"It started in 1941 when he was a photojournalist. ... It was during World War II, and he photographed these young women and sailors, who were on a break in Coney Island. He took these photographs of women standing over the grates in Coney Island, and the wind is blowing their skirts up. And one of these images appeared on the cover of a magazine called Friday in 1941."
"So fast-forward to 1954, Sam was hired to be the still photographer for 'The Seven Year Itch,' Stevens shared. He read the script, and there's a line where Marilyn is coming out of a movie theater. She walks over the grate, and a subway car is passing underneath. And then there's this wind. The line in the script is something like, 'Oh, do you feel the breeze? Isn't it delicious?'"
A gust of wind from a New York City subway grate lifted Marilyn Monroe's white dress, producing the iconic image from The Seven Year Itch. Photographer Sam Shaw had earlier photographed Coney Island in 1941, capturing women over grates during World War II and placing one image on a magazine cover. Hired as the film's still photographer in 1954, Shaw recognized the scripted grate moment, repurposed his earlier composition to stage the shot, and the resulting photograph became a far larger public event than he anticipated.
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