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The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Marilyn Monroe , Tom Ewell , Billy Wilder  |  NR |  DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss
  • Directors: Billy Wilder
  • Writers: Billy Wilder, George Axelrod
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Surround), French (Mono)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
  • DVD Release Date: May 22, 2006
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000JF5TXO
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,700 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Seven Year Itch" on IMDb

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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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It's a steamy summer in New York City and this scandalous, sexy comedy heats things up even more! A married man (Tom Ewell), whose wife and son are away for the summer, has his fidelity put to the test when a seductive starlet (Marilyn Monroe) moves in upstairs. Keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves tough when challenged by the notorious "seven year itch." Faced with this provocative problem, he's victim to an outrageous mating dance filled with hilarious comedy!

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38 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Man, is this hot, and not because of the skirt scene September 20, 2003
Format:VHS Tape
"Chapter 6-the Brubaker-Steichel theory of the sporadic infidelity pattern of the married male, or the Seven Year Itch."

Having sent his wife Helen and son Ricky to Maine to avoid the scorching July Manhattan summer, Richard Sherman, "keymaster" of a pocket edition publisher, stays behind to work, promising his wife to abstain from drinking and smoking. "Some husbands think just because their wives are away for the summer, they can run wild." However, the appearance of a young blonde renting his upstairs neighbours' apartment turns his life topsy-turvy, turning him into a bundle of nerves.

Sherman approves the covers of the pulp books: "Soup up the title a little, get yourself a cheerful and interesting cover. It's a question of imagination, and Mr. Sherman has a lot of it," says the narrator. To quote his wife and as a promoting film technology gag, "lately, you've been imagining in Cinemascope and Stereophonic sound." From his imagination, including a parody of the beach scene in From Here To Eternity, we learn that he doesn't feel he's good-looking or charismatic. It's his time with The Girl that changes him. His imagination ranges from the humorous, ridiculous, even paranoid. And he reveals his thoughts in soliloquys, which at times resemble trains-of-thought or even his subconscious.

The Girl turns out to be a typical blonde, but fun-loving, friendly, with simple tastes, understanding, trusting, and as it turns out, compassionate as seen from her sympathy for the creature of the black lagoon: "He wasn't really all bad. I think he just craved a little affection, you know. A sense of being wanted and needed." Oh, and she's definitely not a Rachmaninoff girl.

My take on the skirt scene?...

The key trends of vegetarian cuisine, the coaxial cable, 50,000,000 TV viewers, and Arthur Godfrey are time capsule elements exemplified in the America of 1955.

Tom Ewell, who reprised his role from the George Axelrod play of the same name, must be one lucky actor. After this movie, he played opposite another blonde, Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It.

Robert Strauss is funny as Kruhulik the lecherous greasy-looking janitor, who quotes from Porgy and Bess to describe the antics of summer bachelors: "Summertime, an' the livin' is easy, when the fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high." Doro Merande has a funny line as a waitress whose pro-naturalist camp stance extends to pacifist sentiments. And Carolyn Jones, best known as Morticia Addams, plays a red-haired nurse smitten by Sherman in an imagination sequence.

For me, this is Marilyn's best picture and best character. I fell in love with her upon first seeing this. Now, though, I consider her an old friend. So, calling all the lonely creatures of the lagoon like me out there with great imagination and no esteem. Don't give up hope--there's a Girl waiting out there for you. Read more ›

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30 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars THE ULTIMATE MARILYN..... November 15, 2002
Format:DVD
This is the ultimate Monroe film. The one where she stands over a subway grating on a hot summer night to feel the rush of cool air from the trains passing beneath---the rush of air blowing the skirt of her sexy white halter dress up around her. But there's a movie that goes with this legendary image and it's a classic. Based on the adult Broadway play, "Itch" was watered down for the screen and stars Tom Ewell as the frustrated married man and Monroe as the Girl Upstairs. One hot New York summer, a man sends his wife and small son away for the summer---as all New York men do this time of the year according to Ewells' narration. He's left alone in their apartment to struggle with his vices---cigarettes and booze---when all of a sudden the Girl moves in sub-letting the apartment upstairs. She's a TV model and commercial actress and delightfully portrayed by Monroe. The homely and dumpy Ewell begins having steamy sex fantasies visualizing himself as a powerful lover irrestible to women. Monroe wants to be neighborly so she keeps inviting herself down to his flat frustrating the hopelessly timid Ewell. She doesn't realize her effect on him but he's got an air condtioner and it's hot upstairs. She's completely guileless. Monroe is perfect as the Girl and Ewell personifies the Everyman confronted with temptation when left to his own devices. Monroe is breathtaking in Technicolor and her performance speaks volumes about her comic potential. The subway grating scene caps her legend as a sex symbol but when you watch her performance here you see she was so much more than that.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Blu-ray release! August 1, 2012
By Mothee
Format:Blu-ray
I picked this up because I'm a huge Billy Wilder fan and I've never seen the film. It's fantastic! Beautiful HD transfer. Wonderful humor from the times that still feels relevant and a big "stick it" to the Hays Code.

The best part about this though is the special features. Commentary, picture-in-picture history lesson on the Hays Code, multiple featurettes. It's a great release!
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Marilyn Movie May 15, 2000
Format:VHS Tape
I am a huge fan of Marilyn and my goal is to see all of her movies and when I saw "The 7 Year Itch" I was blown away. Marilyn was wonderful in the movie playing the sexy girl upstairs that attracts an older man living downstairs while his wife and son are away for summer vacation. I think everyone who loves Marilyn Monroe should see this movie it is one of her best and i'm sure that u will soon agree.
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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars When I think of Marilyn , my mind clicks immediately to January 12, 2005
Format:VHS Tape
her role as the girl upstairs in The Seven Year Itch. Not just her dress billowing up above her waist ,but the whole package, like her waving from the second floor window. Wow. Almost a great movie but definately great Marilyn. She's doing her "dumb blonde" routine. But don't hate her for doing it so well. It was good acting. She was not dumb. A word about Tom Ewell. He perfected
his role on stage & I would have loved to seen that. As the protagonist he carries the movie. The movie is dated, sexist, & P.I... for our time. For all I know people acted like this in New York City in the mid-50's (I'm not sure, I was five).
I do know the censors were childish tyrants, afraid of sex. Who were thse (...)?
Marilyn pulled this off while her personal life was crumbling. The numerous takes of her dress billowing up were gratuitous & demeaning. Her husband, Joe Dimaggio watching the whole thing was enraged & embarassed. I don't blame him. It may have been the last nail in the coffin that was their marriage. Very sad.
Marilyn was a much better actress then she was ever given credit for in her lifetime. We had mere glimpses of that (Bus Stop & Niagra). But for the sheer joy of Marilyn Monroe, at her comic peak, this is the movie to remember her by.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Seven Star Rating!
I love everything about this movie. For one thing, it is truly hilarious. Tommy Ewelle is SO great as the "every man" so badly wanting to be "good" while his wife... Read more
Published 2 days ago by Joy E. Laine
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good and Ahead of It's Time
Growing up during the 1950's, our family saw a lot of movies at the local drive-in on weekends. This wasn't one of them. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Lawrence S. Stepanowicz
5.0 out of 5 stars A real classic
Marilyn Monroe at her sexiest in this 20th century classic.
Subway winds cool her off on this hot night and provide the shot of a lifetime.
Published 11 days ago by Michelle Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars The Seven year Itch
I love old movies you have a great collection will continue to buy many more. Every time I think of a movie that I would like
you have it.
Published 14 days ago by Lorraine Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Cute!
Collector's item for sure. Happy to give this one as a gift. Happy to find it here! Fun movie. Fun memories!
Published 21 days ago by Free Shipping - ValueRays®
5.0 out of 5 stars super great movie
history remains alive till date, nice movie cool acting of Marilyn , it was not too long , will watch more of this kind
Published 24 days ago by Bossoondyal Nundkeswarsingh Suraj
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining. !!! Vintage in Age, yet like occurring now.
Performance, delivery, happening, story all make this an enjoyable, uplifting, and fun evening of viewing. Seems like an ageless movie. Smile a Lot. Laugh a lot. Read more
Published 1 month ago by tink
3.0 out of 5 stars not bad, just okay
Not the glamorous Marilyn we are use to seeing. This must of been one of her first movies, because she seemed a little green.
Published 1 month ago by Jeanette Felix
5.0 out of 5 stars Bombshell favorite
I received The Seven Year Itch Bluray as a Christmas gift. I heard it arrived quickly in time for Christmas. The bluray is clear and the sound great. I love it! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Xicily
5.0 out of 5 stars Just buy it NOW!
I have only seen this movie on a 16mm film chain. This fabulous 5.1 blue ray is amazing. Its just
like it must have been in a premium movie theater in 1955 with a magnetic... Read more
Published 2 months ago by R Peterson
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