eternalmarilynmonroe:

yelyahwilliams:

psychohippie:

color-me-chaotic:

elizabitchtaylor:

This line was ad-libbed by Marilyn… telling, isn’t it.

She was a creative contributor, too. When a character tells Lorelei that he’d heard she was dumb, she answers, “I can be smart when it’s important, but most men don’t like it.“ This line, added at Monroe’s direct suggestion, was “her own sly riposte to the prevailing sexism of the 1950s,” Monroe biographer Donald Spoto declares. x

YES

“It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde”- Marilyn Monroe