As an explosive new movie about the life of Marilyn Monroe hits screens this week we can reveal the truth about the racy romances of the fifties-era’s so-called ‘Blonde Bombshells’.
The Netflix biopic, simply called Blonde, stars ex-Bond girl Ana de Armas, 34, as the iconic screen siren and is set to feature controversial scenes which include a threesome and oral sex.
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But Marilyn wasn’t the only one of the glamorous blonde stars favoured by cinema at the time to have had a rollercoaster love life.
Here JAMES MOORE reveals some of the Hollywood stars’ sensational secrets…
Marilyn Monroe
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The new movie charts how the star went from a traumatic childhood as Norma Jeane to movie sex symbol in flicks like The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot.
But it also reveals her issues with drug addiction, exploitation, and a seriously complicated love life.
By the time she became a Hollywood megastar Marilyn had already been married once – at 16 – and divorced. She would later appear nude in Playboy magazine.
It’s said she dated Charlie Chaplin Jr and Edward G. Robinson Jr, but there’s no evidence – as shown in Blonde – they had a threesome, or that US President John F.Kennedy forced her to have oral sex with him – though many believe the pair did have an affair.
She was also linked to his brother Robert and dated actors Tony Curtis and Marlon Brando.
Marilyn also had two doomed marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.
The star died of an overdose in 1962 aged 36.
Jayne Mansfield
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The American star, above, shot to fame in films like The Wayward Bus and would become the first actress to appear naked in a major Hollywood film, Promises! Promises!
With a 40in bust, she also posed for Playboy magazine but was considered ‘too sexy’ for some advertisers.
Yet the mum-of-five, who lived in a pink LA mansion, was anything but the ‘dumb blonde’ she often portrayed on screen, boasting an IQ of 149 and able to speak five languages.
A pregnant teenage bride at 17, she would have three marriages and divorces, had a series of affairs including an alleged dalliance with John F. Kennedy. It’s even said she was involved with a satanic sex cult, before dying in a mysterious car crash aged 34 in 1967.
Grace Kelly
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Dubbed the ‘Ice Queen’ for her prim image on screen, the star of films like Rear Window and High Society, famously quit showbiz to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.
But during her movie heyday she enjoyed a steamy love life that involved flings with a string of co-stars including Gary Cooper, William Holden and Bing Crosby – who himself once caught her in bed with Marlon Brando.
She romped with Clark Gable while filming in the jungle saying: “What else is there to do if you’re alone in a tent in Africa with Clark Gable?”
Grace, left, was also linked to Frank Sinatra and even the Shah of Iran, with director Alfred Hitchcock famously describing her as a “snow-covered volcano.”
She died in 1982, aged 52, following a car crash.
Diana Dors
The Swindon-born beauty, right, who changed her name from Diana Mary Fluck, was known as Britain’s answer to Marilyn Monroe.
A singer and actress, she appeared in movies like Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Weak and the Wicked. The curvy star also released a raunchy 3D book of snaps and once modelled a fur bikini.
Off set she had a turbulent marriage to Dennis Hamilton, who beat Diana and stole her money, before divorcing. She married twice more, having two children.
Diana had affairs with the likes of film star Rod Steiger and most notoriously she also hosted sex parties with celebrity guests, featuring two-way mirrors and blue movies.
She once said: “I based my career on sex – on men, sex and money in that order”.
Diana died aged 52 in 1984 from ovarian cancer.
Lana Turner
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Nicknamed the ‘Sweater Girl’ for the figure-hugging top she wore on her acting debut, US born Lana scored a host of Hollywood hits with roles in films like The Bad and the Beautiful.
She also chalked up an incredible seven marriages – which all ended in divorce, and one relationship ended in tragedy. Mobster lover Johnny Stompanato became physically abusive and even tried to strangle her.
During a row in 1958, her daughter Cheryl stabbed him to death with a carving knife at her Beverley Hills home – with the killing later ruled justifiable homicide.
Lana died in 1995 aged 74.
Kim Novak
Best-known for 1958 flick Vertigo, with Jimmy Stewart, the American beauty, above, fell for a string of men who included the playboy son of a Dominican dictator, Ramfis Trujillo.
A relationship with Ocean’s 11 star Sammy Davis Jr came to an end after film boss Harry Cohn – worried that her relationship with a black man might be bad for business – sent mobsters to threaten him.
She was also linked to stars like Frank Sinatra who she described as a “very sexy guy.”
Kim left acting in 1966.
Now 89, she was married twice – her second husband dying in 2020.
Brigitte Bardot
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One biography claimed that the French star, famous for sexy roles in films like And God Created Woman, had 100 lovers.
Married four times, she admitted getting itchy feet in relationships: “I love, love, which is exactly the reason I was often unfaithful.
“In every relationship I would always run off in search of other loves when the present one became a little lukewarm.”
Brigitte, who once posed nude for Playboy and dated actor Warren Beatty and singer Sacha Distel, above, is now aged 87 and has been married to Bernard d’Ormale since 1992.
●Blonde is available to stream on Netflix from September 28.
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