The Seven Year Itch (1955)

★ 7.1 1h 45m IMDb

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

The Seven Year Itch

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Cast

Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe as The Girl Died 1962 · Los Angeles, California, USA Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex sym...
Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman Died 1994 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his...
Evelyn Keyes
Evelyn Keyes as Helen Sherman Died 2008 · Port Arthur, Texas, USA Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 - July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes came out to Hollywood and was introduced to Cecil B. DeMille, who in her own words,...
Sonny Tufts
Sonny Tufts as Tom MacKenzie Died 1970 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sonny Tufts (born Bowen Charlton Tufts III, July 16, 1911, Boston, Massachusetts - June 4, 1970, Santa Monica, California) was a United States film actor. Tuft...
Robert Strauss
Robert Strauss as M. Kruhulik Died 1975 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Strauss (November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975) was a gravel-voiced American actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Strauss (actor), l...
Oskar Homolka
Oskar Homolka as Dr. Brubaker Died 1978 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor. Homolka's strong accent, stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and Slavic-sounding name led many to believe he wa...

Audience Reviews

Nutshell 7/10 Aug 03, 2019
A funny film, though not Wilder's best, possibly due to the limits forced here by the censor board. Monroe is at her peak here, and Tom Ewell reprises his role well from the broadway stage.
CinemaSerf 6/10 Jan 17, 2024
Tom Ewell is the happily married "Richard" whose family have gone away for a few weeks leaving him all alone with his manuscript and soft drinks that sound like gut-rot in a bottle! His wife "Helen" always calls him at 10pm so he must stay awake til then, and whilst waiting his vivid imagination often kicks in! That's only more concentrated when his new upstairs neighbour (Marilyn Monroe) calls in to say hello. He's smitten! She is the epitome of his desires and as their friendship blossoms, he finds his fantasies become racier and racier, more and more fanciful and all entirely unfulfilled! What now ensues might have worked better for me had Ewell been a bit better an actor, but he doesn't really deliver very well here and we wait way too long for Monroe to come and brighten things up. She has excellent timing, and looks every inch the apple of the eye as she innocently and charmingly drives poor old "Richard" to the brink! The comedy is decently written though resorts a little too much to slapstick for it's execution and I thought the joke became just a little bit laboured after an hour or so of slightly repetitive and contrived scenarios. Not one of Billy Wilder's better films, even if a passing subway train gives us some cinema history. A sort of parody of "Beauty and the Beast", perhaps, but all just a little too tame.

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