The Seven Year Itch
play by Axelrod
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film adaptation
- In Billy Wilder: Films of the 1950s of Billy Wilder
…Axelrod, the author of the play on which the film was based. Tom Ewell, reprising the role he had played onstage, starred as a middle-aged Manhattan book-publishing executive whose wife and son are away for the summer, leaving him free to fantasize about his seductive new upstairs neighbour (Marilyn Monroe…
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Nugent
- In Elliott Nugent
…and produced stage productions, notably The Seven Year Itch, which had a Broadway run from 1952 to 1955. He later wrote the novel Of Cheat and Charmer (1962). Nugent’s autobiography, Events Leading Up to the Comedy, was published in 1965.
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