Bimbo?

I guess it isn't a real word..but I could have sworn I thought it is, don't know where I got that from.

Cherie in "Bus Stop" and Miss Laurel" in "Monkey Business" were the only truly "dumb" roles MM ever played. Cherie is, as the script points out, "an ignorant hillbilly." That's how she plays it. Marilyn's other roles were were not stupid girls, sometimes naive, or sometimes rather, yes, manipulative. (Who was more brilliant than Lorelei Lee?!) She is actually very bright indeed in "The Prince and the Showgirl." And not a gold-digger, for once. (It's a brilliant performance, but trapped in a very dull mvoie.)

And is totally intelligent and normal in "Let's Make Love." An attractive, amiable, sympathetic young woman.(Another very good performance in another very poor film.

One of her early roles, "Clash By Night" showed her as combative and rough, a poor girl not taking crap from anybody--certainly not her boyfriend.

And she is insane, not dumb in "Don't Bother To Knock."