The Seven Year Itch
- Original title
- The Seven Year Itch
- Year
- 1955
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Tom Ewell
- Marilyn Monroe
- Oskar Homolka
- Carolyn Jones
- Evelyn Keyes
- Sonny Tufts
- Robert Strauss
- Marguerite Chapman
- Victor Moore
- Donald MacBride
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Synopsis
- In summertime in Manhattan, the plain and average Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) sends his wife and son for vacation in the country. Sherman is the key man of a publishing firm, Brady & Company, which publishes cheap pocket books. The faithful Sherman has a routine life with his family and dreams on being successful with women. When a beautiful and sexy blonde (Marilyn Monroe) lodges the upstairs apartment of his small building, Sherman first opens the front door for her and then he invites her to have a drink with him after the fall of her tomato vase on his chair...
- Awards
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1955: Golden Globes: Best Actor - Musical/Comedy (Tom Ewell)1955: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Actress (Marilyn Monroe)1955: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director1955: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Comedy Screenplay
- Critics' reviews
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"So arresting is Monroe's presence that when she's not on-screen, we wait impatiently"
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