Tag: THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

July 20, 2015 /

Billy Dear, please dress me forever, I love you, Marilyn: William Travilla – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Billy Dear, please dress me forever. I love you, Marilyn.” Note from Marilyn Monroe to costume designer, William Travilla: On “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”: .

June 1, 2014 /

Avedon captures Monroe’s soul – she would have been 89 today, and probably never suspected she would become immortal…

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”  Marilyn Monroe

May 28, 2014 /

Tom Ewell remembers The Seven Year Itch

A comedic everyman who played foil to the bombshells of an era recounts what happened that night in New York when they shot the famous subway scene. .

May 28, 2014 /

Avedon shoots Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe

  “It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.”  Marilyn Monroe
October 2, 2013 /

Second Ave. Subway Line Won’t Have Sidewalk Ventilation Grates – NYTimes.com

July 19, 2013 /

PHOTOGRAPHER AND MODEL – AVEDON AND MONROE

Recalling a portrait session with Marilyn Monroe that took place in his studio in May 1957, Avedon said, “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe.” via MoMA | Richard Avedon. Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York. May 6, 1957.

November 28, 2012 /

FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD – THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

[Tom Ewell’s] most successful and arguably most identifiable role came in 1952 when he began the Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch. With Vanessa Brown as “The Girl”, the show ran for almost three years, and Ewell played the part more than 900 times, as he said when he…

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