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It got torn at the Chinese laundry. That's how it happened.

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

You can hear this line at 00:16:20 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- I'll tell you what's the matter with me. I'm in love with you! That's what's the matter with me! I have been ever since the first day I came here. Deeply, madly, desperately, all-consumingly.

- And what am I to you? Nothing! Just a piece of furniture, a Dictaphone, 10 fingers to type your miserable letters with!

- Take a look at me. I'm a woman! A woman, do you hear? With flesh and blood and nerves and feelings! I'm in love with you! I need you! I want you! I want you!

- That will be all, Miss Morris.

- You remember that torn shirt, don't you, Helen? Well, now you know how it happened.

- It got torn at the Chinese laundry. That's how it happened.

- What an imagination!

- What you don't realize is this thing about women and me. I walk into a room, and they sense it instantly. I arouse something in them. I bother them. It's a kind of animal thing I've got. It's really quite extraordinary.

- The only extraordinary thing about you is your imagination.

- Last winter, when I had my appendix out, do you happen to remember the nurse?

- The nurse? You mean that sweet little old lady with the gray hair?

[...]

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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