The Seven Year Itch

Directed by legendary six-time Academy Award winner, Billy Wilder, and starring the iconic Marilyn Monroe, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, was an adaptation of a hit Broadway show of the same name and is today a classic romantic comedy. In the midst of a summer heat wave, 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 neighbour -- but will his fantasies about her become a reality? Wilder's 1955 comedy contains one of the most iconic pop culture images of the 20th century, in the form of Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress is blown upwards by a passing train.