The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe: Genius IQ?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Marilyn Monroe was the ultimate bombshell. This week she would have turned 100 years old, but she’s still the iconic sex symbol of mid 20th century Hollywood. Despite her carefully crafted dumb blonde persona, she was also wildly intelligent. She had a library filled with books by authors like James Joyce and Dostoevsky. So . . how did she use that intelligence and what was her Achilles heel?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, when you think of the all-time iconic blonde bombshell, it's got to be Marilyn Monroe. |
| 0:05.9 | Her magnetism goes beyond sex appeal. |
| 0:08.8 | Men and women are drawn to her. |
| 0:11.7 | And believe it or not, that's still the case, almost 65 years after her death. |
| 0:16.9 | This week, Marilyn would have turned 100 years old. |
| 0:20.3 | What still makes her so intriguing is her complexity? |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Patty Steele. What did Marilyn Monroe and Einstein have in common? That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:34.7 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:38.7 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:42.2 | The backstory is back. |
| 0:45.4 | She was born 100 years ago this week. |
| 0:50.3 | The vast majority of us weren't even alive when she died 64 years ago. |
| 0:53.5 | Yet Marilyn Monroe has never left our consciousness. Even the most recent polls always place |
| 0:56.6 | her at number one when people are asked who they think was the most iconic blonde bombshell |
| 1:01.7 | ever. No contest. That platinum blonde hair, that killer body, those shiny red lips, and that |
| 1:08.9 | voice that sounded like a delicate purr. All of that is what most people |
| 1:14.2 | envision when they think of Maryland. But wait a minute, there's more. There have been a lot of |
| 1:19.8 | killer blondes in the hundred plus years that Hollywood has been around. What made Maryland different? |
| 1:25.7 | So incredibly iconic. It goes a whole lot deeper than the facade. |
| 1:30.8 | It was her complexity as a human being that made her irresistible. |
| 1:35.8 | What most people don't realize about her was how carefully she crafted her image. |
| 1:40.8 | Born in 1926, she was named Norma Jean Mortensen on her birth certificate, later changed to Norma Jean Baker. |
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