The Seven Year Itch, which turns 70 this year, is showing at the Palace Nova in Prospect, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia, this Sunday, March 9 at 6:30 pm, as part of a weekend-long Movie Milestone Festival.
“There is no more potent image in American cinema than Marilyn, her white halter dress billowing in the breeze of a Manhattan subway grate. She is luminous in this lusty 1950s-time capsule about a doughy, middle-aged husband, liberated for the summer from his wife and son, who daydreams about the va-va-voom neighbour upstairs … The Seven Year Itch unspools in a sweltering un-air-conditioned New York City. The itch Richard Sherman longs to scratch is not a heat rash, but the 50s pox of repressed sexual urges … And Marilyn is such a feverish object of desire, it is amazing that the hero finally takes his canoe paddle up to Maine and his prim wifey, after all.”
– Laura Boyes, Movie Diva
The Marilyn Report 