The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite
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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.
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- Post @ Twitter (2 August 2022)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(1947_film)
- https://digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/vietnam/cronkite.cfm Walter Cronkite's "We Are Mired in Stalemate" Broadcast, February 27, 1968
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=arfMd_ar91o Vietnam and Television News
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=awthjYwVAr4 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - trailer
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- Fay Bainter (nonfiction)
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- Everett Freeman (nonfiction)
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- Norman Z. McLeod (nonfiction)
- David Raksin (nonfiction)
- Philip Rapp (nonfiction)
- Ann Rutherford (nonfiction)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (nonfiction)
- James Thurber (nonfiction)