THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -- Billy Wilder, dir

©1955
studio: 20th Century Fox
production company: Charles K. Feldman Group, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
director: Billy Wilder
cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Moore, Dolores Rosedale, Donald MacBride, Carolyn Jones
screenplay: Billy Wilder (play by George Axelrod)

A married man's fidelity (and imagination) are put to the test as his wife and son are away on vacation and a beautiful, voluptuous woman moves in to the apartment upstairs.

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This is the movie with the famous skirt-blowing scene, but Marilyn makes the movie memorable for other reasons. Her performance is spot-on, which is a tribute to Monroe and director Wilder. She really is the perfect blend of innocence, sensuality, and flirtation.

Tom Ewell is wonderful as the imaginative editor whose fantasy/fancy gets away from him. Though the script is somewhat oddly written, with Ewell making long declarations to an empty room, we accept the convention quickly enough and move on.

Filming is interesting enough to keep even a modern day, used-to-fast-paced-movies goer engaged.

A thumbs up for this classic.