History Film / TheSevenYearItch

* DoubleStandard: As one DVD case explains, for Richard, "keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves tough"... Yes, so tough that he barely attempts it, and spends most of the film proactively pursuing an affair with her - meanwhile she's the only one of the two who ever actively fends the other off.

** In another Imagine Spot, Richard's wife tells him Kruhulik is actually a private eye she hired to watch him and that his real name is Johnny Dollar. ''Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar'' was a popular radio detective show of the era.

* TheFifties: Choose just about any frame of this film, and you're looking at them undiluted. Even Richard and Marilyn's character had finished watching the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' before the subway vents scene. Interestingly, being made almost smack in the middle of the decade, ''The Seven Year Itch'' appears to strike an aesthetic and ideological balance between the more "traditional" early years of the decade and the "hipness" of its later years.

* TheFifties: Choose just about any frame of this film, and you're looking at them undiluted. Interestingly, being made almost smack in the middle of the decade, ''The Seven Year Itch'' appears to strike an aesthetic and ideological balance between the more "traditional" early years of the decade and the "hipness" of its later years.

* GoodBadGirl: The Girl is implied to be this, since she's genuinely sweet, compassionate, and understanding, but she didn't like living in a club since they had a strict 1:30am curfew. She also implies that she gets marriage proposals all the time from various beaus, but she doesn't to settle down yet. That's why she prefers the company of married men--no matter how crazy things get, they'll never ask her to ''[[ExactWords marry]]'' them.

''The Seven Year Itch'' is a 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that arguably marked the high point of Creator/MarilynMonroe's popularity--and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

* BareYourMidriff: The Girl lifting her blouse as she enjoys the Shermans' air conditioner (no navel, though).

* GoodBadGirl: The Girl is implied to be this, since she's genuinely sweet, compassionate, and understanding, but she didn't like living in a club since they had a strict 1:30am curfew. She also implies that she gets marriage proposals all the time from various beaus, but she doesn't to settle down yet. That's why she prefers the company of married men--[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow no matter how crazy things get]], they'll never ask her to ''[[ExactWords marry]]'' them.

* UnusualEuphemism: Mr. Kruhulik is stepping out with a lady with a [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "big fat poodle'']].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Believe it or not, champagne ''is'' recommended as an accompaniment to snack foods, since the carbonation cleanses the palate of salt and grease. The Girl almost certainly didn't know this, though, making her discovery more a case of GeniusDitz in action.

* {{Spiritual Successor}}s: Somewhat surprisingly, this film has yet to be remade for modern-day cinematic audiences.[[note]]An attempted remake in the 1980s came to nothing after Creator/AlPacino turned down the Richard Sherman role; meanwhile, it was remade as a TV movie in Germany no less than twice, and an unidentified project called ''Seven Year Switch'' is supposedly in development.[[/note]] However, its basic themes have inspired quite a few films in its wake, including 1984's ''The Woman In Red'' (which even paid tribute to the MarilynManeuver scene) and 1999's Best Picture Oscar winner ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' (which took the basic theme, made it even kinkier, and wrapped it up with a DownerEnding).
* ThisLoserIsYou: Richard, arguably.

* LipstickMark: The Girl deliberately leaves one on Richard's collar at the end, all for the purpose of making Helen jealous. Apparently, [[MoralDissonance we're supposed to feel happy that Richard is finally "standing up for himself" to his "mean, bitchy wife."]]

* ContemptibleCover:
** Richard's job is to publish books with such covers — even classic literature, such as ''Literature/LittleWomen'' (retitled as ''The Secrets of a GIRLS DORMITORY'').
** Interestingly, the famous poster image for the film [[LateArrivalSpoiler (and yes, you know which one I'm talking about)]] could itself be considered an example.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Isn't it delicious?"'']]

''The Seven Year Itch'' is a 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that arguably marked the high point of Creator/MarilynMonroe's popularity -- and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a middle-aged book publisher who lives with his wife and young son in a large apartment in [[BigApplesauce the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City]]. It gets [[HeatWave so hot one summer]] that the wife and kid decide to take a vacation up to Maine, with Richard staying behind to hold down the fort and win the bread.

The 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that arguably marked the high point of Creator/MarilynMonroe's popularity -- and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

Richard has been having disagreements with his wife lately, and feels repressed. Even so, he agrees (at first) not to smoke, drink alcohol, or eat meat for the duration of his time alone. But one evening, as he is returning home from dinner at a vegetarian restaurant, he slips on one of his son's roller skates, hits his head... and, then, it turns out a blonde and curvy girl (guess who) starts living in the apartment above Richard's. HilarityEnsues.

Richard has been having disagreements with his wife lately, and feels repressed. Even so, he agrees (at first) not to smoke, drink alcohol, or eat meat for the duration of his time alone. But one evening, as he is returning home from dinner at a vegetarian restaurant, he slips on one of his son's roller skates, hits his head... and, in the form of the blonde, curvy Girl (guess who), HilarityEnsues.

Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a middle-aged book publisher who lives with his wife and young son in a large apartment in [[BigApplesauce the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City]]. It gets [[HeatWave so hot one summer]] that the wife and kid decide to take a vacation up to Maine, with Richard staying behind to hold down the fort.

* MonsterSobStory: In-story example: Richard and the Girl watch ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' together, and she says she felt sorry for the Creature: "He was kinda scary-looking, but he wasn't really all bad. I think he just craved a little affection - you know, a sense of being loved and needed and wanted." And the genius of this seemingly throwaway speech is that [[SchrodingersGun we have no way of knowing whether the Girl is speaking metaphorically about Richard or herself]]! Who is "the Creature" here? Is it Richard, who feels self-conscious about growing old and no longer being appealing to women (like a "creature")? Or is it the Girl, whom one can imagine often feeling like a freak (that is, a "monster") due to being ogled as a sex object. Or perhaps we could TakeAThirdOption here, and maintain that both characters feel themselves part of this analogy and therefore - despite literally being strangers - are drawn to each other.