When asked why the heroine didn’t have a name, Axelrod said, “The truth of the matter is that I could never think of a name for her that seemed exactly right, that really fit the girl I had in mind.” In the stage version of The Seven Year Itch The Girl, as played by Vanessa Brown, was attractive, but average. And no matter how hot her apartment is, that doesn’t seem right. Rewatching in 2022, I like the fact that she does not sleep with him–because she would just be trading sex for air conditioning. He did manage to outmaneuver the censors on numerous other issues. The whole aspect of the picture would have changed.” (Sikov OSB). I would just like to have one tiny little scene where the maid of the Tom Ewell apartment is making the bed and finds a hairpin. Wilder begged the producers, “Look, unless they do it, we have no picture.
In the film, they explicitly do not so use your imagination. In the play, Richard Sherman and The Girl do sleep together. Most importantly, the adultery theme had to be sanitized for the screen. Dialogue was padded with outrageous puns, gags and parodies. The text is but the skeleton of Wilder’s film. ‘Fine,’ said Billy, who took the script and dropped it on the floor, ‘We’ll use it as a doorstop.'” (Sikov OSB). “‘I thought we might use it as a guide,'” he said mildly. Axelrod brought a copy of the play to their first meeting. The pair couldn’t have hit it off too well. Axelrod wouldn’t let the play be filmed until the Broadway run was over, so they could take their time. He liked collaborating on scripts and teamed up with the playwright to forge an acceptable version.
#SEVEN YEAR ITCH CODE#
Although Hollywood was interested, the censorious Production Code dictated The Seven Year Itch unfilmable. George Axelrod’s play was a huge Broadway hit, the married hero’s yearning for an affair with “The Girl” slyly undermining Post-War insistence on hearth and home. Director Wilder bent the censorship code until it nearly snapped, his script surging with canoe paddles, milk bottles, undies in the icebox and the siren call of Rachmaninoff. She is luminous in this lusty 1950s-time capsule about a doughy, middle-aged husband, liberated for the summer from his wife and son, who daydreams about the va-va-voom neighbor upstairs. There is no more potent image in American cinema than Marilyn, her white halter dress billowing in the breeze of a Manhattan subway grate. Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes (105 min).
The Seven Year Itch (1955) Directed by Billy Wilder.
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