A number of the well-known scenes throughout the movie “The Seven Yr Itch” (as seen on TCM), is when Marilyn Monroe’s character pauses exterior a film present on a New York sidewalk. Standing merely over a subway grate, she exclaims, “Oh, do you feel the breeze from the subway? Isn’t it delicious?” When the subway passes underground (twice!), the skirt of Monroe’s billowy white robe floats up, exposing her legs from ankle to thigh.
Photographer Sam Shaw, a pal of Monroe, was the nonetheless photographer on the film “The Seven Yr Itch.” On Biography, Shaw’s granddaughter, Melissa Stevens, shared, “It was his thought to utilize a picture from the film present scene as the logo to promote the film.”
Every the movie and footage led to easily about everyone becoming accustomed to the white robe, and its popularity continued successfully previous the film’s interval. Sculptor Seward Johnson created a travelling 26-foot statue titled “Endlessly Marilyn,” with the star carrying the white robe; it was displayed in an out of doors plaza in Chicago in 2012, as reported by NBC 5 Chicago. And, primarily based on The Hollywood Reporter, in 2011, the exact robe worn by Monroe throughout the movie supplied at public sale for $4.6 million {{dollars}} — plus an extra $1 million charge value.
