Richard quickly dismisses Krahulik, then welcomes the Girl, a bubbly, naïve model who appears in television commercials. When the doorbell rings, Richard comes out of his reverie and instead finds Krahulik, the building's janitor who has come to take the rugs. 2 and imagines himself seducing the Girl with his magnificent playing of the powerful music. While searching for mood music, Richard selects Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. Nonplussed by the Girl's announcement that she leaves her underwear in the refrigerator to keep cool, Richard frantically prepares for her visit. The Girl, who was watering the plants, apologizes for knocking over the plant, and Richard invites her for a drink. After hanging up, Richard gets up just before a huge tomato plant from the upstairs balcony crashes into his chair. Richard is disconcerted to hear that she ran into Tom MacKenzie, a writer of lurid romances, on the train to Maine, yet promises that he is following her advice.
Helen chides Richard for imagining things in CinemaScope with stereophonic sound, then disappears, but before Richard can return to his manuscript, the real Helen telephones early. 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. Adults will find a few chuckles, and maybe even a guffaw, here and there, but if your kids are wondering what the big deal about Marilyn Monroe is, show them Some Like It Hot.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. She doesn't seem truly engaged in the material, which isn't that strong, and seems to be phoning it in a bit - there's no real spark behind those eyes here. But as good as Monroe was at that, and she was very good, the performance is a bit flat. Her screen magnetism and sex appeal are fully captured as she somehow exemplifies both ingénue and temptress. The pace remains slow for the first third or so exposition and setup consist of protagonist Richard Sherman (an effectively lackluster Everyman played by Tom Ewell) talking to himself as he goes about his first evening away from the wife and kid.įortunately, Marilyn Monroe (as The Girl) eventually makes her appearance, and things brighten considerably.
#THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH MOVIE#
Opening the movie is an ineffective - and the movie itself even acknowledges this - and racially insensitive attempt to tie life in modern-day Manhattan to that of the pre-colonial Native Americans that not even the tongue-in-cheek voiceover can salvage. Watching the movie, which was adapted from a Broadway play, feels very much like watching a play with its static camera and sets that rarely venture out of the apartment. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH is a cute, comedic romp but justifiably occupies a lower position in the canons of both Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe.
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