The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite

Earliest known poster for 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.

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  Undercover Jester is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• I identified with Walter Mitty at a tender age
• Levity's Rainbow
• Undercover Jester

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

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