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How do you wrap a paddle anyway? Paper and string. What else? Now, where can I get a piece of paper the shape of a paddle?

12 seconds sound clip from the The Seven Year Itch (1952) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:25:51 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Normal. Everything is absolutely normal.

- Sleep. Go to sleep. How can I possibly sleep?

- What'll I do? Helen. Write a letter to Helen. Write a long letter to Helen.

- The paddle. That's it. Got to send the paddle. Little Ricky up there in the middle of the lake without a paddle.

- Wrap the paddle and send it off the first thing in the morning. Little Ricky needs the paddle. Got to have his paddle. Going to get his paddle!

- How do you wrap a paddle anyway? Paper and string. What else? Now, where can I get a piece of paper the shape of a paddle?

- All right, nothing.

- Hey. There's some gauze in the bathroom. I could bandage the whole thing, put some adhesive tape on it and... And what? Send it up in an ambulance?

- Let's see. Oh, this is ridiculous. People send paddles every day. The mails are full of paddles. How do they do it?

- That's it! Old newspapers. Big deal. Old newspapers. Get a lot of string, slap it together...

- Hi! Forgot about the stairs. Isn't that silly? It was so easy. I just pulled out the nails.

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The Seven Year Itch (1952) Sound Clip

The Seven Year Itch (1952) Poster

Get a dose of Marilyn Monroe's charm with sound bites from The Seven Year Itch (1952) film, adapted from George Axelrod's play.

Actors: Marilyn Monroe (The Girl), Tom Ewell (Richard Sherman), Evelyn Keyes (Helen Sherman), Robert Strauss (Kruhulik), Sonny Tufts (Tom MacKenzie)

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