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Which famous Marilyn Monroe scene came from The Seven Year Itch?
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for Sunset Boulevard (1950), which he directed.
The iconic scene from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder, features Marilyn Monroe standing above a subway vent as the air blast causes her dress to billow upward. This moment remains one of the most famous images in cinema history.1