The Seven Year Itch

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Marilyn Monroe + a white dress + a NYC subway grate = Hollywood history!  In this scandalous, sexy comedy co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell), in the midst of a sweltering summer heat wave, ships his wife, Helen (Evelyn Keyes), and their son off to Maine for vacation.   Left alone to work back in Manhattan, Richard encounters a gorgeous, good-hearted blonde model (Monroe) who is subleasing the non-air conditioned upstairs apartment while the owners are away for the summer, and he immediately becomes infatuated.  While pondering infidelity, Richard dreams of his bewitching new neighbor, leading to a series of comical misadventures.   Will his fantasies about her become a reality, or is she merely interested in his air conditioning?   Or maybe this will just prove to a be a temporary case of The Seven Year Itch brought on by the summer heat?  A saucy Eisenhower-era sex comedy featuring Marilyn Monroe delivering one of her most iconic performances – effortlessly combining ditzy humor, sneaky smarts and genuine pathos – and offering up one of the most iconic movie star images in cinema history thanks to that white dress and air-puffing subway grate, The Seven Year Itch is a classic summer comedy for the ages. (Dir. by Billy Wilder, 1955, USA, 105 mins., Not Rated)