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In the midst of a summer heat wave, New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) ships his wife, Helen, 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?

The title of “The Seven Year Itch” refers to the belief that marital happiness wanes after seven years. Both the director Billy Wilder and the screenwriter (and author of the original play) George Axelrod, as well as many contemporary critics and viewers believed that the limits set by the Hays Code greatly inhibited the film, excluding so-called "indecent" scenes and lines, thus making Richard's anxiety about cheating all the more absurd. This in turn has made both contemporary and modern critics express the opinion that it is Monroe who carries the film and her star power and on-screen charisma compensate for the missing scenes that the Hays code prohibited. Not to mention the subway grate scene that cemented Monroe in the annals of pop culture history...