"Forever Marilyn" Unveiled on the Magnificent Mile

Marilyn Monroe statue carries a spectacle across the decades

Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan in 1954.
July 15, 2011|Michael Phillips | Movie critic
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-15/entertainment/chi-talking-pictu...

26-foot sculpture by Seward Johnson known as "Forever Marilyn," unveiled Friday morning in Pioneer Court just north of the Michigan Avenue bridge.

"In three dimensions and delivering a lot more thigh and panties than its source material, Johnson's statue recreates the most famous moment from director Billy Wilder's "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), an adaptation of the George Axelrod stage comedy. Marilyn Monroe and co-star Tom Ewell exit a Manhattan movie theater showing "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" on a hot summer night. Standing on a subway grate at 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue, Monroe delights in the rush and the whoosh of the train below, the train causing the updraft that sends her white skirt billowing into both cinema and lechery history."

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[HorrorAngel666]

Fuck people obsessed with TV stars! Its no surprise this country is full of very very low IQ people.

[dogstar7]

@HorrorAngel666 Adjust your meds.

[Svetlana5440]

Какой ужасный памятник , что лучше не нашлось идеи или у автора проблемы и комплексы какие-то ......

[dogstar7]

@Svetlana5440 It's from scene in a film that was written from a Broadway play.

[salmanc1]

I think thats pretty awesome. But she looks old for some reason.

[dogstar7]

@salmanc1 I think it's the Granny panties.

[Texasjim2007]

Anybody with nicknames like "mufti anonamous": or "horror angel 666" should not be getting judgmental about other people's sexual fantasies since their own are probably far creepier and more disgusting to most people than anything that Marilyn Monroe ever did. It's none of their damn business to dictate what other people's kids see since we all know the neo-puritan feminist thought police hate kids unlike Marilyn who always wanted to be a mother,

[MultiAnonymous187]

@HorrorAngel666 Your so right, the idiots that think this is cool, it's disgusting. This bitch has been dead for how long ? People need to let it go, little kids don't need to see this, it's over the top, too much but any thing goes now days.

[TheChiGaby]

How perfect that she's here in the Windy City :)

[Itubeyoutootoday]

Great actress, but the statue is too much...

[Svetlana5440]

Спасибо Вам за ВАШ  полезный , огромный труд !!!

[maggieg19672]

dude that thing is wiked

thank god i can go downtown to see it myself