Seven Year Itch
Richard Sherman is a married man (married for seven years) who works in publishing in New York City and who has just put his wife and son on a train to Maine for the summer.
He's all set to spend a nice quiet summer in the sweltering New York heat, not drinking and not smoking in his quiet building while the other summer bachelors step out, play cards, drink and smoke cigars, and stay out until quarter to nine in the morning. That is, he's all set to do these things until he comes home after a nice vegetarian meal to find out one of the other two flats in his building has been rented to a beautiful young woman. Richard Sherman then turns into Walter Mitty and pictures himself seducing this young woman and other possible scenarios.
The girl, played by Marilyn Monroe, is funny and a little ditzy and a good sport. Sherman and the girl become friends and spend some time together and Sherman wrestles with wanting to become closer to the girl without cheating on his wife, some pretty funny imagined scenarios take place. All in all, this iconic film (think Marilyn in a white dress standing over a subway grate while the trains pass underneath) was warm and funny with a happy ending.
Marilyn as always is gorgeous and well-dressed. I particularly enjoyed the champagne drinking dress. I also enjoyed the reference to the gay couple upstairs. But, here's the one thing I don't get about the comedies in which Marilyn Monroe stars: I can get that she's the pretty girl who doesn't understand how beautiful she is, but I just don't understand why Ms. Monroe always has to play the dumb blonde.
