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Hello, this is Kurt.

When you think of Marilyn Monroe, what is the first image that comes to mind?

There's a good chance, a very good chance, you're thinking of this.

Oh, do you feel the breeze from the subway?

Isn't it delicious?

That is the memorable scene from the seven-year itch in 1955.

Marilyn Monroe's character, known only as The Girl, walks over a New York City subway grate,

and the wind from a passing train beneath her makes her white dress billow up.

Lots of things are called iconic these days, but this shot really is.

The Snickers ad with Willem Defoe a year ago, a reference in the opening scene of La La Land, it really is everywhere.

The scene with Maryland was actually filmed twice, the first time on location in Midtown Manhattan,

late one night, but the director, Billy Wilder, decided to reshoot it later on a soundstage in Hollywood,

and that's the one that appears in the seven-year itch, that on-location footage has been lost to history.

But it turns out there is a film of that iconic shot being shot, and it's been hidden for 60-odd years, until now.

Bonnie Siegler is a graphic designer based in New York, and she is with me now to tell us about

how this was unearthed and came to be made.

Bonnie, thank you for coming in.

Thank you.

So this is like the greatest episode of Antiques Road Show ever.

It's true. First off, before we talk about the film and how it came to be and how you came to find it and all the side stories of that, tell me and us about your grandfather who lived most of life in Manhattan, and you grew up around him and with him.

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