History Film / TheSevenYearItch

* WolfWhistle: The trailer has one play during the MarilynManeuver.
* WomanInWhite: Well, who do ''you'' think?

* HelloNurse:
** The Girl.
** Also the actual Nurse Finch in one of Richard's [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]]

* HelloNurse: The Girl.

* CostumePorn: It's a real shame this movie didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award for costumes. Among William Travilla's many creations for Marilyn, particular standouts include an absurdly famous billowing off-white dress (see MarilynManeuver below) and a spangled gown with zigzagging tiger stripes. ''Meow''.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Played to the hilt. There's even a [[HerrDoktor stereotypically Germanic professor]] on the subject - and, [[ClicheStorm yes]], he has Richard [[FreudianCouch lie on a couch as he questions him]].

* CelebrityParadox:
-->'''Tom [=MacKenzie=]:''' What blonde in the kitchen?
-->'''Richard:''' Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe!
** CastingGag: Then again, considering [[NoNameGiven The Girl is unnamed]] throughout the film (and the credits), it's possible [[AsHimself the character in question really]] ''[[AsHimself is]]'' Creator/MarilynMonroe.

* ContemptibleCover: Richard's job is to publish books with such covers — even classic literature, such as ''Literature/LittleWomen'' (retitled as ''The Secrets of a GIRLS DORMITORY'').

* TheFifties: Choose just about any frame of this film, and you're looking at them undiluted. Interestingly, being made almost smack in the middle of the decade, ''The Seven Year Itch'' appears to strike an aesthetic and ideological balance between the more "traditional" early years of the decade and the "hipness" of its later years.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A number of examples, including some where the radar apparently wasn't working at all! It's amazing how much they could get away with even when UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was still in force.

-->'''Tom [=MacKenzie=]''' Sure, she loves you!

* MonsterSobStory: In-story example: Richard and the Girl watch ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' together, and she says she felt sorry for the Creature: "He was kinda scary-looking, but he wasn't really all bad. I think he just craved a little affection - you know, a sense of being loved and needed and wanted."
** And the genius of this seemingly throwaway speech is that [[SchrodingersGun we have no way of knowing whether the Girl is speaking metaphorically about Richard or herself]]! Who is "the Creature" here? Is it Richard, who feels self-conscious about growing old and no longer being appealing to women (like a "creature")? Or is it the Girl, whom one can imagine often feeling like a freak (that is, a "monster") due to being ogled as a sex object. Or perhaps we could TakeAThirdOption here, and maintain that both characters feel themselves part of this analogy and therefore - despite literally being strangers - are drawn to each other.
* MoralGuardians: The Legion of Decency (a Roman Catholic pressure group) demanded the removal of a large cutout of The Girl pushing down her blowing skirt that was used to promote the premiere.

* ShoutOut: One of Richard's {{Imagine Spot}}s spoofs the famous beach scene from ''Film/FromHereToEternity''.

* {{Spiritual Successor}}s: Somewhat surprisingly, this film has yet to be remade for modern-day cinematic audiences. (An attempted remake in the 1980s came to nothing after Creator/AlPacino turned down the Richard Sherman role; meanwhile, it was remade as a TV movie in Germany no less than twice, and an unidentified project called ''Seven Year Switch'' is supposedly in development.) However, its basic themes have inspired quite a few films in its wake, including 1984's ''The Woman In Red'' (which even paid tribute to the MarilynManeuver scene) and 1999's Best Picture Oscar winner ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' (which took the basic theme, made it even kinkier, and wrapped it up with a DownerEnding).

* DoubleStandard: This troper's DVD case explains that, for Richard, "keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves tough"... Yes, so tough that he barely attempts it, and spends most of the film proactively pursuing an affair with her - meanwhile she's the only one of the two who ever actively fends the other off.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Played to the hilt. There's even a stereotypically Germanic professor on the subject - and, [[ClicheStorm yes]], he has Richard [[FreudianCouch lie on a couch as he questions him]].

The 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that arguably marked high point of Creator/MarilynMonroe's popularity -- and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

* AskAStupidQuestion: Richard's wife always asks him what happened at the office when he comes home. When he's alone, he considers answering this: "I shot Mr. Brady in the head, made violent love to Miss Morris and set fire to 300,000 copies of ''LittleWomen''. That's what happened. What can happen at the office?"

* ContemptibleCover: Richard's job is to publish books with such covers — even classic literature, such as ''LittleWomen'' (retitled as ''The Secrets of a GIRLS DORMITORY'').

The 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that arguably marked high point of MarilynMonroe's popularity -- and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

** CastingGag: Then again, considering [[NoNameGiven The Girl is unnamed]] throughout the film (and the credits), it's possible [[AsHimself the character in question really]] ''[[AsHimself is]]'' MarilynMonroe.

* OperaGloves: Richard imagines the Girl in glittery black Opera Gloves with a strapless tiger-stripe gown.

* {{Spiritual Successor}}s: Somewhat surprisingly, this film has yet to be remade for modern-day cinematic audiences. (An attempted remake in the 1980s came to nothing after AlPacino turned down the Richard Sherman role; meanwhile, it was remade as a TV movie in Germany no less than twice, and an unidentified project called ''Seven Year Switch'' is supposedly in development.) However, its basic themes have inspired quite a few films in its wake, including 1984's ''The Woman In Red'' (which even paid tribute to the MarilynManeuver scene) and 1999's Best Picture Oscar winner ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' (which took the basic theme, made it even kinkier, and wrapped it up with a DownerEnding).

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[[caption-width-right:300:"Isn't it delicious?"]]

The 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that marked the arguable high point of MarilynMonroe's popularity -- and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

Richard has been having disagreements with his wife lately, and feels repressed. Even so, he agrees (at first) not to smoke, drink alcohol, or eat meat for the duration of his time alone. But one evening, as he is returning home from dinner at a vegetarian restaurant, he slips on one of his son's roller skates, hits his head....and, in the form of the blonde, curvy Girl (guess who), HilarityEnsues.

* MarilynManeuver: With the subway grate on the corner of Lexington and 52nd Streets (it's not quite as revealing as it could have been, though; see AllThereInTheManual above). The TropeCodifier and iconic example.

* AmusingInjuries: Richard keeps getting a crick in his neck.

The 1955 Creator/BillyWilder-directed film that marked the arguable high point of MarilynMonroe's popularity - and a fair contender for the title of the most famous American film [[PopculturalOsmosis you've probably never seen]].

Actually based on a 1952 stage comedy in which Ewell also appeared - and which included an actual extramarital affair between Richard Sherman and The Girl, which was censored out in the film version.

[[caption-width-right:300:Isn't it delicious?]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A number of examples, including some where the radar apparently wasn't working at all!

* AllJustADream: WordOfGod stated that The Girl doesn't exist. (Note no one but the protagonist ever directly interacts with her.)

* AllInHisHead: WordOfGod stated that The Girl doesn't exist. (Note no one but the protagonist ever directly interacts with her.)

* BlondGuysAreEvil: At least, that's how Richard views Tom [=MacKenzie=].

* FollowTheLeader: At the time, very few movies opened with ArtisticTitle sequences. Saul Bass supplied the zany [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-seven-year-itch/ credits sequence]] here, and its success with audiences pretty much made his career. And in the 1960s and '70s, it seemed like ''every'' movie comedy opened with a cartoonish sequence of some sort.

* MarilynManeuver: With the subway grate on the corner of Lexington and 52nd Streets. (It's not quite as revealing as it could have been, though; see AllThereInTheManual above.)