Tom Ewell

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Marilyn Monroe as The Girl stands on a staircase holding a fan, smiling down at Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman in a scene from the film The Seven Year Itch.

Marilyn Monroe stands over a subway grate as her white dress billows up, smiling, while Tim Ewell watches in the iconic scene from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch.

Tom Ewell

American actor

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The Seven Year Itch
Reprising his Broadway role, Tom Ewell played Richard Sherman, a middle-aged book editor whose wife and son are leaving their Manhattan home for the summer. On the evening after their departure, Richard encounters an attractive young woman (Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs. Over the next two…
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Reprising his Broadway role, Tom Ewell played Richard Sherman, a middle-aged book editor whose wife and son are leaving their Manhattan home for the summer. On the evening after their departure, Richard encounters an attractive young woman (Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs. Over the next two…
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Frank Tashlin
Films of the mid-1940s to mid-1950s
…Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956), with Tom Ewell and Sheree North, Tashlin directed (but did not write) Martin and Lewis’s final film as a team, Hollywood or Bust (1956).
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…Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956), with Tom Ewell and Sheree North, Tashlin directed (but did not write) Martin and Lewis’s final film as a team, Hollywood or Bust (1956).
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