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The Seven Year Itch

1955

Rank

178

Score

82.72

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Added

6/16/21

Romance Comedy Film

Billy Wilder follows the story of a middle-aged husband in Manhattan who after sending his wife and kid away for the summer imagines having an affair with his new blond bombshell neighbor and has to decide if he wants to act on it.
Wilder creates a witty comedy that provides a platform for cementing Marilyn Monroe’s iconic image while exploring the themes of infidelity and paranoia satirical of 50’s puritanism.

DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder

Austrian-American film director, producer and screenwriter (1906-2002).

CAST

Marilyn Monroe

American (1926–1962)

Tom Ewell

American (1909–1994)

Evelyn Keyes

American (1916–2008)

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