talesfromweirdland: “Marilyn Monroe on the set of Niagara (1953). The shape of her cigarette and her vaguely delighted expression make me wonder if she perhaps was smoking something a little more spicy than just tobacco. Believing Marilyn Monroe was...

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Niagara (1953). The shape of her cigarette and her vaguely delighted expression make me wonder if she perhaps was smoking something a little more spicy than just tobacco.

Believing Marilyn Monroe was a dumb blonde is as silly as believing Al Pacino is actually a tough mob boss. As her writings show, she was astute, observant, funny, well-read, and very sensitive to the world around her. “They’ll eat her alive,” said Evelyn Keyes, ex-wife of director John Huston, ominously but prophetically.