While a sultry headshot from Gene Kornman’s often reproduced 1952 photo shoot with Marilyn graces the cover of UK nostalgia magazine Yours Retro‘s May 2025 issue (#87), a colourised still from her most famous movie scene points to the real story, nearly 70 years after The Seven Year Itch first opened in June 1955.
Inside there’s a six-page feature about the making of the movie – amid Marilyn’s ongoing studio battles, and the collapse of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. The raucous shooting of the ‘skirt-blowing scene’ on a crowded New York street pushed the couple to breaking point, as the baseball legend struggled to cope with his wife’s sexpot image. Nonetheless, The Seven Year Itch proved to be one of Marilyn’s funniest, and most popular films.
This well-researched article was penned by Michelle Morgan, author of The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist.
And finally, this month’s Yours Retro also features a profile of Shelley Winters, who began her career in the blonde bombshell mould and became an Oscar-winning character actress. She wrote two candid memoirs, and was a fixture on the TV chat-show circuit. But while some of Shelley’s stories were exaggerated, her friendship with Marilyn – from their starlet days to the Golden Globes – seemed warm and genuine.
The Marilyn Report 