The Seven Year Itch
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Movie Review: Monroe was Monroe
Summary: 2 Stars
The only thing this movie has going for it is Marilyn Monroe, and that's just not enough. Tom Ewell plays a blundering fool who loses his competence at the very sight of her. If there are laughs in this advertised comedy, I must have dozed off at the time.
The setting is New York of a bygone era, complete with Automats and sans universal air conditioning. I lived there then. Ewell's wife and family have gone to the sticks to avoid the summer heat, and Monroe has taken the apartment upstairs. Ewell's mouth falls open at the scent of her, as he tries to woo her into his--his--he's not sure what, but to his lair, for starters.
There's the famous scene of MM standing over the subway grid and having her skirt blow up to reveal her legs. The giant cutout of that on Times Square revealed more than is revealed in the movie. It offended Joe DiMaggio, her husband, but it had little to do with the movie. The one memorable line was the claim that MM kept her daities in the "ice box" during the summer.
The movie is dated, silly and a little embarrassing. Monroe did better.