Marilyn Monroe’s Billowing Dress
One of the most iconic moments in movie history, the ramifications of which would prove to be as much personal as they were cultural
The dress in question appears in a sequence from the 1955 Billy Wilder film The Seven Year Itch in which Marilyn Monroe (playing “the Girl”) and co-star Tom Ewell (“Richard Sherman”) exit the Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theatre on Lexington Avenue in New York City having just watched Creature from t…