We can say that The Itch knocked all (or nearly all) the conservatism of the 50, for his views on marital infidelity was a scandal to the time, but in addition, we have a satirical romantic comedy (the hottest since the beginning of the film) with the greatest sexual icon of the United States and possibly the cinema's more, the sexuality of Marilyn inflamed to censors and caused great controversy stigmatized his private life, it showed a Marilyn in her most suggestive until then.
Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a middle-aged editor is alone in Manhattan on hot summer days after sending his wife and son to spend a few days of vacation in Maine ... but everything changes when the apartment above moves a young and beautiful girl (Marilyn Monroe) resulting Sherman's imagination overflows.
Based on the Broadway comedy by George Axelrod on the romance that keeps a man married to his attractive neighbor, Hollywood could not miss this theatrical success and not take it to the big screen. But in the 50 film just did not enjoy the theater's artistic freedom, since all films were passed by the Hays Code famous guillotine.
The censors said the entire film would violate all production codes, as adultery, according read the famous code "would not cause comedy or laughter."
Billy Wilder
But this film was an irresistible challenge to which he could not avoid facing. It was not the first time the director teased the censors, since Lost Weekend Bane or topics as controversial as alcoholism, adultery or murder.
20th Century Fox had an ace up its sleeve in the form of a sex goddess Marilyn Monroe 28 years call, which was only two years posing nude for Playboy magazine. So when Fox obtained the rights to the work the attention is focused on his co-star. Richard Sherman's role was that of a normal type, so the output rejected suitors from the likes of Gary Cooper, wanted an ordinary guy (not especially handsome) but with a comic touch. Wilder thought of the actor who played in the theater, Tom Ewell, Marilyn I knew that before he embodied the essence of the character.
But back to the Hays Code, the censors had removed any explicit reference to the infidelity and adultery, and so the work was meaningless, since in the play the protagonist had an affair with her neighbor for the absence of his wife, then felt guilty and that gave rise to a series of comic events, but there was infidelity story ... but the censors underestimated the ingenuity and intelligence of Billy Wilder and Marilyn powerful impact on the screen.
In 1954, when they started filming, Monroe was the greatest sex symbol of America and her marriage to the player Joe DiMaggio's baseball became fodder for the tabloids, and so we have to add that Fox informed the press of all the movements of the actress, so both the Hays Commission and the Catholic Legion of Decency closely monitoring both the shooting as they considered the greatest threat against the morality of the country, Marilyn Monroe.
Although in reality the character of Marilyn was "the girl", after successive snips censorship, Monroe was the main attraction of the film, and star. Filming in New York, Marilyn sowed chaos wherever he went and the famous scene of the foot she would go down in history film with gold lettering. I can not forget the actor Tom Ewell, Marilyn sign here because although one of his most memorable and remembered, he is really great, wonderful, great ... a perfect comedian. Immense.
One of the anecdotes of the film found it while filming the famous scene from the slopes, which at first was shot on location (although in the end and because of crowd noise would be finished filming in studies Fox). Anyone who saw the heroine whistling and devolved and did not walk with a ball with the text, and on the other hand, Joe DiMaggio was getting more nervous as it was not willing for everyone to see so his wife (even though she got to shoot two panties). Marilyn laughed and had fun with such a stir, her husband, increasingly became more angry and humiliated ... and is even said that the time was the turning point of their marriage, leaving it clear that she was the star and he was "lord." In two weeks, his marriage ended.
Forty shots were needed to implement one of the most famous and unforgettable frame of film history.
In reality, the skirt is lifted up his head, the film is not beyond knees.
"You see, that's all they see in me." Eli Wallach Marilyn Monroe when she saw the silhouette ad 16 meters to Times Square and only showed "the scene."
A Wilder was concerned and frustrated with the situation of Marilyn, as the star did not stop their destructive behavior, especially when at that time were in a deep depression which nearly prevented memorize dialogue, despite the radiant is in the film, that was precisely what offset many delays and duplication.
"No matter what the diáologos suffered trying to rip you like a dentist ... when he said seemed really spontaneous. You loved, and that is what has endured" Billy Wilder.
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