31. Though she was typecast as a unintelligent blonde, Marilyn was known to have been shrewd businesswoman and was very intelligent. One rumor suggested she had a higher IQ than Albert Einstein, though no direct evidence exists to support this.
Though this IQ fact is unverifiable, it was said that Marilyn Monroe was quite smart. In this way, her persona as an unintelligent blonde was largely not true. Though she may have been troubled, she wasn’t necessarily dumb.
It’s a shame that she was cast that way in the public eye and in her movies.
