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The Seven Year Itch
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1983
- IMDb #2281
- Rotten Tomatoes #1679
- Letterboxd #2978
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1695
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2162
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 84. Critics average 84, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →With his family away for the summer, a publishing executive's vows of fidelity are tested when a beautiful and uninhibited model moves into the apartment upstairs. His imagination runs wild with fantasies of an affair, leading to a series of comedic and awkward situations.
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Billy Wilder, George Axelrod
- Based on
- The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod
- Released
- 3 June 1955
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $12.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →1 major award won · 1 win from 4 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Golden Globe Award 1956 | Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Tom Ewell | Winner |
| BAFTA Award 1956 | Best Foreign Actress | Marilyn Monroe | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Award 1956 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Billy Wilder | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America Award 1956 | Best Written Comedy | Billy Wilder and George Axelrod | Nominee |
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4 awards — The Seven Year Itch
×| Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Tom Ewell | Winner |
| Best Foreign Actress | Marilyn Monroe | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Billy Wilder | Nominee |
| Best Written Comedy | Billy Wilder and George Axelrod | Nominee |