Oh come on PeterT--who wouldn't expect Arthur Miller to have claimed Marilyn was smarter than she looked? At the time of their relationship, the book and theatre world mocked those sorts of aging male (fill in the blank with profession here) marries Hollywood starlet sorts of "meaningful" relationships.

The woman was only 36 years old when she died, and you are claiming her 'Misfits' role was a brilliant performance about the her "aging" was heartbreaking??? Oh please. Maudlin, yes, heartbreaking--well, we'll just have to agree to vociferously disagree.

But this whole myth that Monroe's vulvability--oh excuse me--vulnerability. Just how is a self-made Hollywood screen star, who found her way into the circles of power, including sleeping her way into the White House, supposed to be so damn vulnerable? She had all the power a woman who is willing to sleep and manipulate their way to the top could have. That doesn't sound like a defenseless waif to me.

I loved 'Some Like It Hot' but not for her role in it. But the roles of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are classic. A number of Hollywood actresses of the era could have played that part every bit as well, and a few them, quite a bit better, than Monroe's campy character...IMNSHO, of course.