“A warm draft from the subway ventilator shaft is enough to turn Marilyn into the most exotic butterfly in history. Director Billy Wilder’s brilliant idea, with its mixture of erotic fantasy and the dream of being weightless and able to fly, transcends the mere tomboy eroticism of a sensation-seeking public. Film still for The Seven Year Itch, September 15th, 1954.” – Schirmer’s Visual Library, Marilyn Monroe Photographs 1945-1962
Read more about the filming of Marilyn’s most iconic movie scene in The Guardian, and another perspective from Melissa Stevens – granddaughter of Sam Shaw, who captured the moment – on Biography.com.