Entertaining Billy Wilder outing, adapted--and toned down--by George Axelrod from his hit Broadway play. This is probably Monroe's best known film, largely thanks to the scene in which a rush of air from a subway grating sends her skirt flying up around her shoulders.
Tom Ewell plays a book publisher who has been married for seven years, and who stays behind in Manhattan for the summer when his wife (Keyes) and son (Bernard) leave on vacation. Ewell's small building has an upstairs apartment which has been sublet to Monroe, a flighty commercial actress/model
who becomes the object of his (mostly imaginary) amorous advances. Ewell's lively imagination sends him i...
Released:
1955
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins