Marilyn Monroe 100: The Seven Year Itch

Adapted from a hit Broadway show, Billy Wilder's (Some Like it Hot) first film with Marilyn Monroe features one of the most iconic pop culture images of the 20th century. Not bad for a girl playing "the girl".
In the midst of a summer heat wave, New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) ships his wife, Helen (Evelyn Keyes), and their son off to Maine for vacation. Left alone to work back in Manhattan, Richard encounters a gorgeous blonde model (Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs, and becomes immediately infatuated. While pondering infidelity, Richard dreams of his beautiful new neighbour -- but will his fantasies about her become a reality?
If the face that launched a thousand ships was a scene from a film, Monroe's white dress moment would be it. That dress didn't just catch air, it caught the attention of the world over, including the National Legion of Decency. Themes of infidelity and a four-story high cutout of Monroe in NYC grated them the wrong way.
Screening as part of Marilyn Monroe 100 at QFT, a season celebrating 100 years of a screen icon.