The Seven Year Itch

…Axelrod, the author of the play on which the film was based. Tom Ewell, reprising the role he had played onstage, starred as a middle-aged Manhattan book-publishing executive whose wife and son are away for the summer, leaving him free to fantasize about his seductive new upstairs neighbour (Marilyn Monroe…

…and produced stage productions, notably The Seven Year Itch, which had a Broadway run from 1952 to 1955. He later wrote the novel Of Cheat and Charmer (1962). Nugent’s autobiography, Events Leading Up to the Comedy, was published in 1965.