Daryl Hannah itching to be like Marilyn

Daryl Hannah will take on the role made famous by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch in a West End stage production.

The show's producer said that Hannah would star in a new production of the George Axelrod comedy on which the 1955 film was based.

Hannah, 39, will not recreate the movie's legendary scene in which Monroe's skirt billows as she stands over a grate.

"Daryl is not a Monroe impersonator," producer Laurence Myers said.

The play, which will open in October, tells the story of a middle-aged married man who fantasises about the girl next door while he is alone in the city for the summer.