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Dated and toned down from its Broadway origins thanks to the infamous Hollywood Production Code, The Seven Year Itch is a fine little comedy, made immortal by one of the most famous scenes in all of film: Marilyn Monroe standing over a New York subway grate as the breeze blows her skirt in the air.

Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell in "The Seven Year Itch" . Marilyn Monroe was definitely the star at tonight's auction of Hollywood memorabilia, with the iconic dress she wore in the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch" sold for a blockbuster $4.6 million.

TNR Film Classics: Delmore Schwartz on 'The Seven Year Itch' The film version of The Seven Year Itch , George Axelrod's Broadway hit, has carried over enough of the play's sophisticated brightness to indicate the reasons for the play's success: the perfect fulfillment of the well-known Broadway genre of gag, gag, punch-line, epigram, and paradox, ...

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is the Marilyn Monroe of classical music - a legendary, voluptuous, utterly sexy work.