Marilyn Monroe Quotes
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Time. "Marilyn Monroe: The Blonde in the Bath." Time, 11 Aug. 1952, p. 44.
The President was being prepared for a press conference and was cautioned about a tough issue that might be the subject of inquiry.
Referring to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin:
The German born actress spent much of World War II entertaining U. S. troops at the front. A friend asked if she had ever slept with Dwight Eisenhower, then the Supreme Allied Commander.
See {618046} for an even earlier statement of this point.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2019) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, she continues to be a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Monroe sixth on its list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood.