Word: itch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seven Year Itch (Feldman Group Productions; 20th Century-Fox) has been hawked across the nation with one of the most teasing promotional campaigns in movie history, culminating last week in a four-story cardboard model of Marilyn Monroe simpering prettily at Times Square while her skirts are being blown up around her hips...
This leering come-on may pull the easily titillated into the theater, but they are doomed to disappointment-for the screen version of Itch has been thoroughly laundered to win approval from the Production Code and the Legion of Decency. In the hit Broadway play, it was fairly clear that Summer Bachelor Tom Ewell went to bed with his pretty neighbor; in the film, undulating Marilyn spends the night with him, but, while she slumbers, Ewell chastely passes the wee hours wrapping up a kayak paddle for mailing to his vacationing...
...Itch is beautifully mounted in De Luxe-color CinemaScope, and Marilyn Monroe's eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever. She also displays a nice comedy touch, reminiscent of a baby-talk Judy Holliday. After listening to a Rachmaninoff concerto, Marilyn gets real comic conviction into her voice when she decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor...
...four roaches are men, four derelicts on the rot in a Central American oil town. Mario (Yves Montand), a young Corsican with meaty good looks and the gross itch they often portend, ekes out his boredom by cadging bliss at a local refreshment booth (Vera Clouzot). Jo (Charles Vanel), a career thug who fears nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living...
...started drawing birds from life when I was six, because they fascinated me so much," he explains. "Whenever I catch a glimpse of a bird whizzing past, it makes such an impression on my mind that I itch to get it down on paper." Puleston is self taught, though he had a family background that fitted him well for bird painting: his mother was an artist, and a favorite uncle took him on bird walks when he was still a toddler...