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I got $25 an hour, and it took hours and hours. You'd be surprised.

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

You can hear this line at 00:39:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It was so silly. I posed for this picture. And when it was published in U.S. Camera, they got all upset.

- Well, what was the matter with the picture?

- I was... It was one of these artistic pictures.

- It was on the beach, with some driftwood. It got honorable mention.

- Honorable mention, in U.S. Camera? Well!

- It was called Textures, because you could see three different kinds of texture: the driftwood, the sand and me.

- I got $25 an hour, and it took hours and hours. You'd be surprised.

- Sounds like a very interesting line of work.

- It was.

- But I don't do modeling anymore. Now I'm on this television program every other week - The Dazzledent Toothpaste Hour.

- Oh, you're an actress then.

- Sort of. I do the commercial part.

- Really?

- Honest. It's a very good part.

- First they put a little gray makeup on my teeth to show what happens when you use ordinary toothpaste. Then they wipe it off again to show what happens when you use Dazzledent.

- I kind of sit there like this for about 14 seconds. And I get to speak lines too.

[...]

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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