Hollywood’s S*x Siren Marilyn Monroe Only Wanted to Sleep With Men Over 50, Made a List

Norma Jean Baker who rose to fame as the iconic Marilyn Monroe, had Hollywood at the palm of her hand in the 1950s with her drop dead good looks and sizzling s*xuality. Popularly known as the “blonde bombshell”, Monroe was considered the industry’s s*x symbol and a pioneer of a new revolution of desire amidst men. The actor-singer had a turbulent personal life that led to her untimely demise at the young age of 36 owing to substance overdose.

While Monroe’s life and death was a very public affair, there are still lesser known facts about the gorgeous star that presented an interesting insight into a side of her that not many people were aware of. Among her various undisclosed secrets, Marilyn Monroe reportedly made a list of all the men than she wanted to sleep with.

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Marilyn Monroe’s List Of Desirable Men

While Marilyn Monroe’s life was out there for everyone to see, there were many details about her that were kept hidden from the public. Monroe was once roommates with actor Shelley Winters who revealed some interesting information about the star. According to Winters, the two women kept a list of all the men that they found desirable and therefore worthy to sleep with. The All About Eve actor had a specific pattern to her list which only consisted of older men including a famous scientist. To quote Winters,

“There was no one under 50 on hers. I never got to ask her before she died how much of her list she had achieved, but on her list was Albert Einstein, and after her death, I noticed that there was a silver-framed photograph of him on her white piano.”

While her choice of Einstein indicated that she was a lover of intellect, Monroe’s desire for older men was proved with her marriage to Arthur Miller who was 10 years her senior.

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Marilyn Monroe Was An Avid Reader

Marilyn Monroe’s physical appearance led people down the path of stereotypical behavior with many considering the actor to be all beauty and no brains. But the star proved everyone wrong with her keen interest in the written word. At the time of her death, Monroe reportedly owned more than 400 volumes of books with many of them being first editions. It was also said that the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes actor’s favourite images of herself were the ones in which she was seen reading. Answering a director’s question about her love for books and how she chose R.M. Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Monroe replied,

“On nights when I’ve got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard. And I just open books at random—or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?”

With her love for books and intellectual talk, Marilyn Monroe proved to her detractors that she was no ordinary woman.

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Source: Mental Floss