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The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay with George Axelrod. Based on Axelrod's 1952 play of the same name, the film stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, with the latter reprising his stage role.
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The Seven Year Itch: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts. When his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbor.
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The seven-year itch is a popular belief, sometimes quoted as having psychological backing, that happiness in a marriage or long-term romantic relationship declines after around seven years. [1]
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The Seven Year Itch, American comedy film, released in 1955, that was an adaptation of a hit Broadway show of the same name and featured a memorable performance by Marilyn Monroe.
Reprising his Broadway role, Tom Ewell played Richard Sherman, a middle-aged book editor whose wife and son are leaving their Manhattan home for the summer. On the evening after their departure, Richard encounters an attractive young woman (Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs. Over the next two days, he begins to spend time with her, even escorting her to dinner and a movie, but he is constantly wracked with nerves as he desperately tries to control his libido. Finally, beset by guilt and fear, he decides to escape the situation and join his family in Maine.
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•Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox
•Director: Billy Wilder
•Producers: Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder
•Writers: Billy Wilder and George Axelrod
•Music: Alfred Newman
•Running time: 105 minutes
•Marilyn Monroe (The Girl)
•Tom Ewell (Richard Sherman)
•Evelyn Keyes (Helen Sherman)
•Sonny Tufts (Tom MacKenzie)
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Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell), a publishing executive with an overactive imagination, sends his wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and son Ricky (Butch Bernard) to Maine for the summer. Sherman works for Brady & Co, who specialize in publishing pocket editions of the old classics. Mr. Brady (Donald MacBride) is his boss.
