The secret history of Marilyn Monroe's skirt moment

As if her story weren't tragic and fascinating enough, here's an illuminating secret history of Marilyn Monroe's skirt-raising scene from The Seven Year Itch.

There was a dark subtext to the comedy. Gathered at that late hour were hundreds of gawkers, almost all men, who catcalled and yelled things like, “Higher! Higher!” as Ms. Monroe’s dress blew up over her head. For two hours, the men watched from surrounding buildings and from the street.

“Unfortunately, one of them was her husband, Joe DiMaggio,” Mr. Wilder is quoted as saying in his biography, “Nobody’s Perfect.” “And he didn’t like what he saw, or what everyone else was seeing.”