Thursday, May 21, 2026

Secret Life of James Thurber (1960) Unsold Pilot Starring Orson Bean & Adolphe Menjou

3 comments:

Quantrilltoy said...

Thanks for that. I see the cartoonist is not actually intended to be James Thurber but someone in the same spirit. Wasn't there another TV series that went ahead and also based on Thurber?

Quantrilltoy said...

I see now, 'James Munroe' was Thurber's alter ego in his work. The TV show I was thinking of was 'My World and Welcome to it'.https://www.google.com/search?q=my+world+and+welcome+to+it&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU1158AU1184&oq=my+world+and+welcome+to+it&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEC4YgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBggHEEUYPNIBCDU5ODdqMGo0qAIBsAIB8QXtXQCysGR97Q&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e93ca137,vid:Jg7dmOFwKVY,st:0

DBenson said...

"My World and Welcome to It" spawned "The War Between Men and Women", a 1972 romcom from the same creators offering Jack Lemmon as yet another fully fictional character who happens to draw Thurber cartoons, but this time with Thurber's real life vision problems.