Shocking story you never knew behind Marilyn Monroe skirt scene

"Seven-year-old itchy" made an icon Marilyn Monroe and she destroyed her personal life.


Marilyn Monroe was already a success whenSeven-year-old itching Went out in 1955, but this film turned it into icon. Monroe had played in 1953Gentlemen prefer blondes,How to marry a millionaireAnd nearly two dozens of other movies at that time, turning from Brunette Norma Jean to Blonde Bombshell Marilyn Monroe in the process. But the renowned road was littered with personal trauma and crises for Monroe. Yes, the scene of the white halter dress inSeven-year-old itching Made Monroe a legend, but it also cost him a major loss in his personal life. Read it to see what happened behind the scenes of one of the most memorable moments in cinematographic history.

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Seven-year-old itching Scene has transformed Marilyn Monroe from a star to a legend.

Scene outside a food store at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue early today as Marilyn Monroe stood over a subway grating and had her skirts blown up by a giant blower while talking to Tom Ewell in a scene from the movie they're making of the famed stage play
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Seven-year-old itching was one of the greatest success of Monroe's career and is largely because of ainfamous scene, set up in the middle of New York City, where Monroe, in a Pochowie White Lielle dress, is on a metro and catches the breeze of a train passing.

The film is centered on an average age executive (Tom Ewell) Who is entangled by the character of Monroe, who lives in his building, while his wife is away from their children for the summer. On the stage, the characters of Ewell and Monroe leave the movies and it pauses on the metro grid to feel the breeze the hot night, which explode his skirt. "Is not it delicious?" she says. AsThe New York Timesreports, he became known as "theDrawn around the world. "

The scene was slaughtered late one night in mid-September 1954 and directorBilly Wilder Members invited from the press and the public to watch to build buzz on the movie. According toThe New York Times, "Hundreds of Gawkers, almost all men ... hot things and shouted as" higher! Upper! 'As Ms. Monroe's dress exploded on his head. For two hours, men observed surrounding buildings and street. "

But one of those men of the crowd did not like what he saw: his husband at the time,Joe Dimaggio.

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Dimaggio and Monroe had only been married for eight months when she filmedSeven-year-old itching.

The American actress Marilyn Monroe and her husband Joe DiMaggio leaving the town hall after their wedding. San Francisco, 14th January 1954
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Marilyn Monroe was married to his second husband, Star Yankees of New YorkDimaggio when she didSeven-year-old itching. Their romance would have started in 1952 when he arranged a dinner with her, and both started a highly publicized romance.

"The truth is that we were very similar," said Monroe in his briefMy story, written byBen Hecht. "My advertisement, like Joe's grandeur, is something outdoors. It has nothing to do with what we really are."

The pair married in 1954 at the town hall of San Francisco. "We knew it would not be an easy marriage," said Monroe Hecht. "On the other hand, we could not continue to go forever as a pair of country background lovers. It could start doing both our career."

In the end, it was another factor, not a distance, which provoked the end of the wedding: the jealousy of Dimaggio.

Dimaggio came to see the scene shot and he "did not like what he saw," said the director.

Marilyn Monroe
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Dimaggio had a reputation for having become green with envy, according to his biographerRichard Ben Cramer. His book,Joe Dimaggio: the life of a hero, tells the ventilation of the Monroe-dimagior relationship.

Paradoxically, it is the sexual call of Monroe - the very thing that made it a star - which led to the end of his marriage with Dimaggio. According to Cramer, he was notoriously jealous of Monroe's co-stars, the directors she worked with and even the hairdressers and makeup artists who were ready to prepare.

The last straw was this fateful night on the whole ofItching seven years.According toThe New York Times, Dimaggio was nearby, the awaiting at the St. Regis Hotel where they stayed. He did not plan to visit all that night, but columnistWalter Winchell would have pretended to persuade him to see the excitement. "He did not like what he saw, or what everyone saw:" Director Wilder declared Dimaggio in his biographyNobody is perfect.

The New York TimesSaid that the couple had "a struggle screaming" that night and the next morning, the bruises of Monroe had to be covered with makeup. She tabled for divorce three weeks later.

Monroesaid later The Itching seven years Scene and the resulting emblematic advertising shooting "Exhibiting my legs and my thighs, even my crotch - it was the last straw" in his wedding in Dimaggio.

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Dimaggio helped Monroe in the last stages of his life.

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
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Even after their split, however,Dimaggio held a candle for Monroe. "I love you and I want to be with you. ... There is nothing I would like to restore your confidence in me. ... My heart smelled even bigger who saw you crying with all these people "He wrote about seeing her announced divorce, according toCloser.

Monroe would continue to marry a third time, playwrightArthur Miller, a year later in 1956. This marriage lasted five years, but was assaulted by the growing decline of Monroe on drug abuse and mental health problems. After the marriage Meunier dissolved in 1960, the psychiatrist of MonroeDr. Marianne Kris THE VALAIT at the Psychiatric Institute of Payne Whitney at the beginning of 1961.

In aletter to his other psychiatrist,Dr. R.Alphant GreensonShe wrote horrors she lived inside. "There was no empathy at Payne-Whitney - it had a very bad effect - they asked me after putting me in a" cell "(I mean cement blocks and all) for Deep patients very disturbed (except I felt that I was in some sort of prison for a crime I had not committed). Inhumanity there I found Archaic, she wrote.

Despite the desire to leave, Monroe was trapped inside the establishment for 23 days. Finally, she called her ex dimaggio for help. Monroe biographerCharles Casillo RecountCloser weekly thisDimagio asked Monroe to be released. "He went to the front desk and said," I want my wife. And if I do not get it, I'll take this brick brick hospital, "Casillo said." She was released the next day. "

Monroe and Dimaggio remained friends until the death of Monroe.

Joe DiMaggio (accompanied by son Joe DiMaggio Jr., in marine uniform) at Marilyn Monroe's funeral.
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Despite their marriage, Monroe and Dimaggio remained friends until she died in suicide in 1962. It was Dimaggio, not Miller, who was arranged for his funeral.

"I'm going to go to my grass regretting and blaming me for what happened to him," Dimaggio said that, according to the biographyDinner with Dimaggio.

His long-standing lawyerMorris EngelbergRecountVanity fairThe Great baseball thought of Monroe on his deathbed in 1999. "I will finally arrive at see Marilyn" would have last words from Dimaggio.

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