Marilyn Monroe Before and After NewYork views of the skirt film scene from the movie The Seven Year Itch 1954
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The scene itself was shot a total of 14 times on-location in New York City on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street. Dozens of male photographers and thousands of spectators were present for the history-making moment.
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The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist, and the couple divorced shortly afterward.
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Joseph Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "The Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees.
The famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on September 15, 1954
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DiMaggio blamed Monroe's drug and alcohol addiction, and her death from an apparent overdose, on the Kennedy brothers and crooner Frank Sinatra, his confidant Morris Engelberg told Vanity Fair in 2000.
Monroe worked as a paint sprayer in a defense plant. A photographer spotted her there, and she soon became a popular pin-up girl.
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1954 the director Billy Wilder was filming a scene of the film The Seven Year Itch on Lexington Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Street in New York City.
Monroe played a series of small film roles until 1950, when Fox signed her again.
1946, 20th Century Fox signed her for $125 a week but dropped her after one film, from which her scenes were cut.
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In the script, Monroe and co-star Tom Ewell exit a movie theater and a breeze from the subway passing below lifts Monroe’s skirt, and, Monroe exclaims, “Isn't it delicious?”
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Columbia signed her but also dropped her after one film. Unemployed, she posed nude for a calendar for $50, the calendar sold a million copies and made $750,000.
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William Travilla created the costume for the star (he also designed Marilyn's outfits in several other films, including the pink dress from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).
With so many witnesses the majority of the "takes" were ultimately never used in the movie, since the noise from the crowds rendered each one unusable, however the many photographs that were taken of that day are still seared in many memories globally today for the sheer spectacle this moment created in 1954
