The Secret Life of Walter Mitty poster

Movie · 1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Released 1 September 1947 More from 1947 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Fritz Feld
as Anatole
46
Hank Worden
as Western Character (uncredited)
46
Ann Rutherford
as Gertrude Griswold
29
Virginia Mayo
as Rosalind van Hoorn
26
Sue Casey
as (uncredited)
21
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
25years between the oldest and youngest billed
46Fritz Feld — oldest on the call sheet
21Sue Casey — youngest billed
34average age of the credited cast
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