The Seven Year Itch (play)

The Seven Year Itch
Paulette Girard and Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch (1952)
Written by	George Axelrod
Date premiered	November 20, 1952
Place premiered	Fulton Theatre New York City
Original language	English
Subject	Fidelity
Genre	Comedy
Setting	The apartment of the Richard Shermans, in the Gramercy Park section of New York City. Present time.

The Seven Year Itch is a 1952 three-act play written by George Axelrod. The original Broadway production starred Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown.

The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists.^[1]

The play was filmed in 1955 as The Seven Year Itch, directed and co-written by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe and Ewell, reprising his Broadway role.