The vision of Helen continues to chuckle as Richard dramatically spins a tall tale about being romantically accosted by his secretary, Miss Morris a nurse and Helen's own best friend, Elaine. As Richard debates the matter, he imagines Helen sitting opposite him on the patio and hears her laugh when he states that he is attractive to other women.
Before long, however, Richard begins pondering Helen's intention to call him at 10:00 and decides that she must not trust him, even though he has been faithful during their seven years of marriage.
Determined to enjoy a quiet evening, Richard resolves not to think about The Girl, whose name he did not learn, and returns to Brubaker's book. A stunning blonde enters and tells Richard that she is his new neighbor, as she is renting the apartment above his for the summer, and the awestruck Richard's neck cracks alarmingly as he cranes to watch her ascend the stairs. Ludwig Brubaker, when he is interrupted by the outside door buzzer. After a bland, healthy dinner, Richard goes home and is about to work on a new manuscript, Of Man and the Unconscious by Dr. Richard returns to his office at Brady & Co., where his unusually vivid imagination helps in the designing the company's lurid covers of paperbacks. After agreeing to Helen's admonitions not to smoke or drink, Richard briefly joins the other "summer bachelors" in ogling a pretty woman, but firmly tells himself that he will not be like other husbands who run amok while their families are away. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 86%.One hot summer in Manhattan, book editor Richard Sherman escorts his wife Helen and son Ricky to the train station, from which they and numerous other families are leaving to escape the city's heat. This led to a major plot change: in the play, Sherman and The Girl had sex in the movie, the romance is all in his head. Though Hollywood production codes prohibited writer-director Billy Wilder from filming a comedy where adultery takes place, the review expressed disappointment that Sherman remains chaste.Īxelrod and Wilder complained that the film was being made under straitjacketed conditions. The original 1955 review in Variety was largely positive.
In SABRINA, also directed by Wilder and released a year prior this film, the character of Humphrey Bogart tells his brother that he went with Audrey Hepburn’s titular character to see The Seven Year Itch, which was on Broadway at that time. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists. It contains one of the most notable images of the 20th century – Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress is blown upwards by a passing train. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role from the play. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH is a 1955 American CinemaScope romantic comedy film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod. When his family goes away for the summer, a so far faithful husband is tempted by a beautiful neighbor.
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