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...found she was pretty handy at woodworking. From early morning until cocktail time, in fact, the twelve scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points; one woman's stomach disorder disappeared...
...Seven Year Itch. Though they promise more fun than they deliver. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy a fairly engaging romp (TIME, June...
Amos Niven Wilder . . . . . L.H.D...
...everything came out in the wash. There still remains in the film a heavy deposit of double-entendre. George Axelrod's play, and the movie he wrote in collaboration with Director Billy Wilder, concerns a middle-aged Manhattan husband who spends the summer in the city while his wife and son are enjoying the Maine breezes. Into his enforced celibacy comes the girl upstairs, an uninhibited hoyden from Denver who powerfully blends naiveté with sex-she dunks potato chips in champagne, begs for "more sugar" in her martini, artlessly boasts of posing in the nude, feels that...
...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 roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder...