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Marilyn Monroe statue carries a spectacle across the decades
Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan in 1954.
July 15, 2011|Michael Phillips | Movie critic
articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-15/entertainment/chi-talking-pictures-marilyn-monroe-sculpture-20110715_1_joe-dimaggio-marilyn-monroe-grate
26-foot sculpture by Seward Johnson known as "Forever Marilyn," unveiled Friday morning in Pioneer Court just north of the Michigan Avenue bridge.
"In three dimensions and delivering a lot more thigh and panties than its source material, Johnson's statue recreates the most famous moment from director Billy Wilder's "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), an adaptation of the George Axelrod stage comedy. Marilyn Monroe and co-star Tom Ewell exit a Manhattan movie theater showing "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" on a hot summer night. Standing on a subway grate at 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue, Monroe delights in the rush and the whoosh of the train below, the train causing the updraft that sends her white skirt billowing into both cinema and lechery history."
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Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan in 1954.
July 15, 2011|Michael Phillips | Movie critic
articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-15/entertainment/chi-talking-pictures-marilyn-monroe-sculpture-20110715_1_joe-dimaggio-marilyn-monroe-grate
26-foot sculpture by Seward Johnson known as "Forever Marilyn," unveiled Friday morning in Pioneer Court just north of the Michigan Avenue bridge.
"In three dimensions and delivering a lot more thigh and panties than its source material, Johnson's statue recreates the most famous moment from director Billy Wilder's "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), an adaptation of the George Axelrod stage comedy. Marilyn Monroe and co-star Tom Ewell exit a Manhattan movie theater showing "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" on a hot summer night. Standing on a subway grate at 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue, Monroe delights in the rush and the whoosh of the train below, the train causing the updraft that sends her white skirt billowing into both cinema and lechery history."
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor ( www.youtube.com/editor)