#43: All This and Brains Too?
Marilyn Monroe rose to fame in the fifties thanks to her charm, her grace, her good looks, and immense talent and she remains an American cultural icon to this day. While she was an accomplished actress, she was largely seen as a blonde bombshell and usually typecast as the ‘dumb blonde’.
In order to be taken seriously, it is rumored she took an IQ and received a score of 168- higher than physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking- two of the most brilliant men in human history. Of course, no form of proof was ever provided, and it remains a myth to this day- but we’d like to this it’s true! She had all that going for her and brains too- it’s not hard to believe.