Thurber wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal with his friend Elliott Nugent and the show was later made into a film starring Henry Fonda. Thurber’s short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was made into a film in 1947 and then remade starring Ben Stiller in 2013. Thurber won a special Tony Award for the adapted script of A Thurber Carnival. James Thurber passed away on November 2, 1961 at 66 years old.