hmm...I must be a Misfit myself! I was in my eary 20s when MM died, and even after 7-8 years of being prime MM audience, I just never took to that persona she projected. That bit of singing 'Happy Birthday' to JFK embarasses me to this day.

She may indeed have had more talent/intelligence than was immediately apparent, but that breathy vamping didn't move me! (I was temporarily in love lust with Brigette Bardot, but by & large 'movie starlets' were not my cuppa tea.)

as Amos says, "de gustibus"