Another passion in Marilyn's life. Who would have thought?

Everyone knows Marilyn Monroe as the legendary Hollywood blonde and the sex symbol of the era, but what was really hidden behind the image of a frivolous girl?

To the attention of passionate fans of Monroe, she was not a blonde, but the most brunette. In addition, with a very high level of intelligence, just the image on the screen obliged her to be a frivolous blondie with a very beautiful body. Presidents don't fall in love with just anyone. Marilyn was a successful businesswoman (she created her own production company - Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc.), understood politics and passionately loved literature and poetry.

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1. Marilyn knew that fans saw only part of the picture in her, which may be why she suffered such acute bouts of depression.

2. Once she opened up in an interview with French journalist Georges Belmont: “Yes, I may not have graduated from the university, but I never stopped educating myself. I took a history course and read the works of many legendary writers, ”said Monroe.

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4. Monroe is usually seen in sexy poses or seductive clothes in the pictures, she is certainly chic, but there was another part of the actress that only a few photographers snatched.

6. One of the most honest photos was taken by photographer Eva Arnold: she caught Marilyn while reading a book. When she asked what book it was, it turned out that Monroe had read James Joyce's Ulysses, one of the most difficult texts in world fiction to understand.

5. “She said she kept Ulysses in her car and had been reading it for quite some time,” recalled Eva Arnold. She said she liked the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to better understand its meaning, but found it difficult to do so. She couldn't read it consistently. When we stopped at a local playground to take photos, she pulled out a book and started reading while I loaded the film. Of course I took a picture of her."

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8. The combination of a book and an amazingly beautiful woman is truly rare.

9. It breaks the stereotype. At first you see only a beautiful body, but then you look much deeper.

10. Marilyn's library consisted of about four hundred books. They include classics such as John Milton, Gustav Flaubert and Kahlil Gibran, as well as contemporary writers including Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett and Jack Kerouac. In addition, there were many historical books, including a six-volume book about the life of Abraham Lincoln.

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