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That indelible image of Marilyn Monroe standing over the subway grating with her skirt blown waist-high by the wind comes from this Billy Wilder gem. Monroe stars as the innocent sexpot upstairs who drives the oafish summer-bachelor downstairs out of his gourd.
This article appears in May 9 • 2003.
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