jpg|thumb|Earliest known poster for '''''The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite'''''.]] | ||
'''''The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite''''' | '''''The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite''''' is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the career of journalist Walter Cronkite. The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming journalist (later anchorman) for CBS News and Virginia Mayo as the girl journalist of his dreams. | ||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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File:Undercover Jester.jpg|link=Undercover Jester|'''''[[Undercover Jester]]''''' is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester. | |||
File:Levity's Rainbow.jpg|link=Levity's Rainbow|'''''[[Levity's Rainbow]]''''' is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian. | |||
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* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | * [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | ||
* [[I identified with Walter Mitty at a tender age]] | |||
* ''[[Levity's Rainbow]]'' | |||
* ''[[Undercover Jester]]'' | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [ | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(1947_film) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)] @ Wikipedia | ||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=awthjYwVAr4 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - trailer] @ YouTube | |||
* [https://digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/vietnam/cronkite.cfm Walter Cronkite's "We Are Mired in Stalemate" Broadcast, February 27, 1968] @ Digital History | |||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=arfMd_ar91o Vietnam and Television News] @ YouTube | |||
=== Social media === | |||
* https:// | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1785743354870874601 Post] @ Twitter (1 May 2024) | ||
* https:// | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1613005071763271680 Post] @ Twitter (10 January 2023) | ||
* https:// | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1554490829074481153 Post] @ Twitter (2 August 2022) | ||
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[[Category:James Thurber (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:James Thurber (nonfiction)]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:57, 20 June 2024
The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the career of journalist Walter Cronkite. The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming journalist (later anchorman) for CBS News and Virginia Mayo as the girl journalist of his dreams.
In the News
Undercover Jester is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester.
Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian.
Fiction cross-reference
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- I identified with Walter Mitty at a tender age
- Levity's Rainbow
- Undercover Jester
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film) @ Wikipedia
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - trailer @ YouTube
- Walter Cronkite's "We Are Mired in Stalemate" Broadcast, February 27, 1968 @ Digital History
- Vietnam and Television News @ YouTube
Social media
Categories:
- Fiction (nonfiction)
- Walter Cronkite (nonfiction)
- Vietnam War (nonfiction)
- War (nonfiction)
- 1940s (nonfiction)
- 1947 (nonfiction)
- Ken Englund (nonfiction)
- Films (nonfiction)
- Fay Bainter (nonfiction)
- Sylvia Fine (nonfiction)
- Everett Freeman (nonfiction)
- Samuel Goldwyn (nonfiction)
- Boris Karloff (nonfiction)
- Danny Kaye (nonfiction)
- Virginia Mayo (nonfiction)
- Norman Z. McLeod (nonfiction)
- David Raksin (nonfiction)
- Philip Rapp (nonfiction)
- Ann Rutherford (nonfiction)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (nonfiction)
- James Thurber (nonfiction)
- Walter Mitty (nonfiction)