bombersflyup The Seven Year Itch is a watchable film with enough interesting content, though lacking in its labelled areas of comedy and romance.The start of the film is a bit of a struggle, I didn't much care for the Richard character and I didn't like how he is thinking out loud and then doing what he is thinking, it is quite annoying. The point of inner dialogue to add the character's thoughts because they aren't actively doing anything or to be doing something and thinking something different or to explain what you are currently doing or seeing. The scene with Dr. Brubaker, I recall being the most entertaining. Marilyn Munroe was fine, lifting the level of the film somewhat, but to no great heights for me.

weezeralfalfa Something I would have expected Woody Allen to come up with! The primary reason for me to see this is to see and hear the stunningly elegant, adorable, Marilyn Monroe in a movie where she is not scripted as a gold digger. She has a NYC summer job advertising dazzledent toothpaste, thus has moved into the apartment above the Shermans. Mr. Richard Sherman has sent his wife and boy to a cooler Maine for the summer. Having time on his hands, he decides to try to get acquainted with this gorgeous creature, who also has lots of spare time. She begins by knocking a flower pot off her patio that nearly beans Richard. Before this, she called a plumber to extract her big toe from the bathtub faucet, she having stuck it in to try to stop it leaking!?This film had to be toned down from the stage version to get past the Hays Commission. Thus, some of the humor was lost, but probably some more was added. Tom Ewell, who played Richard Sherman in the Broadway stage version, was tapped to star in this film version. Marilyn , for some reason, is never given a name other than the anonymous "The girl". This has led some to wonder if she is supposed to be purely a daydream, as clearly she is in one segment. Although Richard has never been a philanderer, he now has daydreams that his secretary is madly in love with him, and that he is making love to his wife's best friend in the surf, in mimicry of the famous scene in "From Here to Eternity". Sherman tells a psychiatrist that he suspects he's suffering from 'The seven year itch': a recognized stage in many marriages. He feels guilty and imagines that his wife finds out and shoots him. Finally, he decides he has to leave this situation. So he packs up and joins his family in Mains, telling 'the girl' that she can stay in his air-conditioned apartment until he returns.In past centuries, the idiom "Seven year itch" referred to persistent itches caused by parasites, rashes, dry skin, etc.. This film did much to promote its modern usage, as a means of expressing the all too common phenomenon of a reduction in marital satisfaction over the years. This is supported by data that says the average divorce happens after 7 years of marriage. The German politician Gabriele Pauli famously suggested that marriage licenses should be good for only 7 years, after which they could be renewed, if both parties agree.

classicsoncall This movie probably holds the record for at least two categories I can think of. First, it's got the greatest amount of on screen dialog by a character talking to himself. And secondly, the story references more movie titles than any other picture I can think of. I came up with the following - "Riot in Cell Block 11" (1954); "From Here to Eternity" (1953); "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945); and ""Creature From the Black Lagoon" (1954). All but Dorian Gray were relative contemporaries of this one, made within a couple years of "The Seven Year Itch".So I guess the time and place for a picture like this was the 1950's. Along with "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) and "Some Like it Hot" (1959), both of which also star Marilyn Monroe, the story telling consisted of libido saturated men salivating over ditzy women and the complications that arise during the chase. Time and tastes would eventually put these kind of pictures out of favor and I guess that's why they have a dated feel to them today. One could make the case that they're chauvinistic to a fault and you wouldn't get much push back from me on that score.But just like the racial references one finds in pictures of the Thirties and Forties when blacks were called 'boy' and Chinese were 'Chinks', it's interesting to see the evolution of society and the movies that reflect those attitudes in each ensuing decade on the big screen. "The Seven Year Itch" is like a movie version of a TV sit-com one might have caught during the era, but with a subject matter a bit too intimidating for family fare.I've never been a big fan of Marilyn Monroe and her film comedies generally leave me feeling ambivalent regarding her talent. The one picture in which she does leave a significant impression is 1961's "The Misfits" where she uses her eyes expressively to reveal the pain of her character. Had her life not been cut short we might have seen more influential work from this actress who's legacy primarily rests on scenes like the one in this picture, skirt billowing in an updraft to reveal the hint of sexuality for which the blonde actress was primarily known.Tom Ewell, with his hilarious facials and discombobulated lack of self confidence is the perfect foil for 'The Girl" in this story. Unable to pull the trigger on his infatuation for the girl upstairs, Richard Sherman (Ewell) represents the Everyman who considers himself a Casanova, but underneath it all, is firmly anchored to the idea of one man, one woman, at least as the institution of marriage existed in the Fifties. An insight into his cluelessness was confirmed when he needed the entire Manhattan phone book to look up the number of his upstairs neighbor.

Matthew Luke Brady Richard Sherman: "Oh no. Not today".The story to The Seven Year Itch is about a 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 (Marilyn Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs, and becomes immediately infatuated. While pondering infidelity, Richard dreams of his beautiful new neighbor - - but will his fantasies about her become a reality?I couple of days ago it just came to me that I haven't seen any movies starring the icon herself Marilyn Monroe. I mean wow how can I go through life without seeing the most ionic actress of all time on the screen showing her brilliance in front of my eyes, but I rather waste my time watching garbage Hollywood movies release today and I know I can skip them and already skipped some movies that I had zone interest in, but for the bad movies from this year will be in my worst movies of 2015 list which is coming out at the end of December, because if your going to make the best list of the year you got to have the worse as well. But anywhere I'm only seeing these classic one by one, because it's all about perfect timing to watch them if I'm in the kind of mood to watching them, but after noticing that I haven't seen any Marilyn Monroe films so I quickly went to watch one of her films and I picked this movie and it was a good pick.Tom Ewell who plays the love himself thinking he can get any women he likes kind of guy and he was a funny character. Tom really played he's character really well as he made his character likability and understandable. He had great line delivers and in a way he's a bit like some men out there that can't get a date and think that every women wants them, and I think a lot of people can relate to that by the character and Tom Ewell great performance.Now let's talk about the great beauty herself, Marilyn Monroe and by the first sentence of "Hi", I already liked her. This is my first movie that I've seen starring Monroe and this is a performance worth waiting for because she was so adorable and just unforgettable and as I said before her first ever sentence won me over just like that. Marilyn Monroe gave a brilliant performance that I'm going to check out her other movies pretty soon. Nicely done Marilyn.The chemistry between Monroe and Ewell was spot on perfect. Both of them had great scenes together that made them look like the perfect couple that some people wish for. I think it's something to do with the writing and the actors themselves as they the ones one pulled it off and made it worked, so I give the actors credit for that. The comedy was good, the directing was great and extremely well done, the character's & actors made the chemistry funny and watchable.Now for problems: This movie was release in the 50's and yeah I know the 50's can have it's goofy judging by the movie that was release at that time and I'm mostly given for that, but this movie takes it up the walls, I mean these a scene where Tom Ewell character has day dreams of women falling for him and that scene alone took me out a little bit as it was like the movie was trying to push the message into me face saying "Look he loves himself and he's kind of lonely, isn't that just sad, or just look at that". I already got the message that this guy is lonely as he talks to himself maybe to the fact that he's been alone for a while, but beside that nick pick I still enjoyed the movie.Overall The Seven Year Itch in my opinion is a good comedy as the acting and character's made the movie want it is.