Even if you've never seen a Marilyn Monroe film before, it's more than likely that you've seen her most iconic image. You know the one: the bubbly blonde standing over a subway grate, laughingly trying to tame the white halter dress billowing up over her knees. Culminating in a perfect display of playfully oblivious seduction, the image has become synonymous with the Old Hollywood star, inspiring controversial statues and countless imitations decades after it was taken.

It was September 15, 1954, when Monroe struck her famous pose during the filming of Billy Wilder's "The Seven Year Itch" – a romantic comedy in which she starred as a charmingly dim-witted blonde known simply as "The Girl." Surrounded by a sea of cameras, photographer Sam Shaw captured the historic moment in which a 28-y

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