The Seven Year Itch

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The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
romantic comedy film
aspectRatio CinemaScope
basedOn The Seven Year Itch self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Seven Year Itch (play)
basedOnWorkAuthor George Axelrod
castMember Evelyn Keyes
Oskar Homolka
surface form: Oscar Homolka

Robert Strauss
Sonny Tufts
cinematography Milton R. Krasner
colorProcess DeLuxe Color
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Billy Wilder
distributedInFormat theatrical release
distributor 20th Century Fox
surface form: Twentieth Century-Fox
editedBy Hugh S. Fowler NERFINISHED
era 1950s American cinema
famousFor Marilyn Monroe’s white dress blowing up over a subway grate
filmingLocation Los Angeles
New York City
genre romantic comedy
satire
hasTheme marital fidelity
midlife crisis
urban summer isolation
leadActorRole Marilyn Monroe as The Girl
Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
mainCharacter Richard Sherman
The Girl
motionPictureRating Production Code era film
musicBy Alfred Newman
narrativeDevice fantasy sequences
notableScene subway-grate dress scene with Marilyn Monroe
originalLanguage English
portrays male temptation and infidelity fantasies
mid-century American marriage
producer Charles K. Feldman
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
surface form: Twentieth Century-Fox
releaseDate 1955-06-01
releaseYear 1955
runtimeMinutes 105
screenplayAdaptationType stage-to-film adaptation
screenwriter Billy Wilder
George Axelrod
setIn New York City
starring Marilyn Monroe
Tom Ewell
title The Seven Year Itch self-link

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Marilyn Monroe notableWork The Seven Year Itch
Billy Wilder directed The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch title The Seven Year Itch self-link
The Seven Year Itch basedOn The Seven Year Itch self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Seven Year Itch (play)
Samuel Wilder notableWork The Seven Year Itch
George Axelrod notableWork The Seven Year Itch
George Axelrod wrotePlay The Seven Year Itch
George Axelrod adaptedWork The Seven Year Itch
this entity surface form: The Seven Year Itch (film adaptation)
Lionel Newman notableWork The Seven Year Itch
this entity surface form: The Seven Year Itch (music)
I. A. L. Diamond notableWork The Seven Year Itch
this entity surface form: The Seven Year Itch (screenplay adaptation work)
Daniel Mandell edited The Seven Year Itch
Oskar Homolka notableWork The Seven Year Itch