(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 16, 1954.)
After two hours of having her dress blown above her head, while thousand cheered, Marilyn Monroe, accompanied by her baseball player husband, headed for International Airport last night for an early morning flight back to the Coast.
Miss Monroe’s exposure, for the sake of the movie which she has been filming here, took place atop a subway grating on Lexington Ave., near 51st St. Fifteen times, a high air blower blew her backless white dress sky high, exposing stockingless legs and ruffled white nylon panties.
Brief Sequence
First, for the minute and a half sequence in “The Seven Year Itch,” Marilyn’s stand-in, Gloria Mosolino, of 629 Park Ave., rehearsed the scene eight times between 12:20 A.M. yesterday and 1:45 A.M.
A crowd of some 2,000, perched on bar stools and atop parked cars, waited patiently for the main attraction. Then Miss Monroe took over, working the scene for two hours before the director was satisfied.
