Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955

The Seven Year Itch (Feldman Group Productions; 20th Century-Fox) has been hawked across the nation with one of the most teasing promotional campaigns in movie history, culminating last week in a four-story cardboard model of Marilyn Monroe simpering prettily at Times Square while her skirts are being blown up around her hips.

This leering come-on may pull the easily titillated into the theater, but they are doomed to disappointment—for the screen version of Itch has been thoroughly laundered to win approval from the Production Code and the Legion of Decency. In the hit...

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