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The Seven Year Itch Overview:

The Seven Year Itch (1955) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Billy Wilder and Charles K. Feldman.

SYNOPSIS

One of Monroe's funniest, finest performances came in Wilder's classic comedy. Happily married Manhattanite Ewell reverts to bachelor fantasies when his wife (Keyes) and child leave for a summer vacation. His dreams come true when he meets his new neighbor, Monroe. While in the film Ewell remains torn between his fantasies and guilt, the play upon which the film was based reached the same happy ending though Ewell succeeds in bedding his neighbor, something Hollywood would have never allowed in the '50s. The origin of perhaps the decade's most lasting icon: Monroe radiating her smile while that famous white summer dress billows above a subway grating.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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Silver Screen Standards: The Seven Year Itch (1955)

By Jennifer Garlen on Aug 15, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Silver Screen Standards: The Seven Year Itch (1955) Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe take a tumble together in The Seven Year Itch (1955), in which Ewell plays a married man fantasizing about infidelity. News of summer heatwaves naturally put thoughts of The Seven Year Itch (1955) and undies in th... Read full article

Marilyn: Behind the Icon – The Seven Year Itch

By Gary Vitacco-Robles on Aug 10, 2020 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Marilyn: Behind the Icon –The Seven Year Itch Delivers Monroe’s Immortal Iconic Image In 1955, after Marilyn Monroe left Hollywood to study at The Actor’s Studio in Manhattan, she sat in a booth in a diner facing Lowe’s State Theatre on Broadway. Friend and actor Eli Wallach sat a... Read full article

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

By Beatrice on Feb 26, 2016 From Flickers in Time

The Seven Year Itch Directed by Billy Wilder Written by Billy Wilder and George Axelrod from Axelrod’s play 1955/USA Charles K. Feldman Group/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing/Netflix rental This is not one of Billy Wilder’s most highly rated films but I think it&#... Read full article

The Seven Year Itch

By Michael on May 20, 2014 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, 1955) This romantic comedy staring Marylin Monroe and Tom Ewell became one of the most iconic moments of Monroe’s career. The famous white dress blowing over the subway trap that unveils her legs to the audience and the male main character. Adapted ... Read full article

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

By Robert Liwanag on Jan 29, 2014 From Pretty Clever Films

Some of cinema’s most iconic moments are relatively simple ones – Harry Lime appearing out of the shadows, Darth Vader revealing his secret to Luke, or lonely Travis Bickle rehearsing in front of a mirror. The Seven Year Itch has one for the books, too. Marilyn Monroe stands over a subway gratin... Read full article

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The Seven Year Itch Quotes:

The Girl: You're married. I KNEW it! You LOOK married.
Dr. Brubaker: My 3:00 patient jumped out of the window in the middle of his session. I have been running fifteen minutes ahead of schedule ever since.
The Girl: A stairway to nowhere! I think that's just elegant.
Dr. Brubaker: When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch.
Richard Sherman: Last night I scratched.
The Girl: I think it's just elegant to have an imagination. I just have no imagination at all. I have lots of other things, but I have no imagination.
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The Seven Year Itch Facts
Not without a distinct ring of irony, the 9-month-old Marilyn Monroe-Joe DiMaggio marriage officially ended during this shoot.
The screenplay was adapted from the original Broadway show "The Seven Year Itch" which was written by George Axelrod. The original Broadway show starred Tom Ewell (who reprised his role as the imaginative Richard Sherman) and Vanessa Brown. When the project was moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox, Brown was replaced by top sex symbol Marilyn Monroe for the film adaptation. Due to the Hays Office Production Code censorship rules, the racy dialogue and sexual innuendos were significantly toned down from the play.
Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress set a record when it was auctioned for $4.6 million in June 2011 (rising to $5.5 million after taxes and fees were included), quintupling the previous record for a movie costume ($923,000 for Audrey Hepburn's "little black dress" from Breakfast at Tiffany's).
Despite being one of the most iconic images in pop culture history, as well as one of the most recognizable photographs of Marilyn Monroe, the famous full-length image of Monroe standing with her dress being blown up never actually appears in the film. The shot used in the film is only of her legs, cut with reaction shots, and never shown full-length.
The film adaptation rights to the stage play "The Seven Year Itch" by George Axelrod had originally been bought by Paramount Pictures. After director Billy Wilder left Paramount, the project moved to 20th Century-Fox.
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