The Best Marilyn Monroe Movie: The Seven Year Itch

What's The Seven Year Itch all about?

Richard Sherman sends his wife and son for holidays in the country for a few weeks and remains himself in New York in order to work. Leaving the station he laughs at those men whose wife just went away, looking at beautiful and young women, thinking to those things they are going to do: going out every night, dancing, playing, drinking, smoking and... prawling! Mr Sherman won't fall in that trap! No way! He's just going to spend these weeks alone, at home and worried only by his work.

However, as he gets back home in the evening, he meets a new neighbour: a beautiful model who's renting the flat on the next floor; the Girl. And the adventure begins: while proof-reading a psychiatrist book related to the "seven year itch", a tomato vase falls down in his garden, breaking a chair. Although it's the model's fault, the man invites her to have a drink in his apartment. Over the days, they spend some time together but he get tempted more and more by the Girl.

This temptation and the reading of the book written by Dr Brubaker, the psychiatrist, feed his overflowing imagination so much that it all turns into paranoia. He dreams of the caretaker calling his wife to tell his extra-marital adventures, a friend coming home and asking for an explanation, his wife arriving from the country to kill him and even the Girl speaking about their relationship on TV. Fortunately, thanks to the Girl, he will recover all his senses and leave the Big Apple to join his wife and son, leaving his apartment to the neighbour.

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Marilyn Monroe, aka Norma Jean Baker, was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. She began her career as model but signed her first contract with the 20th Century Fox very quickly after having been noticed by Howard Hughes. Marilyn Monroe became a Hollywood star and a sex-symbol in the early fifties and played roles in successful movies such as The Seven Year Itch, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot, and The Misfits.

Being a star has downsides and Monroe vainly researched happiness throughout her life. She got married three times; the first one when she was only sixteen with James Dougherty, the second time with Joe Di Maggio and the last time with Arthur Miller. She committed suicide on August 5th, 1962 and entered the legend, becoming an icon of the cinema.

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The Seven Year Itch

Quick Facts:


• Directed by ---> Billy Wilder
• Produced by ---> Charles K. Feldman & Billy Wilder
• Written by ---> George Axelrod & Billy Wilder
• Distributed by ---> 20th Century Fox
• Release date ---> June 3, 1955
Casting:


• Evelyn Keyes ---> Helen Sherman
• The Girl ---> Marilyn Monroe
• Sonny Tufts ---> Tom Mackenzie
• Tom Ewell ---> Richard Sherman
• Carolyn Jones ---> Miss Finch
• Dolores Rosedale ---> Elaine
• Donald Macbride ---> Mr. Brady
• Marguerite Chapman ---> Miss Morris
• Oskar Homolka ---> Dr. Brubaker
• Robert Strauss ---> Mr. Kruhulik
• Victor Moore ---> Plombier

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