The Seven Year Itch
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The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay with George Axelrod. Based on Axelrod's 1952 play, the film stars Marilyn Monroe and T
Ewell reprised his Broadway role and Monroe replaced Vanessa Brown
Monroe posing for photographers while filming the famous subway grate scene for the film, September 1954
Drive-in advertisement from 1955
Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an embl
The Seven Year Itch
…American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay with George Axelrod. Based on Axelrod's 1952 play, the film stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, with the latter reprising his stage role. It contains one of the most iconic pop culture images of the 20th century, in the form of…
Monroe in 1953
Monroe as an infant, c. 1927
Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44. They married when she was sixteen and divorced in 1946, when she was twenty.
A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in 1944 at the Radioplane Company