If you like the movie, you'd like the play. Marilyn Monroe The GirlTom Ewell Richard ShermanEvelyn Keyes Helen ShermanSonny Tufts Tom MacKenzieOskar Homolka Dr. Some of my favorite characters in the movie, such as the janitor and Sherman's boss, are only referred to here, but the brusque psychiatrist has a bigger part. Also, the relationship with the girl upstairs is more complicated. Not to compare it to the movie, which I really love, but the whole play takes part in the Sherman's apartment, with Sherman's fantasy scenes played out with "dream lighting" and actors offstage providing the inner dialogue. Sherman can't stop thinking about his waning youth or his marriage, which has become so comfortable.įunny, charming and not as innocent as the movie. What no one was expecting is that a new girl has taken the upstairs apartment for the summer and Mr. Wilder wanted the untested Walter Matthau to have Ewell’s part, but 20th Century Fox nixed that idea for the veteran actor. Thirty-eight years old and married for seven years, Richard Sherman's wife and boy leave him alone with his vivid imagination for the summer. His stagy performance was never exciting, and no else in the supporting cast had much to do but be props to this one-idea joke carried throughout the film. This is the script of the play as it ran in 1952 with the original cast, including Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman. What's wrong with that? If Helen was here, she'd do the same thing." "The girl upstairs almost kills me with a cast iron bucket. I also re-watched the movie and didn't find it particularly funny either (I was very young when I saw it the first time, so I don't remember if I liked it back then), but at least it has beautiful colors and vintage fashion going for it. I kind of get what Axelrod is trying to do by making Richard seem like a fool, but if he's trying to make an argument about marriages, I can't tell what it is. I do like the fact that Richard underestimates The Girl, thinking all the things that men presume about women's behavior, yet in the end he not only feels old because of what she's saying to him, but gets a reality check in other ways as well. Publication date 1996 Publisher Toronto New York : Harlequin Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English. I never truly cared about anything that happened. : The Seven Year Itch : Evelyn Keyes, Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Billy Wilder, George Axelrod, Billy Wilder. Richard is just boring and there's no payoff, or at least any that I can see or appreciate. The Seven Year Itch doesn't do anything for me in that regard. Even if the characters are trash or the sexual politics are old-fashioned etc., I'm willing to get on board if the writing/plot are good or there's a point to all the messiness. He also thinks his wife is right to be worried about losing her looks (although he doesn't know if she's worried or not), because he himself doesn't look any different than what he looked like when he was twenty-eight, so when she gets older, everybody will think she's his mother. His vanity is showing almost immediately: when his wife and kid are leaving for a holiday, he thinks it's flattering that his kid is upset. I don't mind idiots in my books and movies.
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