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MONROE

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

The major attraction here is Monroe who holds every scene she is in.

Tom Ewell plays a city husband freed up for the summer when his wife and kid take off to Maine.

The play was quite famous for groundbreaking sex and language. All this was removed for the film so it is a bit bland and shows. You can see the stage play behind the film scenes.

The famous dress scene is shown here.

It is a period piece.

It is directed by Billy Wilder but my guess is that he did it for the money.

I will give it a 2 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films