Billy Wilder's Seven-Year Hitch

Billy Wilder's Seven-Year Hitch

Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe in the classic subway-grate scene from The Seven Year Itch, 1955. Director Billy Wilder wanted sex in Marilyn Monroe’s comedy about infidelity—but Hollywood’s prohibitive censorship rules wouldn’t allow it By Scott Tobias One of the patterns that emerges in Conversations With Wilder, a delightfully candid 1999 interview book that the director Cameron Crowe did with his film-making hero, Billy Wilder, is that Wilder t…