Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

Danny Kaye
as Walter Mitty

Virginia Mayo
as Rosalind van Hoorn

Fay Bainter
as Mrs. Mitty

Thurston Hall
as Bruce Pierce

Ann Rutherford
as Gertrude Griswold

Florence Bates
as Mrs. Griswold

Gordon Jones
as Tubby Wadsworth

Boris Karloff
as Dr. Hugo Hollingshead

Konstantin Shayne
as Peter van Hoorn

Henry Corden
as Hendrick
John Chard
I wake up dreaming. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by Norman Z. McLeod and adapted loosely to screenplay by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman from the short story of the same name written by James Thurber. It stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, A...