HEY,
MARILYN--Sixty years
ago at midnight on September 11, 1954 film director Billy Wilder alerted the
media that a scene from “The Seven Year Itch” was going to be shot near the
corner of 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Photographers swarmed to the scene.
Even six decades later, film buffs from
around the world will immediately recognize the icon image of Marilyn standing
over a sidewalk grate. The air shooting
up from a passing subway train beneath the grate caused her dress to billow.
George Zimbel, then a 25-year old
photo agency photographer was assigned to the photo op. If you go to his website you will read an
eyewitness account of the session.
The image above was the one selected
by Wilder’s studio for publicity posters.
It was not snapped by Zimbel, however, his account written in 2000 is
entertaining.
Zimbel website: http://georgezimbel.com/collection/marilyn/
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