The Seven Year Itch | 
| Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 4840
Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.8
MPN: FOXD2236115D
UPC: 024543261155
EAN: 0024543261155
ASIN: B000JF5TXO
Theatrical Release Date: June 3, 1955
Release Date: May 29, 2001
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Product Description
A married man finds himself living like a bachelor when his wife goes on vacation. He discovers a model neighbor. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/30/2006 Starring: Tom Ewell Evelyn Keyes
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A married man, left alone during a hot summer, fantasizes madly about the impossibly gorgeous woman living in the upstairs apartment. When the woman is Marilyn Monroe, such fantasies are the stuff of epics, and The Seven Year Itch is a memorable laugh machine. Tom Ewell, repeating his role from George Axelrod's Broadway hit, plays the itchy protagonist, whose vivid imagination gets the better of him. When Monroe finally comes downstairs and becomes friends (confiding, among other things, that she keeps her undies in the icebox in this hot weather), imagination meets reality in a merciless attack on the male libido. Ewell's crack timing is matched by Monroe's zesty comic flair, and the scene in which her white dress is blown skyward by a passing subway train has entered the encyclopedia of great movie images. Director Billy Wilder adapted the play with Axelrod; if the film is not one of Wilder's signature works (Some Like It Hot and The Apartment would soon follow), it is nevertheless a smoothly crafted comedy. --Robert Horton
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 Marilyn Monroe's most famous May 31, 2009
Timica (Crescent City, CA USA)
This is a very good movie. Tim and I both enjoyed it, and i collect MM movies so this is one you got to have!
-Member girlfriend Jessica
HILARIOUS!! March 19, 2009
Raonaid (NY)
Roaringly funny! I would give it ten stars if I could! I would recommend this to anyone and everyone. After watching, I have a new respect of Marilyn Monroe. Classic and ageless.
 MARILYN IS GORGEOUS! March 18, 2009
Noel Serrano (Tampa, Florida United States)
The 1955 film version was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Marilyn Monroe and Ewell, reprising his Broadway role. It contains one of the most iconic images of the 20th century-Monroe standing on a subway grate as her dress is blown above her knees by a passing train.
Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) sends his wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and son Ricky (Butch Bernard) to Maine to escape the summer heat. When he returns home, he meets The Girl (Marilyn Monroe), a model who is renting the apartment upstairs while she is in town to make television spots for a toothpaste. That evening, while proofing a book by psychiatrist Dr. Brubaker (Oskar Homolka), claiming that a significant proportion of men have extra-marital affairs in the seventh year of marriage, he has an imaginary conversation with Helen, trying to "convince" her, in three fantasy sequences, that he is irresistible to women, but she laughs off his assertion. A tomato plant then crashes into his lounge chair; The Girl accidentally knocked it over, and apologizes. Richard invites her to come down for a drink.
As he waits for her to put on her underwear that she keeps cool in the refrigerator and gets dressed, Richard has a fantasy that The Girl is a femme fatale overcome by his playing of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. While playing Chopsticks (above), Richard, back in his fantasy, grabs The Girl in a bear hug, causing them to fall off the piano bench. She shrugs off it, but he is immediately contrite, and asks her to leave.
Over the next few days, they grow closer. His resolve to resist temptation in all of its many forms fuels his fear that he is succumbing to the 'Seven Year Itch'. He seeks out Dr. Brubaker for help, but to no avail. His imagination then kicks into overdrive: Helen and Ricky watch The Girl on TV as she warns the women of New York City about "this monster named Richard Sherman"; The Girl tells a plumber (Victor Moore) how Richard is "just like The Creature from the Black Lagoon"; the plumber repeats her story to the horrified patrons of the vegetarian restaurant Richard ate at; the Shermans' hunky neighbour, Tom McKenzie (Sonny Tufts), arranges for he and Helen to be alone on a hayride; a wronged Helen returns home to exact her revenge. The fantasies turn Richard into a paranoid wreck.
After a crazed confrontation with McKenzie, whom Helen has asked to drop by to pick up Ricky's canoe paddle, Richard comes to his senses. He tells The Girl she can stay at his apartment, then runs off to catch the next train to Maine.
The movie was filmed between September 1 and November 4, 1954, and was the only Wilder film released by 20th Century Fox.
The characters of Elaine (Dolores Rosedale}, Marie, and the inner-voices of Sherman and The Girl were dropped; the characters of the Plumber, Miss Finch (Carolyn Jones), the Waitress (Doro Merande), and Kruhulik the janitor (Robert Strauss) were added. Many lines and scenes from the play were cut or re-written because they were deemed indecent by the Hays office. Axelrod and Wilder complained that the film was being made under straitjacketed conditions. This led to a major plot change: in the play, Sherman and The Girl become intimate; in the movie, the romance is all in his head.
The footage of Monroe's dress billowing over a subway grate was shot twice: The first take was shot at Manhattan's Lexington Avenue at 52nd Street and the second on a sound stage. The sound stage footage is what made its way into the final film, as the original on-location footage's sound had been rendered useless by the over excited crowd present during filming.
Footage of Walter Matthau testing for Sherman is featured in the DVD of the film. Nicolas Roeg's film Insignificance features a character based on Monroe and a re-enactment of the subway/dress scene.
Perfect delivery time. February 14, 2009
Jose Rosado (Virginia, USA)
I got amazed how short i have to wait to get the dvd. The delivery time was excellent.
"Calomine Won't Work on this One" October 10, 2008
Phoebe Stogstill (by the shores of Gitchee Goomie)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you combine the humorous Walter Mitty-type fantasies with a senario that includes a male writer staying at home for the summer to write, a wife and kid shipped off to avoid the heat, a voluptuous, georgeous new female neighbor that needs to chat, needs advice, and knows just who to ask, and sweltering temperatures in all areas, well, you have one of the funniest of comedies on film. It is not long before we realize the little scenes we often see are in Tom Ewell's head, wishful thinking on his part. Marilyn plays it as only Marylin can. Of course if Tom got to realize any of his fantasies, it would not be the same, and it is the reaching for but not quite grasping, and Marilyn's innocence at not knowing all the havoc she is wreaking in this man's limbic system, that make this film. That and the white-dress scene.
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