The Seven Year Itch

almost any role with many iconic scenes. One iconic scene has her standing in the subway holding her skirt down. It is recognizable throughout the country. This point is further explained by this quote, “When she stood over a subway grate in The Seven Year Itch (1955), her white pleated dress billowing above her waist, and squealed, "Isn't it delicious?," she created a legendary image” (DISCovering Biography). This aided Monroe’s popularity not only as a pretty face but an actress as well. As a thespian

In the film “The Seven Year Itch”, Richard Sherman, the main character, reflects many examples of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The film is based around a married man, who sends his wife and son to Maine for the summer, but suddenly becomes attracted to a much younger, stunning woman who moves into the apartment above him. Throughout the entirety of the film, Sherman displays a plethora of components of personality and defense mechanisms that align with the psychoanalytic theory that includes rationalization

On February 25th I attended Valencia's theater production of The Seven Year Itch. It took place at Valencia's East campus in the Black Box theater. It started at 7:30pm and lasted about two hours with a fifth-teen minute intermission. I selected this event because it was a requirement for my intro to theater class, and also I enjoy theater. I brought with me notes and paper so I could write down my thoughts on it. It ended up being too dark and I used my phone instead. I tried to keep what it was

several plays, The Seven Year Itch, Trifles, and Pomp and Circumstance. Many aspects of them have stuck out to me, such as the setting and the personalities of the characters in them. Another thing that intrigued me is that these three plays all take place in different time periods. The era that a play takes place can impact its direction due to differences in social classes and boundaries and even how the opposite sex is treated. The first play I will be discussing, The Seven Year Itch was created by

memories was of her mother trying to smother her in her crib with a pillow. Monroe had a half-sister, to whom she was not close; they met only a half-dozen times. At 7 years old, Monroe returned to a life in foster homes, where she was on several occasions sexually assaulted; she later said that she had been raped when she was 11 years old. But she had one way out—get married. She wed her boyfriend

Jungle”; her part was small but also important. This movie was Marilyn’s first acting job and the start to her career. Over an eight year period of acting, Marilyn participated in 24 different films. Her whole career was 16 years and she made 29 films. Marilyn really liked her job and was very kind and appreciative of her fans. Just take the scene from “ Seven Year Itch” with the “skirt blowing” scene. Several hundred photographers and 2,000 fans went to Trans-Lux Theater, New York City to watch

within society that could be perpetrated either as a social institution (sameness) or what gender is composed of at an individual level (difference). This paper will use examples from Marilyn Monroe’s The Seven Year Itch to demonstrate these components of gender. At it’s time, The Seven Year Itch was highly received in popular culture. This popularity was in large part because of the female lead, Marilyn Monroe. For quite sometime,

astonishing film actress and sex symbol. She was originally born Norma Jeane Baker (anb.org. 1). She has brought herself up from failure of Broadway to unpopular movies, to the world's greatest icon. Marilyn is considered an immortal (Rudnick 2). It took years for Monroe to reach her fame and she yearned to be taken seriously (Derakhshani 3), but Monroe was a nightmare to work with. She was spoiled, unsure (Rudnick 2) and considered a dumb blonde (anb.org. 1) as she broke down many times between scenes of

Her first in a long list of achievements was when she became a very successful pinup girl. After a few years this would eventually lead to Twentieth Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures asking her to star in movies for them. From there she starred in a few minor films. These were the movies that made her a popular actress among different studios and the general

father, Norma lived a loveless, disrupted childhood, including two years in an orphanage. She had a half-sister who she was not close at all. By the times when the young Norma reached seven, her mother was hospitalized due to her severe mental conditions. She ended up in some foster homes and orphanages. There Norma endured sexual assaults. Later in an interview, Monroe said that she had an experience of rape when she was only 11 years old. After her sixteenth birthday, Monroe decided to get married