The Seven Year Itch

Introduction This essay will look into the movies “The Seven Year Itch” and “Kill Bill” to elaborate on the impact that different American films can have on gender among other issues. The Seven Year Itch is an entertaining film where the protagonist is Marilyn Monroe known as “the girl” in the movie. She is a blonde bombshell, stunning and attractive. The film tells a story about a married man who faces a lot of temptation from the neighbor, “the girl” (Hayssen, 2016). The girl in this movie has no idea of the effect she has on Sherman (married neighbor). The Seven-year itch is a good movie that addresses the change in the role of girls in the society. The movie shows the role of civilized men in developing a generation of men that undermine the role of women in the society. It shows the growing issue during the period, which had a huge impact on the production of American films. On the contrary, “Kill Bill” analysis shows that the directors and producers of the movie portray women in the society as strong and wise. In this case, they go to the extent of showing that women have a huge role in…

caught critic’s eyes everywhere. Double Indemnity, made in 1944, The Seven Year Itch, made in 1955, and Some like it hot, made in 1959. Billy Wilder’s style in his films could be described as comic in most of his films but some of them like Double Indemnity could be described as dark as it is a film noir. Over the decades Billy Wilder’s films do improves in style. In his earlier film Double Indemnity Wilder uses Black and white film instead of color film. Since Double Indemnity is a film noir,…

Marilyn Monroe Biography Early life: Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, as the third child of Gladys Pearl Monroe, a negative cutter at Columbia Pictures. However, Gladys was mentally and financially unprepared for a child, so she place Monroe with Albert and Ida Bolender in Hawthorne, California for several years. In the year of 1938, Monroe attended Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles, where she wrote for the school's newspaper. In late 1944, Monroe met…

She dyed her hair blonde and officially began calling herself “Marilyn Monroe.” Taking a small part in the movie, The Asphalt Jungle, she gathered a lot of attention. This propelled her towards bigger parts in movies like ‘All About Eve’, ‘Gentleman Prefer Blondes’, and ‘The Seven-Year Itch.’ During her famed career, she displayed risqué actions such as her poses in images from magazines and shoots, and her infamous raunchy dress scene in the film ‘The Seven-Year…

Have you ever dreamed of becoming one of the world’s biggest icon for decades? Even after you were no longer around? Before I jump to far ahead there are a couple things most people do not know about the all-time famous “Marilyn Monroe”. For starters her real name was Norma Jeane Mortensen born in California who grew up with a very rough and unstable childhood. Marilyn Monroe died at a very young age, 36 years old. Marilyn Monroe had to use perseverance, passion, and creavity just to survive her…

turned 16, to avoid being sent to another foster home, she got married to James Dougherty, her 21 year old boyfriend at that time on June 19, 1942. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last long and they divorced in 1946. In 1945 Norma Jeane tried modeling and her photographs…

nude and exposed, this was the first image that had drawn in the attention from producers and movie directors. She was also issued in the first issue of Playboy Magazine. Monroe had taken a picture for the premiere headlines of her newest movie at the time, “The Seven Year Itch.” She had on a white halter dress as she was standing above the subway grate with her dress being blown up. This image of her is still known today and when people see this picture, they know that the women in the photo is…

long while ago a young housewife became an international icon in a matter of days. That lady’s name was Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn could do whatever her heart desired. She went from a housewife of a soldier, to a model in a few weeks. Why was Marilyn so famous? How did her picture on the air vent become so popular, and lastly, why is she still popular today? Marilyn Monroe was an icon of her era. How did Marilyn become popular? There are many reasons why, and many other opinions, but this is the…

On August 5, 1962 movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was was found lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. The cause of Marilyn Monroe death is an overdose on a drug called barbiturate poisoning, and a psychiatric team did the investigation termed its probable suicide. The investigators say that she drunk then of depression, She have been none for doing pills and drinking alot. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in…

difficulties of her childhood to become the iconic face of glamour itself. Marilyn spent most of her childhood in foster care and an orphanage. Marilyn never knew her father and her mother, Gladys, suffered with emotional and mental issues and she stayed in and out of the hospital. All though, Gladys wasn’t the prime care taker, she often visited Marilyn. Around 1933, their luck changed. Gladys had saved enough money for a down payment on a house; this was the first time Marilyn actually lived…