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Bookmark this pageThe Seven Year Itch (1955)
Director: Billy Wilder
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Fondly remembered as the film in which Marilyn has problems with her skirt on a New York subway grating, this isn't quite the smasheroo that Some Like It Hot is: Monroe flaunts her attributes too blatantly, and seems less human because of it, while George Axelrod's play, fresh and risqué in the '50s, now appears a little obvious and over-plotted. Writer Tom Ewell's wife goes on a summer vacation, and the timid hubby becomes a flaming ball of sex, but - as with most Axelrod heroes (Roddy McDowall in Lord Love a Duck, Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife) - it's all in the mind.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: Billy Wilder
Producer: Charles K Feldman, Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Victor Moore, Oscar Homolka, Carolyn Jones, Robert Strauss full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 105 mins
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